Addressing Pet Life Stage Nutrition Through Need States

July 2024

Holistic wellness in pet health is becoming more sophisticated than ever. As needs become more nuanced, expected benefits are becoming more specific. This report explores how pet life stage nutrition offers opportunities for targeting stage-specific needs, the role claims and ingredients play in communicating benefits, the role tech can play, and how learning from human health trends can show the way forward for pet health trends.

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Key Findings

Tailoring formulations and solutions to the specific needs of pet life stages

As the focus on pet health and wellness grows, the scope of positioning benefits is expanding across different pet care categories. With incremental infiltration in this space at this time, adopting a more targeted and defined scope can serve as a key differentiator. Understanding needs by life stage is one such segment that holds growth opportunities.

Claims and ingredients key in communicating the needs that are being addressed

Mimicking human trends around communicating functional benefits through packaging and labelling, pet product packaging is also seeing claims and ingredients clearly mentioned front and centre. While, so far, most claims operate under a broad umbrella, there is scope for a more niche positioning, with claims backed by relevant ingredients. Scope for development also lies in learning further from human trends.

Leverage AI-powered solutions

From personalisation to automation, and from AI-powered platforms to at-home devices, AI-powered pet owner-facing solutions can elevate the pet raising experience. As challengers enter this space, incumbents must strategise in their approaches to remain relevant within the pet tech ecosystem.

Introduction
Key findings
Exploring need states in pets by life stage
Adults in focus, as juveniles and senior pets mostly manage on comprehensive diets
Product claims and ingredients are critical tools in conveying life stage-specific benefits
Understanding the need for life stage-specific diets
Mapping life stage requirements to corresponding need states
Author speak
Getting started on the pet ownership journey
Juvenile-orientated diets show efforts to make inroads early on
Different formats and textures for different needs
Juvenile focused pet food launches highlight formats and emphasise benefits
Training them young while treating them right
Treats, tech and transport: Product development is becoming sophisticated and niche
Author speak
The concept of need states in pet health and wellness
Pet obesity: The dark side of pet humanisation
Approaches to tackle obesity in pets
Special care for special needs
Resonance with life stage need-specific ingredients can drive product adoption
Achieve differentiation through sophisticated benefits and hero ingredients
Beyond water: Functional drinks promote hydration and enrichment
Author speak
An ageing pet cat and dog population
Senior-specific needs: A convergence point for ingredients, functional benefits and claims
Ageing pets: An appealing category for pet food players and private labels alike
Forms and textures to appeal to the ageing senses
Texture and format should be a consideration for senior diets
Author speak
Opportunities (1): Get to know the pet owner
Opportunities (2): Map out optimal positioning of ingredients and claims
Opportunities (3): Leverage AI to drive personalisation unique to a pet’s needs ecosystem
Opportunities (4): Understand pet owner sensibility for optimal targeting and positioning
Key findings

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This is the aggregation of pet food and pet products.

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