The Foreign Pet And Pet Food Situation

(A)America's pets and pet food status
2004 data show that Canada's population was about 3280 million, in which had about 7 million dogs and about 8 million cat. There were about 296 million people in the United States, 62% of them households own one pet at least, and the data increased of 56% over 1988. And there were 78 million cats and 65 million dogs in America.
In the past 10 years, the size of the economy in American increased two times and the annual income reached $ 34 billion. 2005, the United States spent $ 35 billion on the pets, including pet food and pet care supplies about $ 22.2 billion. And 2006 reached nearly $ 37 billion. The pet food is still the largest part of the market, sold of $ 14.7 billion (42% of the total market in 2005). However, generally speaking, the rate of growth of the U.S. pet food slight decrease. 2011 pet consumption rate was lower than 41%, and the growth rate of pet products increased.
2003 statistics show that the structure and sales of pet food in the United States, dog food retail sales reached $ 8.5 billion, a year-on-year growth of 4.5%; cat food retail sales reached approximately $ 4.5 billion, a year-on-year growth of 6.2%. In the food category, the wet dog and cat food retail sales of over $ 3.2 billion including $ 1.4 billion dog foods and $ 1.8 billion of cat foods, dry dog and cat food retail sales of over 7.7 billion dollars which 5.2 billion dollars of dog food, 2.5 billion dollars of cat food. What’s more, snack sales grew rapidly, the total sales in 2003 reached approximately 1.7 billion dollars which 1.6 billion dollars of dog food, $ 188.6 million of cat food,), year-on-year growth of 7.9% and 12.7%, respectively. Semi food, however, showed a downward trend. In 2004, the soft, dry and semi-moist dog food retail sales were down 2.8% and 0.4%, semi-moist cat food retail sales of $ 52.1 million, a year-on-year decline of 2.3%.
On the brand ,Pedigree wet dog food, the Nestl dry dog food, Friskies Buffet Cat Chow dry cat food, cat Pounce brand with snacks, and Nestle Purina occupied the major market.

(B)the European status of pets and pet food
according to 2004 statistics, in addition to 4700 million cats, 41 million dogs, 35 million birds, 9 million aquatic animals and 6 million other rodents, small mammals and reptiles has now become the market important consumer objects in Europe. The recent trends show that the number of dogs is more stable or decreased slightly, while the number of cats is increasing. For example, in the UK, the total number of dogs is relatively stable, the total number of cats in 1993 for the first time more than the total number of dogs. After the highest value of the total number of dogs in 1990, representing a fall after 1992, however, there is phenomenon of a rebound in recent years.
In 2002 statistics, the pet food sales in Western Europe reached 30.5% of world sales, totally $ 14.03 billion. In terms of number, the UK is still the largest pet food market in the EU, followed by Germany and France. For dry pet food, the growth rate of the UK market is only a medium level, and the actual sales growth rate is less than 1% in Germany and France. Conversely, in Italy and Spain, the average annual sales of pet dry food reached 11% to 12%.

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