Sentences with phrase «mass pet food brands»

What's more, grocery and mass pet food brands have jumped on the latest pet food trends by introducing an increasing number of value - added and natural products.

Not exact matches

This is, by far, the biggest question on the minds of most independent pet retailers today as some key brands, particularly in the pet food category, seek their fortunes on the shelves of mass - market retailers or in the automatic reorder queues of e-commerce juggernauts like Wag.com.

Also opening the door for Ark Naturals was the fact that Iams, once the pet specialty world's biggest food brand, had jumped into the mass and grocery channel after being acquired by Procter & Gamble.

Last week, Blue Buffalo became the latest channel - hopping pet food brand with the announcement that it would start selling «a subset» of its BLUE Life Protection Formula (LPF) line in mass and grocery stores like Target, Kroger, Meijer and Publix.

This give our brands additional recognition without the discounting that comes with the mass channel.The independents have been very critical in the growth of our labels, and we have held true to our word by not selling to the large pet specialty retailers, such as Petco and PetSmart, or other large players in pet food such as Wal - Mart, Target and Tractor Supply, to name a few.

This has become increasingly important as big - box stores and mass retailers have begun incorporating more and more food brands that were once the exclusive domain of independent pet specialty retailers.

When consumers realized the business was a pet products store, they asked for the big, well - known brands of food that they were buying from other pet specialty or from food and mass retailers.

Unlike Mutschler, Margedant has chosen to eschew many of the food brands that can be found in mass and big - box pet stores — not because of concerns about pricing, but because he does not feel that those foods fit his carefully constructed brand.