Pet owners are increasingly looking for fresh, healthier foods for their pets.

CLEVELAND, Sept. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — A new report from Freedonia Group, US Pet Food Packaging, demand for packaging for refrigerated (chilled) pet food and treats is forecast to increase more than 20% annually to $152 million in 2028, with units increasing to 784 million. Growth will be the fastest of any pet food format. Demand for refrigerated pet food has expanded substantially in recent years as pet owners increasingly seek fresh, healthier foods for their pets.

Freshpet continues to dominate production of refrigerated pet food, with most fresh food companies entering the frozen market. However, in December 2021, CESAR partnered with Walmart to launch its FRESH CHEF line of refrigerated dog food rolls (chubs).

Refrigerated pet food is heavily skewed toward dogs, with dog food accounting for 96% of refrigerated pet food packaging sales in 2023. Dogs eat much larger volumes of food in general, have a wider variety of dietary preferences, and can tolerate a broader range of ingredients compared to cats. This flexibility allows for more diverse formulations in refrigerated dog food.

Freshpet entered the refrigerated cat food market in the early 2010s. Cat food represents a small share of the company’s overall sales but operates as the only major seller of these products. Refrigerated dog and cat food are generally packaged similarly, with dog food coming in larger sizes to match their higher caloric needs.

Refrigerated pet food is primarily focused on dogs and cats at this time, and sales of fresh refrigerated products for other pets is currently negligible. However, based on the success of refrigerated foods for dogs and cats, there is a growing interest in offering fresh food such as salads, veggies, and grains for other animals as well, particularly small pets such as rabbits, guinea pigs, birds, and some exotic pets.

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MAHWAH, N.J., Sept. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The past year’s challenges have led many to realize there has never been a better time to protect their loved ones’ legacy. Losing a loved one is a significant life event that often causes sorrow and uncertainty, but two open house events on the same weekend can provide peace of mind and significant savings.

Come to the next Open House weekend, Saturday, September 28, and Sunday, September 29, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Maryrest Cemetery and Mausoleum in Mahwah, NJ, and Christ The King Cemetery in Franklin Lakes, NJ. Both are in Bergen County near the New York State border.

Maryrest Chapel Mausoleum features beautiful stained-glass windows, marble and glass cremation niches, marble crypts, a chapel for committal services, monthly Masses, and prayerful experiences.

The cemetery offers traditional outdoor spaces, including an Amish-styled gazebo committal section and New Jersey’s first natural/green burial section. The garden features bright wildflowers and butterflies surrounded by splendid trees in a kaleidoscope of fall colors to admire.   

Christ the King Cemetery in Franklin Lakes, Bergen County, New Jersey, near the Rockland County, New York border, offers a rural and peaceful cemetery with traditional ground burial and cremation options with flat markers to preserve the beautiful park-like setting.

Are You Keeping the Cremains of Your Loved One at Home? Consider Bringing Them Home (To The Lord)

If you have been keeping the cremated burial remains of your loved ones at home, our open house events could be the perfect opportunity to give your loved ones the resting place they deserve.

Caring and professional Memorial Planning Advisors will meet with you to share information about burial and cremation options, memorialization, and financial planning. Several payment options are available, including 0% interest for 48 months. 

Maryrest Cemetery & Mausoleum is located at 770 Darlington Avenue in Mahwah, NJ, and Christ the King Cemetery is located at 980 Huron Road in Franklin Lakes, NJ.

The open house is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Appointments are not necessary. However, we recommend visitors fill out and submit the online form on our website to help our caring and professional Memorial Planning Advisors better understand their concerns and needs.

To learn more about Maryrest and Mausoleum in Mahwah, click the link for more details: https://www.rcancem.org/open-house-weekend-maryrest. Click here to learn more about Christ The King Cemetery just a few miles away: https://www.rcancem.org/open-house-weekend-christ-the-king.

Remaining open house dates and locations:

October 12 & 13: Holy Cross Cemetery & Mausoleum, 340 Ridge Rd., North Arlington, NJ 07031, (888) 467-8903.

October 26 & 27: St. Gertrude Cemetery & Mausoleum, 53 Inman Ave., Colonia, NJ 07067,
(888) 444-2791.

November 9 & 10: Holy Name Cemetery & Mausoleum, 823 West Side Ave., Jersey City, N.J. 07306, (888) 621-0337.

