A large turnout of pet food professionals and companies at Petfood Forum 2022, plus positive vibes, were further signs of pet food’s resilience and strength.
Finding and keeping good employees is rooted in a pet food company’s management culture, and that ethos can be focused and improved to boost retention of skilled, experienced workers. Pet food companies aren’t the only cultures changing, though.
Erie Molded Plastics and its EMP Closures division are rebranding.
Darling Ingredients acquires FASA.
It could. And the manufacturer isn’t required to tell you.
Camil Alimentos of Brazil offered to buy the pet food business of Empresas Iansa in January 2020, but recently announced it is no longer making the purchase.
Due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the domestic pet food market is dealing with falling pet food imports, price increases and pet stores at risk of closing.
Purina makes some amazing claims on their website, but did not provide validation for those claims.
Some of the violations involved rusty meat hooks, pest feces on bags of finished dog chews, or blood and raw flesh splashed onto finished dog chews.
After attending Petfood Forum a few years ago, one executive with meat processing equipment maker Marel decided to discuss moving the company into pet food production machinery.