Background: ownership, sourcing and positioning
Addiction and Pure Life are both independent operators in the Australian cat food market, and each leans on a distinct founding story to set itself apart. Addiction built the range around hypoallergenic formulations designed with a clinical nutritionist. Pure Life uses locally and sustainably sourced Australian ingredients with single-protein, grain-free recipes and a transparency claim on ingredient origin. The two brands differ in several ways beyond the one point highlighted here.
Addiction operates one of New Zealand's largest dry pet food plants and runs a sizeable contract-manufacturing business alongside its own brand. It uses genuinely unusual proteins including New Zealand brushtail possum, venison, kangaroo, salmon and eel.
Pure Life is made in Australia by Hypro Pet Foods and sold mainly through Petbarn, combining high-protein grain-free kibble with freeze-dried 100 percent real meat pieces. It markets itself as Australia's first complete meal to combine high-protein grain-free kibble with freeze-dried 100 percent real meat pieces of the same protein in the bag.
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