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i-Tail Corporation Public Company Limited
i-Tail makes and sells wet and dry pet food, treats, and cat and dog foods under several brands around the world.
i-Tail is a Thai pet food maker that sells mostly wet food for cats and dogs, plus dry food and treats, to pet owners in dozens of countries. You may not know the company name, but you've likely seen its work on a shelf: it makes food under brands like Bellotta, Marvo, and Change, and it also produces private-label food for retailers and other pet food companies. The heart of the business is canning — cooking meat, fish, and other ingredients into sealed cans and pouches that stay fresh for years without a fridge.
Most of its money comes from selling these products abroad, especially to the United States, Europe, and Japan, where pet owners spend heavily on their animals. It sells to distributors, retailers, and other brands rather than mostly through its own stores, so it earns money by making large volumes of food at a low cost per can. Thailand is a natural place to do this because it has a strong seafood and tuna canning industry, which gives i-Tail access to fish, factories, and skilled labor. The company was formerly called Songkla Canning and grew out of that canning tradition before focusing on pets. Pet food is a good business because people keep buying it even when money is tight — a dog still needs dinner. But it is also crowded. i-Tail competes with giant global players like Mars (private) and Nestlé, which owns Purina, as well as with cheaper producers in Thailand and China. Its edge is scale in wet food and the ability to make food for other brands, but that also means it depends on a handful of big customers and on the price of fish and meat, which can swing sharply.
One thing worth watching: i-Tail listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand in 2022, spinning off from its parent Thai Union Group, the world's big seafood canner. That gave it cash to expand factories and chase the growing global pet food market. The bet is simple: as more people around the world get pets and treat them like family, demand for good pet food keeps rising, and i-Tail wants to be the factory behind many of those bowls.
Saved answer · last researched 12 Nov 2026