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Pet Retailers Name Their 2021 Top-Selling Food Brands in the PETS+ Big Survey

The independent pet retailers who took our first-ever Big Survey identified which brands brought in the most sales last year.

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1 year ago

November 3, 2022

Pamela Mitchell

Editor’s note: In our first-ever Big Survey, we asked independent pet retailers and service providers to answer 69 questions about how they do business and the industry itself. These owners and top managers — 520 to be exact, from across the U.S. and Canada — shared all in the anonymous survey conducted online from mid-August through October.

Fromm landed the No. 1 spot in answers to this Big Survey question: What was your top-selling food brand in 2021? Nearly one-third of all respondents named the Wisconsin company as their sales leader, with Nutrisource coming in at No. 2 and Stella & Chewy’s at No. 3. Taste of the Wild rounds out the top at No. 4.

Check out the rest of the top 10 list, which covers a total of 18 brands thanks to multiple ties.

See the answers to all 69 questions in our November-December issue, mailing out Nov. 15. A big thank you to the American Pet Products Association for sponsoring our inaugural survey!

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