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Nestlé Purina PetCare (/ p j ʊ ˈ r iː n ə /), or simply Purina, an American subsidiary of the Swiss corporation Nestlé, based in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1893 by William H. Danforth . It produces and markets pet food , treats, and cat and dog litter.
Ralston Purina also owned Jack in the Box fast food restaurants from 1968 to 1985, [10] along with several high-end restaurants. [11] [12] Ralston Purina owned Van Camp Sea Food Company from 1963 to 1988, a tuna cannery with Chicken of the Sea as its main product. [13] Ralston Purina owned an animal pharmaceutical company in the 1970s and 1980s.
Purina Mills licenses the Purina and Chow brands for the United States and its territories (including Puerto Rico) from the successor of the Ralston Purina Company and owner of the trademarks, Nestlé Purina PetCare. Outside of the U.S., the rights to the Purina and Chow brands for animal feeds are licensed to Cargill [3] [4] by Nestle Purina ...
In 2011, the firm partnered with the U.S. Army to provide Army veterinarians and technicians preparing to deploy to areas of conflict with hands-on emergency veterinary experiences at the firm's hospitals. [15] The program is a nine-day schedule where the soldiers experience first-hand medical veterinary emergencies. [16]
Purina One, styled as Purina ONE ("optimal nutrition enhancement"), is a brand of premium dog and cat food made by Nestlé Purina PetCare. [1] Purina ONE foods typically contain some type of meat as their first named ingredient, while still containing by-products , grain fragments (such as brewers rice and corn gluten meal ), and whole corn .
In 2018, the company announced its first non-European ship, the 84-passenger Emerald Harmony, to provide cruises between Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Siem Reap, Cambodia. [6] It also announced its expansion into yacht cruising, chartering the MV Adriatic Princess to offer cruises on Croatia's Dalmatian coast on the Adriatic Sea .
Along with P&O Cruises Australia, it has the oldest heritage of any cruise line in the world, dating to P&O's first passenger operations in 1837. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] [ 53 ] P&O Cruises was divested from P&O in 2000, subsequently becoming a subsidiary of P&O Princess Cruises , [ 54 ] before coming under the ownership of Carnival Corporation & plc in ...
In 1968, the food line was made available through veterinarians and pet professionals as Hill's Science Diet. The line continued to expand and includes more than 60 Prescription Diet brand pet foods (prescription foods for cats and dogs with specific diseases, only available through a vet or pet pharmacy) and Science Diet brand pet foods (sold ...