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Schematic is transforming pricing and packaging for B2B SaaS companies, allowing product and engineering teams to implement flexible models with minimal maintenance. By eliminating fragmented, homegrown systems, Schematic helps businesses adapt to modern buying preferences and maximize revenue. Now publicly available, the platform includes embeddable UI components and integrates deeply with Stripe. Backed by $4.8M in seed funding, Schematic offers a streamlined solution for managing the full pricing and packaging lifecycle.

BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Schematic is transforming pricing and packaging for B2B SaaS companies by getting product and engineering teams out of billing projects. With just a few lines of code, businesses can implement pricing and packaging into any application, bridging the gap between outdated, inflexible billing tools and the demands of modern software businesses.

The company announced today that it is now available to the public after a year in development with a select set of beta customers, and that it is launching Components – embeddable UI elements for purchasing experiences – and a deep integration with Stripe providing a full stack solution for pricing and packaging.

The current pricing and packaging landscape is dominated by fragmented systems and frankenstein implementations. Schematic surveyed 100s of product and engineering leaders and found that their homegrown systems and processes weren’t built for flexibility or to support modern buying preferences such as metering and modular packaging. Consistently, teams struggled to adequately resource pricing and packaging initiatives and, as a result, left significant money on the table.

“Historically, maintaining pricing and packaging for product and engineering teams has been a mess. The market has tools for finance teams in spades, but none that bridge the gap to the application to support feature fulfillment, the end user experience, and internal tools, so we end up building them from scratch. We built Schematic to address that gap, and our product allows businesses to handle the entire lifecycle of a feature from rollout to revenue, offering best-in-class control and transparency to end users out of the box,” said Fynn Glover, CEO of Schematic.

The company wants to eliminate the need for businesses to reinvent the wheel to support pricing and packaging in applications. Schematic offers the flexibility to launch, package, meter, and monitor features from one place, without the tax of architecting and maintaining homegrown systems.

Pricing and packaging sits within a $30B market that includes the tools to license, fulfill, and bill end customers. It faces significant challenges due to the consumerization of B2B SaaS that has led to evolving buying preferences and expectations, pressure on back office operations, and legacy tools that are difficult to implement, costly, and do not integrate well with modern tools and applications. This has led to fragmented, homegrown systems and processes that divert resources to maintain and delay growth initiatives.

Schematic believes that an integrated platform, rather than disconnected tools and processes, should support customers from purchase to feature delivery and the operators tasked with supporting them. The launch of Components extends Schematic’s value proposition with embeddable UI elements that deliver best-in-class purchasing experiences to SaaS customers.

Schematic’s co-founders Jasdeep Garcha, Benjamin Papillon, Giovanni Hobbins, and Fynn Glover are seasoned entrepreneurs with experience on many sides of this problem having most recently led Operations, Product, Growth, and Engineering functions at Automox, Twilio, and Relay Payments. They have previously built successful startups and bring their expertise to Schematic to address the evolving needs of B2B SaaS companies.

The company is launching with $4.8M in seed funding led by MHS Capital with participation from NextView Ventures, Active Capital, Atlanta Ventures, and the founders of LaunchDarkly, Salesloft, Salesforce Pardot, and Crowdstrike.

“The decision to back Schematic was easy, given the clear market need and the team’s proven track record. Schematic is poised for rapid growth by providing an integrated solution for SaaS pricing and packaging,” said Vijay Naggapan, partner with MHS Capital.

Schematic’s platform allows businesses to outsource pricing and packaging with a few lines of code, enabling them to quickly launch new packaging models, take the burden off of engineering almost entirely, and flexibly adjust their pricing and packaging to individual customer preferences. The product has been in beta for a year with customers ranging from early-stage startups to growth-stage scale-ups, all benefiting from the flexibility and control it provides.

“There should be a standard for how digital businesses operate pricing and packaging. Schematic provides that standard, eliminating fragmented systems that frustrate teams and slow down businesses,” said Fynn.

“Schematic has allowed us to manage entitlements and metering with ease, setting us up in just a few days,” said Daniel Chalef, CEO of Zep, an early-stage SaaS company that replaced manual processes with Schematic’s automation. By implementing Schematic Zep has adapted to customer demands for new offerings easily without major engineering investments.

Learn more about Schematic. The product is free for early stage businesses.

Media Contact

Jasdeep Garcha, Schematic, 1 9192158521, jasdeep@schematichq.com, https://schematichq.com/

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