Purina Pro Plan ↔ Ziwi Peak

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Nestle Purina

Purina Pro Plan

Multinational · 17 listed

FountainVest Partners

Ziwi Peak

Private equity · 18 listed

Formats represented

Purina
cannedkibblepouch
Ziwi
air-driedcannedsteam-dried

Moisture · as fed

Purina Pro Plan

canned
80
kibble
12
pouch
80

Ziwi Peak

air-dried
14
canned
78
steam-dried
12
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

Purina Pro Plan

canned
50–55
kibble
3947
pouch
6370

Ziwi Peak

air-dried
4451
canned
4155
steam-dried
43–45
30%40%50%60%70%80%

Fat · dry matter

Purina Pro Plan

canned
10
kibble
1324
pouch
16–18

Ziwi Peak

air-dried
2835
canned
1830
steam-dried
27–32
0%10%20%30%40%

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

Background: ownership, sourcing and positioning

Purina Pro Plan and Ziwi Peak sit at opposite ends of the ownership spectrum in the Australian cat food market. 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. Ziwi Peak is made using Z-TWINTECH, the proprietary two-stage low-temperature air-drying process developed by founder Peter Mitchell to shelf-stabilise raw diets without heat extrusion. Shoppers choosing between the two are effectively picking between corporate scale and founder-led focus.

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.

Ziwi Peak is made at a purpose-built kitchen in Napier, New Zealand, which replaced its original Mount Maunganui operations in 2022, with all meat and seafood sourced within New Zealand. It uses recipes that routinely carry 96 percent meat, organs, bone and green-lipped mussel with zero grain, legume or potato content.

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Nestle Purina

Purina Pro Plan

Australia/USA · 8 products

CANNED·4
KIBBLE·3
POUCH·1

FountainVest Partners

Ziwi Peak

New Zealand · 18 products

AIR-DRIED·5
CANNED·10
STEAM-DRIED·3

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