Meredith Corporation s Daily Paws Names Besa the Bulldog Winner of Inaugural Pet Etiquette Fails Photo Contest Sponsored by Mars Petcare s GREENIES™ Brand
Top Dog Picked From More Than 600 Submissions of Good Dogs Who Sometimes Mess Up
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DES MOINES, Iowa and NEW YORK, Dec. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Meredith Corporation s (NYSE: MDP) Daily Paws, a new digital media brand that inspires, entertains, empowers and educates America s growing number of pet parents and which surpassed 1 million monthly site visits in November, fewer than three months after launch, today announced Besa the Bulldog as winner of its first-ever Pet Etiquette Fails Photo Contest sponsored by Mars Petcare s GREENIES™ brand. The contest recognizes good dogs who sometimes mess up, such as taking mud baths or playing with toilet paper. For more information on the contest and to read about the winner, visit dailypaws.com/etiquettecontest.
Huge demand for Whanganui s City Mission Christmas Lunch at Eulogy Lounge
21 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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City Mission Whanganui manager Karrie Brown says the only thing missing for Friday is some musical performers. Photo / Bevan Conley
Mike Tweed is a multimedia journalist at the Whanganui Chroniclemichael.tweed@nzme.co.nzWhangaChron The annual City Mission Christmas Lunch will once again be held at the Eulogy Lounge at the Whanganui Racecourse this year, and City Mission Whanganui manager Karrie Brown said the tickets had been all but snapped up. It ll be a really lovely menu, but it s simple, so it doesn t take a lot of preparation in the kitchen. In other years we ve done chicken drumsticks, but this year we re going all out and we ve got boneless chicken instead. That s a bit of a treat. It was more expensive to do, but we thought it was worth doing.
Mars Petcare s factory closes after 27 years in Whanganui
18 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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Long-serving staff members Sue Austin (front left), Terri Coopland (centre) and Aaron Manville (front right) say they ll miss the fun and camaraderie they shared with their colleagues.
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KEY POINTS: Mars site sold to smallgoods producer New site owner plans to expand Good number of staff have jobs to go to. It was the end of an era for many local families and the Whanganui business community when Mars Petcare finished production at its Castlecliff factory on Friday.
After 27 years of petfood manufacturing in the city, the company is moving production of cat food pouches to a facility in Thailand. Mars says the move will save $15.8 million a year, with the Thailand factory having five times the capacity and able to supply the entire Asia Pacific region, and New Zealand.
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Petcare’s been rich with investment of late. In April, Nestlé spent an undisclosed sum to buy buoyant Lily’s Kitchen. In September Forthglade was sold for £50m. That was followed in October by Spectrum Brands putting up £140m for Armitage Pet Care, while dry dogfood specialist Skinner’s grabbed a majority stake in wet dogfood producer Naturediet.
Amid the flurry of M&A activity, Aardvark Petcare smashed its launch fundraising target, Edgard & Cooper secured over £16.5m, and Denzel’s netted a six-figure cash injection, following a £20m investment in DTC petfood brand Butternut Box back in February.
Animals Matter: Please don t give pets as surprise gifts
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Unless you have the recipient’s buy-in about a Christmas pet and they know what to expect in terms of care costs, please think of another gift.kajakiki /Getty Images
While I normally don’t mind if people give pets as gifts if they are parents giving to children or adult children giving to parents or spouses or partners giving to each other (or some other mutually consenting relationship), I often caution against people giving pets as gifts in general.
Unless you know someone really well and discussed the potential gift idea in advance, not everyone is ready for the surprise or the financial obligation that comes with having a pet. That gift might even be less welcome during the pandemic.