🐾Petfood Forum Events

Final Kansas City partner visit! The Petfood Forum team visited KC this week for strategic meetings ahead of the 2025 event, and visited the offices of one of our sponsor partners Wenger Manufacturing, LLC. Thanks to Dustin Willey for the show around. 🙂 Be sure to follow this page and bookmark the Petfood Forum website for news about Petfood Forum 2025: https://lnkd.in/eKZaak7 #petfoodforum

More fun in Kansas City! The Petfood Forum team visited KC this week for strategic meetings ahead of the 2025 event, and visited the offices of one of our sponsor partners Extru-Tech. Thanks to Rachel Cardwell, Norm Schmitt and Thomas Scott for their time. Be sure to follow this page and bookmark the Petfood Forum website for news about Petfood Forum 2025: https://lnkd.in/eKZaak7 #petfoodforum Schmitt Norm

Fun in Kansas City! The WATT Global Media Petfood Team is on site for strategic planning and meetings for Petfood Forum 2025, and took a tour at Fairview Mills/KC Treats while they were there. Thanks to Wade Willming and Troy Kramer for your time today! Curious about Petfood Forum 2025? Follow us on this LinkedIn channel, and bookmark our website: https://lnkd.in/eKZaak7 #petfoodforum #pettreats

📸 Petfood Forum 2024 Flashback! We're looking back each week this summer at the amazing time we had in Kansas City in April with all of you. Check back, and like or comment if you're in our photos! This week: The Monday night Opening Reception is always a blast! 2024 attendees hugged old friends, ate dinner with new connections, and enjoyed a lovely spring evening in downtown Kansas City while a jazz trio kept things lively. Thank you to the 2024 Opening Reception sponsors for their support: Extru-Tech, MGB Ingredients, Schenck Process Food and Performance Materials, Shick Esteve and Coperion. 2025 details coming soon. Bookmark the Petfood Forum website now: https://lnkd.in/eKZaak7 #petfoodforum Kansas City Power & Light District

It's National Kitten Day! Enjoy every moment on your kitten's journey. 🐾 #nationalkittenday #petfoodforum

📸 Petfood Forum 2024 Flashback! We're looking back each week this summer at the amazing time we had in Kansas City in April with all of you. Check back, and like or comment if you're in our photos! This week: Petfood Essentials one day seminar kicked off 2024's event with the hot topics of pet treats and supplements. Attendees heard from experts throughout the day, and then used those takeaways to work in teams to create their own pet treat products. Education + connections for the win! Thank you to the 2024 Petfood Essentials sponsors for their support: Balchem Animal Nutrition and Health, California Safe Soil, Extru-Tech, Hiperbaric High Pressure Technologies, Midwest Laboratories, Parker Freeze Dry, a division of ProForm Fabrication, LLC, The Peterson Company, and Sonac (by Darling Ingredients). 2025 details coming soon. Bookmark the Petfood Forum website now: https://lnkd.in/eKZaak7 #petfoodforum

Happy 4th of July from all of us at Petfood Forum Events and Petfood Industry! Enjoy the long weekend ahead with family and friends, and secure your pets during the fireworks! 🍔 🌭 🎇 #petfoodforum #petfoodindustry

NEW EPISODE: What's going on with pet food customer shopping trends these days? Featuring Kathy Risch, SVP of shopper insights and thought leadership for Acosta Group 🎧 Live links online, in Spotify, SoundCloud or your favorite podcast platform! Join Petfood Industry magazine Editor Lindsay Beaton every other Wednesday as she interviews industry experts and covers hot topics affecting the world of pet food. If pet food is your thing and you want to know what’s trending, tune in! #petfood #petfoodindustry #podcast #consumertrends 

➡️ Access the 11 recap articles: https://lnkd.in/ghSKSaqy Catching up on some biz reading over the holiday weekend? Here are 11 things we learned during the educational sessions at Petfood Forum 2024 in April: 1️⃣ How to start sustainability from square one in the pet food industry 2️⃣ 3 hacks to clear clutter and increase innovation 3️⃣ Pet treat brands can capitalize on human snacking trends 4️⃣ 7 insect-based pet food health benefits beyond nutrition 5️⃣ 5 questions for successful new pet treat development 6️⃣ How to keep up with pet owner sustainability demand changes 7️⃣ 6 approaching mindset trends to turbocharge your pet food business 8️⃣ Antelopes are novel, mushrooms are functional pet food ingredients 9️⃣ 6 hazards of emerging concern in pet food 1️⃣0️⃣ Women in Petfood Leadership: 3 keys to leading with confidence and authority 1️⃣1️⃣ Innovations in pet food processing for optimization and efficiencies #petfoodforum

Petfood Forum 2024 coverage: 6 hazards of emerging concern in pet food Read the recap: https://lnkd.in/gkZqa2vM As novel ingredients are increasingly added to pet food diets, more hazards from these ingredients also emerge, according to Tim Lombardo, senior director for food consulting services at EAS Consulting Group, LLC, who spoke April 30 at 2024 Petfood Forum in Kansas City, Missouri. #petfoodforum