Demographic headwinds to canine inhabitants development
April 1, 2023 – David Sprinkle
Whereas forecasts can have brief shelf lives, being overtaken by unexpected occasions, there’s no query that the U.S. economic system and American households have been buffeted by COVID-19 shutdowns and diseases, patches of job insecurity regardless of low unemployment charges and file value inflation solely partially offset by wage will increase.
When pet meals M&A focuses on the M, not the A
April 5, 2023 – Debbie Phillips-Donaldson
Possession modifications between two corporations sometimes fall below the phrase “mergers and acquisitions,” however not less than in pet meals, “acquisition” is the phrase most frequently in play, with one occasion shopping for the opposite. That’s one purpose why the current announcement concerning the Pure Steadiness Pet Meals and Canidae Pet Meals deal is fascinating: It’s a real merger of the businesses, in response to executives of each.
U.S. pet meals inflation on downward pattern?
April 13, 2023 – Debbie Phillips-Donaldson
The opposite day, I occurred to overhear a dialog between two folks commiserating concerning the value of a giant bag of pet food—a typical chorus prior to now yr. But new U.S. pet meals inflation information for March 2023 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) exhibits a slight decline yr over yr (YOY) from March 2022, maybe signaling that aid could also be on the horizon. Whether or not it’s simply the close to horizon or a part of a longer-term outlook stays to be seen.
DCM-pet meals analysis welcome, factors to want for extra
April 19, 2023 – Debbie Phillips-Donaldson
Grain-free pet meals first hit the market greater than 20 years in the past, possible impressed by no- and low-carb diets in human meals; this was additionally concerning the time that humanization of pets was beginning to take off. By no means thoughts that there was no analysis then (and there nonetheless isn’t) displaying that the elements faraway from pet meals labeled as grain free—corresponding to corn, wheat and soy—didn’t profit pets nutritionally or in any other case. Or that grain-free merchandise did confer any explicit advantages.
The continued seek for new pet meals protein sources
April 27, 2023 – Debbie Phillips-Donaldson
With pet meals so intently linked to human meals, I subscribe to and skim a number of newsletters associated to the latter class. Perusing a current article on Bloomberg.com by Coco Liu a couple of potential new kind of other protein for people, a considerably off-hand sentence towards the tip caught my eye: “The corporate goals to promote the powder as a protein booster to factories manufacturing aquatic feed and pet fare earlier than increasing its providing to suppliers of human-grade meals.”
