Champion Petfoods

Mars Petcare announced its acquisition of Champion Petfoods on 2022-11-01, closing in the first half of 2023; Mars is privately held by the Mars family (US). Corporations Canada's federal search returned zero results for both "Champion Petfoods" and "Champion Petfoods Holding", so the entity is likely an Alberta provincial corporation not reachable through the federal registry, and SEC EDGAR has no Mars filing since Mars is not publicly traded.

• Mars Petcare to Acquire Champion Petfoods, Maker of ORIJEN and ACANA · press “The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.”
• Orijen · press “In 2023, Mars Incorporated acquired Champion Petfoods, the parent company of Orijen.”
• Contact Us | Champion Petfoods · the vendor's own site “Champion Petfoods Holding Inc., 301, 1103 95 Street SW, Edmonton, AB T6X 0P8”
• Corporations Canada federal corporate search · registry record “0 results were found, 0 returned.”

The vendor's own food philosophy page names both kitchens: Acheson, Alberta and Auburn, Kentucky. No revenue or volume split by plant is published; the split here is an estimate weighted toward the original, larger Alberta kitchen, corroborated by a 2018 Globe and Mail profile that already described Alberta and Kentucky manufacturing before the Mars sale.

• Food Philosophy | Champion Petfoods · the vendor's own site “thoughtfully crafted in our state of the art kitchens in Acheson, Alberta and Auburn, Kentucky”
• How once-tiny pet-food maker took a bite of the global market · press

Headquarters and the original kitchen are in Edmonton and Acheson, Alberta; a second kitchen operates in Auburn, Kentucky. Mars's 2022 announcement gave a single global headcount of more than 800 with no country breakdown, so the split mirrors the manufacturing footprint as an estimate rather than a reported staffing figure.

• About Us | Champion Petfoods · the vendor's own site “Founded in a small town in Alberta, Canada”
• Mars Petcare to Acquire Champion Petfoods, Maker of ORIJEN and ACANA · press “The company employs more than 800 people.”

Champion's food philosophy page names lamb from New Zealand and fish from Scandinavia, plus unnamed "neighbors" and long-standing regional farmers, ranchers, and fisheries near its Alberta and Kentucky kitchens. No ingredient spend is published, so the split is an estimate: regional North American ranchers and farmers split between Canada and the United States, Scandinavian fish to the EU bucket, and New Zealand lamb plus other unnamed origins to OTHER.

• Food Philosophy | Champion Petfoods · the vendor's own site “lamb from New Zealand, fish from Scandinavia, and other premium ingredients from our neighbors”