Frontier Pets ↔ Purina Pro Plan

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Frontier Pets

Frontier Pets

Independent · 3 listed

Nestle Purina

Purina Pro Plan

Multinational · 17 listed

Formats represented

Frontier
freeze-dried
Purina
cannedkibblepouch

Moisture · as fed

Frontier Pets

freeze-dried
2

Purina Pro Plan

canned
80
kibble
12
pouch
80
0%20%40%60%80%

Shown as fed: the water actually in the food. The dry-matter rows below strip it out so protein and fat can be compared across formats.

Protein · dry matter

Frontier Pets

freeze-dried
50–52

Purina Pro Plan

canned
50–55
kibble
3947
pouch
6370
30%40%50%60%70%80%

Fat · dry matter

Frontier Pets

freeze-dried
2142

Purina Pro Plan

canned
10
kibble
1324
pouch
16–18
0%10%20%30%40%50%

Formats and figures reflect the products listed on KibbleGuide, not necessarily each brand’s full range.

Background: ownership, sourcing and positioning

Frontier Pets and Purina Pro Plan sit at opposite ends of the ownership spectrum in the Australian cat food market. Frontier Pets was founded by Diana Scott, a former Ogilvy marketer who spent 15 years running her own agency before pivoting to pet food in 2017. Purina Pro Plan is produced at the Blayney NSW factory that has made Pro Plan since 1989, after absorbing roughly AUD$200 million in Nestlé investment over the past decade and now running on 100 percent renewable electricity. Shoppers choosing between the two are effectively picking between corporate scale and founder-led focus.

Frontier Pets uses ingredients that are 100 percent Australian, human-grade, whole-of-life free-range, including free-range eggs and certified organic produce. It is built around an explicit anti-factory-farming mission, channelling more than AUD$7 million into Australian regenerative-farming suppliers by 2024.

Purina Pro Plan launched LiveClear in 2020, the first cat food using an egg-derived anti-Fel d 1 protein to reduce environmental cat allergens.

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Frontier Pets

Frontier Pets

Australia · 3 products

FREEZE-DRIED·3

Nestle Purina

Purina Pro Plan

Australia/USA · 8 products

CANNED·4
KIBBLE·3
POUCH·1

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