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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 ...
The Purina part of the company is now split. The pet-food company sold to Nestlé is now called Nestlé Purina PetCare. The livestock-feed company is called Purina Mills, LLC, and is a unit of Land O'Lakes. Ralcorp manufactures many store-brand foods that are sold in grocery outlets across the United States under the retailers' private labels.
Purina may refer to: Ralston Purina , an American pet food company that was acquired in 2001 Nestlé Purina PetCare , the pet food division of Swiss-based Nestlé S.A., and the acquirer of Ralston Purina Company in 2001 (subsequently merged with Nestlé's Friskies PetCare Company)
Frosty Paws, formerly Pet79 and Fido Freeze, is a brand of ice cream, specifically formulated and sold for dogs.It is produced by Nestlé, under their Nestlé Dreyer's Ice Cream Company ice cream unit, branded under the Purina brand name.
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 .
Meow Mix is a product of The J.M. Smucker Company (as of March 23, 2015); a variety of dry and wet cat food known for its advertising jingle. Meow Mix was introduced in 1974 and sells many flavors, including "Original Choice" and "Seafood Medley".