Background: ownership, sourcing and positioning
Frontier Pets and Tiki Cat 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. Tiki Cat was founded in 2005 in California by Christine and Robert Hackett through their company Petropics; Christine drew on her PetCo research and development background to design an ultra-low-carbohydrate wet food. The founder stories remain central to how each brand still talks about itself today.
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.
Tiki Cat has most of its canned production made in Thai human-grade canning facilities that also produce human tuna; post-acquisition footprint now includes two Joplin Missouri plants. It is built around visible shredded or flaked whole proteins like ahi tuna and wild salmon in broth rather than pate or gravy, with many recipes carbohydrate-free.
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