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Consumer Trends
Pre-registration opens for 2014 International Production & Processing Expo
Attendee and exhibitor pre-registration and hotel registration for the 2014 International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) is now open. The show will be held Tuesday-Thursday, January 28-30, 2014, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Brand Insights
5 Ways to Prepare your Facility for AI Implementation
Easy Automation, Inc.
Learn five key areas to target when laying the groundwork for a potential AI implementation at your facility. Brand Insights from Easy Automation, Inc.
Consumer Trends
Packaging update: The latest materials, machines and services for petfood
Petfood and treat manufacturers want their packaging to reflect awareness for health, pet pampering and the environment, as well as a focus on consumer convenience, according to the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies (PMMI). To remain competitive and grow market share, petfood manufacturers should be rethinking their package designs by focusing on package shape, closures and convenience features, says PMMI.
Consumer Trends
Market trends: Petfood consumer spending habits
Let’s look at US retail trends critically and discover more about where and why pet owners are buying petfood. Then, using what we find, you can prepare your products and brand to continue to buoy the industry with proper placement in retail channels and on the shelf.
Consumer Trends
Global market update: Emerging petfood segments
According to Euromonitor International, established petfood markets in the US, Japan, Brazil and the UK continue to rule with their retail dominance, but newcomers like Russia, Italy and India are lining up for their very own share from the global petfood bowl. Rising disposable incomes in emerging markets like India and China, coupled with rapid growth in Russia, Ukraine, Indonesia and Vietnam have these regions ready to play a much bigger role in the worldwide petfood and treat market in the upcoming years.
Consumer Trends
Extrusion processing course registration available
Those interested in learning the latest in ingredient innovations and equipment usage in extrusion processing should attend the International Grains Program's annual Extrusion Processing course. The hands-on training opportunity is scheduled for August 13-16, 2013 at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan.
Consumer Trends
Mars Petcare focuses on pet health, nutrition in new marketing campaign
Mars Petcare is making health and nutrition a priority for its Pedigree, Whiskas, Cesar and Sheba petfood brands to focus more on the emotional connection people feel with their pets. The petfood maker is hoping the plan will lead to advertising that sets the brands apart from traditional petfood marketing campaigns and compete more directly with P&G's Iams brand.
Consumer Trends
What does latest big petfood company merger mean for the industry?
It's become almost a cliche to characterize the petfood and pet care markets as "recession resilient," but the fact is, these industries have weathered the strong economic headwinds of the past five years better than most consumer goods industries, with continued global annual growth of about 4%. That fact has not gone unnoticed by investment funds and the overall private equity community, as noted by Pets International magazine and Cascadia Capital, an independent investment bank that includes petfood and other pet product companies among its investments and transactions.
Consumer Trends
Are current petfood trends healthy or sustainable?
It's a business axiom that to succeed, you have to meet customers' needs. But when it comes to feeding pets, is that always true?
Consumer Trends
Nutritional sustainability offers opportunities for petfood
Petfood is unique in many ways. As an industry, it straddles the consumer packaged goods world as well as the feed industry from which it sprang. From a regulatory perspective, its products and processes do not fall under regulations for human foods but often do not quite fit within feed regulations, due to the fact that humans often directly handle petfood.
Poultry
2013 poultry nutrition survey offers mixed views
Members of the poultry feed industry continue to wrestle with high grain costs while simultaneously working to increase profits and meet consumer demands for “no”—no antibiotics, no hormones, and no animal byproducts in animal feed. The results of this year’s WATT Nutrition and Feed Survey reflect those challenges.
Consumer Trends
2013 poultry nutrition survey offers mixed views
Members of the poultry feed industry continue to wrestle with high grain costs while simultaneously working to increase profits and meet consumer demands for “no”—no antibiotics, no hormones, and no animal byproducts in animal feed. The results of this year’s WATT Nutrition and Feed Survey reflect those challenges.
Consumer Trends
Tyson chicken segment thriving; beef, pork, face challenges
Tyson Foods executives say the chicken segment of their company is thriving, and they are optimistic that increased focus on value-added poultry products will be a key component to the company’s growth.
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