Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch is the show where contestants get into an elevator and have just 60 seconds to pitch their business to a video camera. Our board of investors is watching, and if they like what they hear they open the doors and the entrepreneur steps into the boardroom to […]
Food
According to PMMI Business Intelligence, a move to smaller dogs is driving a change to smaller packaging formats. According to “Trends and Drivers Impacting the Pet Food Industry,” this trend to “humanize” our pets has been going on for some time, and can require changes in processing–more slowly to preserve […]
In the U.S., the Cat and Dog segments represent 95% of the pet food market and their share is expected to keep growing until 2024 increasing their dominance over “Other Pet” foods. Interestingly enough, there is almost an even number of dogs and cats in the US (90-95 million dogs […]
A select few in that world, though, have managed to surmount the odds, with some even developing business ventures outside their original niche. Chefs step out of the kitchen to double as writers and TV hosts; restaurant owners become brand ambassadors. It’s not surprising, then, that several of AdWeek‘s recently crowned “30 Most Influential People In Food” have […]