Japanese cat owners spend about 5,029 yen a month on cat food, up 760 yen since 2024, while dog food averages 5,312 yen, a Cross Marketing survey of 5,000 adults found. Ownership is flat at 21% and pet insurance covers 57% of dog owners against 29% of cat owners.
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Tmall counted 95 brands from 14 industries in its pet category during Double 11 2026, with nearly 90% keeping or raising pet investment and 20% running standalone pet flagship stores. China's pet consumption market grew 52% over five years to RMB 312.6 billion in 2025.
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Alphia filed a WARN notice with Nebraska on 4 November to cut 93 jobs at its Pawnee City plant and convert the site into a Midwest warehouse and distribution hub, moving production to Bern, Kansas. Layoffs begin in a 14-day window from 1 February 2027.
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Ivy Farm Technologies can now supply cultivated wagyu beef as an ingredient to UK pet food manufacturers after a Defra and APHA review. The Oxford company says a first commercial-scale run completes in early 2027 and has applied for European pet food approval.
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Suzhou Liu Maodou Pet Products in Anhui launched its own brand in May 2026 after years of contract sewing, and now ships 2,000 to 3,000 online orders a day in the winter peak. The city backs the cluster with a RMB 200 million fund and a target of RMB 5 billion in pet industry market size by 2027.
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Grupo Pilar Innova has acquired 35% of Vitalcan, becoming the largest shareholder in one of Argentina's ten biggest pet food manufacturers. The distributor adds more than 40,000 retail outlets to a brand built on veterinary clinics, while Vitalcan's wet plant runs at 20-25% of capacity and its dry supply is near its limits.
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The UK and EU have settled a 200-page SPS text that would scrap GBP 200 export health certificates, inspection fees and sampling charges on food and animal products, and restore pet passports for British animals entering the EU. EU ambassadors discussed the draft on 4 November; implementation is not expected before 2027 at the earliest.
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Freshpet reported third-quarter 2026 net sales of USD 317.8 million, up 10.0% on volume alone, with adjusted gross margin at 50.0%. The New Jersey fresh pet dog food maker raised 2026 sales growth guidance to 12-13% and adjusted EBITDA guidance to USD 215-220 million, while logistics costs pushed SG&A to 33.4% of sales.
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Boehringer Ingelheim has launched Recombitek C8 for dogs in Vietnam, a combination vaccine covering four Leptospira strains alongside parvovirus, distemper, infectious hepatitis, respiratory disease and parainfluenza. A 2016 survey in An Giang found 20% of dogs tested positive for leptospirosis; a 2025 Ho Chi Minh City survey found one in ten.
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Pet Focus, the pet food arm of Thailand's Betagro, is moving into the United States and India after building exports to Japan, the Philippines and Malaysia. At Pet Fair Southeast Asia it showed a Perfecta veterinary diet for dogs with food allergies and opened one-stop contract manufacturing to brand owners and distributors.
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Thai customs officers at Chong Chom and the Nakhon Ratchasima fisheries office seized more than 300 lines of imported pet food from two shops, worth THB300,000 to THB500,000. The products, feed for fish, birds, rabbits, turtles and hamsters, carried no customs clearance evidence and no Thai ingredient labels.
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Qingdao's Chongbeite has turned catnip from a perishable herb into a registered toy category, trademarked in 2025, and now ships cat toys to more than 100 countries. Its grape-shaped catnip toy drew orders from 56 countries within 30 days of a Dubai launch, and exports passed half of company revenue in 2023.
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A revised wildlife protection regulation took effect in Chongqing on 1 November, expanding the municipal rule from 20 articles to 30 and adding penalties for organising close public contact with dangerous captive-bred wildlife. Fines run from RMB 1,000 to RMB 10,000 after a warning, buying animals without proof of legal origin carries confiscation plus one to ten times their value, and administrative penalties now enter the public credit system. The rule reaches exhibitions, pet cafes and breeding operations.
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JD.com's pet business reported senior pet food sales up more than 65% year on year for the Double 11 window from 8 October to 1 November, with wet food up 53% to 56%, travel and outdoor products up 88% and cleaning and deodorising up 73%. Cross-border pet sales through JD Global rose 56% with new buyers up 61%. Royal Canin topped both the cat and dog brand rankings, while Hill's held three of the ten best-selling dog products.
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Wooriwa put six functional dry diets on sale in Korea on 2 November, three for dogs and three for cats, produced at a plant in Eumseong that cost KRW 70 billion and is rated at 120,000 tonnes a year. A day earlier, probiotic dairy group hy launched WAL RX, kibble paired with freeze-dried probiotic cubes, starting with gut and joint formulas. Both are betting that Korean owners will pay for a health claim attached to a daily ration.
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Shandong Xinhua Silica Gel is showing a pH-sensitive crystal litter at the 140th Canton Fair that it says changes colour with urine pH and already ships to more than 90 countries. The company puts crystal litter export growth at about 20% a year over five years and designs for freight, with 3.8 litres weighing 1.6 kilograms. Jiangsu Xinyue and Jiangsu Zhongheng are working the same aisle with furniture-integrated beds and app-controlled feeders.
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Yinan county in Shandong's Linyi has built a pet food park of 986 mu with RMB 3 billion of planned investment and 20 companies in the chain, while knitwear workshops in the same county have converted to pet clothing. One producer reports about 1 million pet garments a year, revenue up 30% and more than 70% of output exported to Europe, the United States, Japan and Korea, including a 400,000-unit order completed in July.
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Euromonitor values the global pet care market at USD 224.5 billion in 2026, with volume growth held back by affordability pressure and value growth carried by pricing and premiumisation. Licensing International ranks Thailand as the fastest-growing market at 11.7%, followed by Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, Peru and India at around 8%. The split changes where manufacturers should put capacity: mature markets still pay for premium, emerging ones add households.
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