What are you planning to put on the shelf: kibble, wet food, treats, or a range that brings them together? That choice changes which pet food manufacturers you should talk to. A dry recipe, a wet-food carton, and a baked treat each move through different production and packaging steps.
If you’re building a private-label range, you also need a partner who can turn your idea into samples, a finished pack, and a production-ready product. In this guide, we’ll walk through 10 manufacturers by product focus, so you can see where each one fits for your launch.
What Pet Food Manufacturers Can Make for Your Brand
If you’re planning dry food, are you picturing extruded kibble or a baked recipe? For wet food, is the idea a pâté in a can, chunks in a pouch, or a carton for the shelf? Those details shape the production line, packaging and development work your manufacturer needs to handle.
10 Pet Food Manufacturers by Product Focus
1 Freshbite Bridge Petcare in China
We develop private-label dry and wet pet food at Freshbite. Our dry-food options include extruded kibble and baked food; our wet-food formats include cans, pouches and Tetra Recart cartons. The carton option is a particular reason to talk with us: we operate Asia’s first and only Tetra Recart production line dedicated to wet pet food. If your range needs both kibble and wet food, we can discuss the recipe, sample and packaging decisions together through our OEM/ODM process.
2 United Petfood in Belgium
United Petfood produces private-label dry food, wet food, biscuits and snacks, with recipes developed for its customers. That breadth suits a retailer planning a connected food-and-treat range. If you need several formats, ask which of its production sites can make the specific products and pack sizes in your brief.
3 Partner in Pet Food in Europe
Partner in Pet Food makes own-label products for retailers as well as its own brands. Its range spans dry food, wet food and snacks. For a buyer planning everyday cat or dog food alongside complementary treats, the useful starting point is the range you want on the shelf and the markets where it will be sold.
4 Landguth in Germany
Landguth focuses on private-label wet food for cats and dogs. It offers recipe development, manufacturing and logistics as part of its brand service. Bring a wet-food texture, ingredient direction and intended pack format to this conversation; those details matter more here than a broad request for “pet food.”
5 GA Pet Food in the United Kingdom
GA Pet Food works with independent retailers on own-label pet food and discusses recipe, packaging and label choices. Its published production story includes extrusion and baking. It is a relevant contact when you want to put your store name on a dry-food range and need to shape the recipe and presentation together.
6 Simmons Pet Food in North America
Simmons Pet Food offers private-label and contract production across wet food, dry food and treats. Its wet-food packaging includes cans, pouches and cups. That makes it useful for a North American brief in which you have already chosen the wet-food texture but still need to compare familiar retail pack formats.
7 Elmira Pet Products in Canada
Elmira specializes in private-label dry pet food. Its published process covers mixing, extrusion, packaging and logistics. If your first product is dog or cat kibble, that dry-food focus gives you a direct conversation about the formula, finished piece and bag rather than a discussion of unrelated wet-food formats.
8 Alphia in the United States
Alphia’s custom manufacturing offer includes dry kibble, baked treats and whole-muscle jerky. A brand pairing a core kibble product with treats can discuss those distinct formats with one manufacturer. Be specific about which treat process you need: baked pieces and jerky are not interchangeable just because both sit in the treat aisle.
9 VAFO Group in the Czech Republic
VAFO offers private-label dry food, wet food, snacks and supplements. Its published service also covers R&D, pilot production, palatability trials and packaging discussions. That combination is relevant if you are building a multi-category range and need to move a proposed recipe through trials before committing to its final presentation.
10 C&D Foods in Ireland
C&D Foods supplies private-label wet and dry food for dogs and cats, including products formulated to customer requirements. Its multi-format range is relevant to retailers building an assortment rather than a single hero SKU. The next question is which recipes, packs and production sites fit the price points you want to cover.
Why Freshbite Stands Out Among Pet Food Manufacturers
For brands exploring wet food, our Tetra Recart line changes the packaging conversation. We operate Asia’s first and only Tetra Recart production line dedicated to wet pet food. Tetra Recart is a carton format for shelf-stable wet food, so it gives you an option beyond conventional cans and flexible pouches. It does not mean every recipe should go into a carton: the food texture, fill, thermal process, pack size and target market still need to work together. We can talk through those details with you rather than treating the pack as a last-minute design choice. You can see the wet-food formats in our product range.
We also make extruded and baked dry food, which matters if your plan includes more than one category. You might come to us with a kibble recipe and a matching wet-food extension, or with a wet-food idea that still needs its texture and pack format defined. In either case, our OEM/ODM service connects formula development, sampling and trial production with quality inspection, packaging and export delivery. We can discuss what needs testing before a product moves into routine production.
If Freshbite sounds like the right fit, tell us what you want to make, where you plan to sell it and what you already have: a target recipe, a reference product or just a clear idea of the pet and price point. We will use that brief to discuss a realistic development route. Explore more about Freshbite or contact our team to start the conversation.
Pet Food Manufacturers FAQ
How do I choose among pet food manufacturers for a private-label range?
Start with the food format, texture and market you want to serve. Use those details to ask which production site can make and pack your recipe, then discuss samples and packaging before choosing a partner.
Which pet food manufacturers on this list make both dry and wet food?
Freshbite, United Petfood, Partner in Pet Food, Simmons Pet Food, VAFO Group and C&D Foods publish dry- and wet-food capabilities. Check the specific formats and production site for your project, since a group-wide offer does not mean every factory makes every product.
What pet food does Freshbite pack in Tetra Recart?
We use Tetra Recart cartons for wet pet food on our dedicated production line. Our extruded kibble and baked dry food are separate products; they are not packed in Tetra Recart cartons.
