This Market Dynamics report features market data extracted from Mintel’s UK Pet Food Market Report 2025. Giving you direct access to key market information and analysis from our category experts. This report is ideal for those looking for a topline summary of the UK pet food market. The full UK report is available to purchase here.
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MARKET DYNAMICS
- Market size
- Economising habits drove volume decline over 2021-24
- Graph 1: total value and volume sales of cat and dog food, 2020-24
- Values fell into decline in 2024
- Volumes to tentatively return to growth in 2025
- Market forecast
- Value growth will be driven by rising prices and trading up
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- Trading up to continue amid sustained real income growth
- Marginal volume growth over 2025-30
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- Volumes will broadly stagnate as various factors offset one other
- Market segmentation
- Cat snacks/treats bucked the value decline in 2024, with volumes and average price rising
- Graph 4: value sales of cat and dog food, by segment, 2023-25
- Graph 5: volume sales of cat and dog food, by segment, 2023-25
- Dog meals and snacks to see volume growth in 2025
- Market share
- Most leading dog food brands see value slip in 2024/25; pressure mounts from smaller brands
- Graph 6: leading brands’ value sales in the dog food market, 2022/23-2024/25
- Good Boy extends its lead in dog snacks/treats; own label loses share
- Graph 7: leading brands’ value sales in the dog snacks and treats market, 2022/23-2024/25
- Felix, Whiskas and own label lose ground in cat food in 2024/25
- Graph 8: leading brands’ value sales in the cat food market, 2022/23-2024/25
- Webbox closes the gap on Dreamies in cat snacks/treats
- Graph 9: leading brands’ value sales in the cat snacks and treats market, 2022/23-2024/25
- Market drivers
- Pet ownership edges up in 2025
- Graph 10: pet ownership, 2024-25
- Children are the biggest factor driving up ownership
- Graph 11: pet ownership, by presence of children in the household, 2024
- Graph 12: pet ownership, by age group, 2025
- Demographic shifts to put downward pressure on ownership
- Graph 13: population, by age, 2020, 2025 and 2030
- Pet obesity is on the rise
- Real wage growth continues, but many consumers are still catching up
- Graph 14: CPI inflation rate and total pay growth rate, 2021-25
- Subdued financial wellbeing drove cutting back and trading down over 2022-24
- Graph 15: the financial wellbeing index, 2019-25
- Evidence of trading up in cat/dog food as consumer confidence improves in 2025
- Graph 16: the financial confidence index, 2019-25
- Inflation in pet care has risen again over the 12 months to July 2025
- Graph 17: annual change in RPI of petcare, 2019-July 2025
- Interest in sustainability to gain ground as income pressures ease
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WHAT CONSUMERS WANT AND WHY
- Pet feeding behaviours
- Pet food buying declines as more owners take a DIY approach
- Graph 18: pet feeding behaviours (net), 2023-25
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INNOVATION AND MARKETING TRENDS
- Launch activity and innovation
- Sustainable/ethical claims rise
- Graph 19: share of pet food launches carrying ethical and environmental claims, 2020-25
- Advertising and marketing activity
- Adspend jumped by 45% in 2024
- Graph 20: ATL, online display and direct mail advertising expenditure on pet food, by segment, 2021-25
- Brands tackle pet obesity and promote the importance of joint care
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APPENDIX
- Market share
- Leading brands’ value sales and shares in the dog meals market
- Leading brands’ volume sales and shares in the dog meals market
- Leading manufacturers’ value sales and shares in the dog meals market
- Leading manufacturers’ volume sales and shares in the dog meals market
- Leading brands’ value sales and shares in the dog snacks and treats market
- Leading brands’ volume sales and shares in the dog snacks and treats market
- Leading manufacturers’ value sales and shares in the dog snacks and treats market
- Leading manufacturers’ volume sales and shares in the dog snacks and treats market
- Leading brands’ value sales and shares in the cat meals market
- Leading brands’ volume sales and shares in the cat meals market
- Leading manufacturers’ value sales and shares in the cat meals market
- Leading manufacturers’ volume sales and shares in the cat meals market
- Leading brands’ value sales and shares in the cat snacks and treats market
- Leading brands’ volume sales and shares in the cat snacks and treats market
- Leading manufacturers’ value sales and shares in the cat snacks and treats market
- Leading manufacturers’ volume sales and shares in the cat snacks and treats market
- Advertising and marketing activity
- ATL, online display and direct mail advertising expenditure on pet food, by leading advertisers, 2021-25
- ATL, online display and direct mail advertising expenditure on pet food, by media type
- Market segmentation
- Market forecast data and methodology
- Market forecast
- Market forecast and prediction intervals (value)
- Market forecast and prediction intervals (volume)
- Forecast methodology
- Report scope and definitions
- Market definition
- Abbreviations and terms
- Consumer research methodology
- Nielsen Ad Intel coverage
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