ALPO is an American brand of dog food marketed and manufactured by the Nestlé Purina Petfoods Company subsidiary of Nestlé. The brand is offered as a canned or packaged soft food, as well as in dry kibbles.
ALPO, an abbreviation of Allen Products, was founded in 1936 by Robert F. Hunsicker in Allentown, PA. In 1964, the Allen Products Company was acquired by Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company. In 1980, the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company was acquired by Grand Metropolitan and in 1986 Grand Metropolitan sold the Liggett Group but kept ALPO Petfoods, Inc.. In 1995, Nestlé SA acquired ALPO Petfoods, Inc. from Grand Metropolitan. In January 2001, Nestlé SA announced the merger of Nestlé Friskies with Ralston Purina to form Nestlé Purina Petcare Company.
For many years, the brand's main television commercial spokesman was Lorne Greene, who created the concept of eating one's own dog food by claiming that ALPO is so good he feeds it to his own dogs. Ed McMahon also had a long association with the product on television, and Garfield was a "spokescat" for the brand in the 1990s. ALPO was the sponsor of the debut broadcast of the long-running television news magazine 60 Minutes, on September 24, 1968.[1]
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Ingredients
ALPO uses ground yellow corn, beef and bone meal, corn germ meal, soybean meal, animal fat (preserved with BHA), digest of chicken by-products (carcass of slaughtered chicken, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs), pork and bone meal, poultry by-product meal (glandular meal obtained from the livers and other glands of various, unspecified animals).[2][3]
Recall
On March 30, 2007, the brand's Prime Cuts & Gravy wet variety of dog food was recalled after gluten supplied to Purina was linked to being the same variety and from the same supplier as the brands affected by the Menu Foods Pet Food Recall.
References
- ^ Museum of Broadcast Communications archives
- ^ Dog Food Project - Ingredients to avoid
- ^ The Best Dry Dog Food - An encyclopedia of dry dog food ingredients
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