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The Ken-L Ration logo. Ken-L Ration is a brand of canned and dry dog food. In 1922, canned pet food became popularly known on the market after Ken-L Ration, the first to release horse meat in their pet food after purchasing cheap horse meat from PM Chappel. [1] Ken-L Ration was owned by Quaker Oats, but the brand was sold to H. J. Heinz Co. in ...
Anderson Clayton made and marketed the Gaines brand. Ralston Purina was already the market leader, and a merger with Anderson Clayton would have pushed its share of the pet food market to 35 percent. Quaker Oats, marketing the Ken-L Ration brand had only 8 percent of the market before the merger and would have a 15 percent share after the merger.
This is a list of defunct (mainly American) consumer brands which are no longer made and usually no longer mass-marketed to consumers. Brands in this list may still be made, but are only made in modest quantities and/or limited runs as a nostalgic or retro style item. A set of signs promoting Burma-Shave, on U.S. Route 66
The brand was originally created in 1981 as the first dual textured dog food, having soft chewy pieces as well as hard crunchy ones. It was developed by Quaker Oats as part of their Ken'l Ration brand. In 1983, more bits ingredients were added to the dog food and the brand was renamed "Kibbles 'n Bits 'n Bits 'n Bits."
Canned horse meat was introduced in the United States under the Ken-L Ration brand after World War I as a means to dispose of excess horses no longer needed for the war. [17] The 1930s saw the introduction of canned cat food and dry meat-meal dog food by the Gaines Food Co. By the time World War II ended, pet food sales had reached $200 million.
As seen in "Barbie," Ken frequently takes a back seat to Barbie. The movie's tagline says it all: "She's everything. He's just Ken." For a brief, shining moment in the early 1990s, though, one Ken ...
From the 1920s and through the 1950s or 1960s, with a brief lapse during World War II, horse meat was canned and sold as dog food by many companies under many brands, most notably Ken-L Ration. Horse meat as dog food became so popular that by the 1930s, over 50,000 horses were bred and slaughtered each year to keep up with this specific demand.
Ken Olsen, the MIT-educated inventor who started Digital Equipment Corp. with $70,000 in venture capital in the 1950s and built it into a company with billions of dollars in sales and more than ...