Beggin' Strips
Brand of dog treats
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| Product type | Pet food and snacks |
|---|---|
| Owner | Nestlé Purina PetCare |
| Produced by | Nestlé Purina PetCare |
| Country | Worldwide |
| Previous owners | Ralston Purina |
| Website | www.purinatreats.com/dog-treats/beggin |
Beggin’ Strips is a brand of pet food and pet snack manufactured by Nestlé Purina PetCare.[1] The product was first manufactured by Ralston Purina.[1] The product's tagline is "Dogs Don't Know It's Not Bacon," which appeared in U.S. television commercials in the 1990s.[2][dead link] The product is manufactured to resemble bacon strips.[3]
History
Beggin' Strips were first sold in 1993. Nestlé Purina started off by selling this product in North America.[4]
Nutrition
Purina Beggin' Strips contain some bacon and include other ingredients such as sodium nitrite and BHA as preservatives[5] and corn gluten meal, wheat flour, ground yellow corn, water, sugar, glycerin, soybean meal, hydrogenated starch hydrolysate, phosphoric acid, sorbic acid, natural and artificial smoke flavors. The product comes in a variety of flavors.[6]
Marketing
The trademark bag for the product features a cartoon dog licking his chops while awaiting a treat. Drawn up in 1994, the dog was named "Hamlet." Hamlet was chosen to appear in Nestlé Purina's advertising for Beggin' Strips, and to represent the product.[7]
Purina holds an annual pet parade around the time of Mardi Gras. The Parade, originally sponsored by Purina Beggin’ Strips, and now a general Purina event, is held every year in Soulard, a historic French neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri with over 5,000 pets and their owners in attendance.[8][9] St. Louis' Waterloo Courier also covered the Beggin' Strips Stupid Dog Contest on July 4, 1999. In prior years, the contest offered multiple monetary prizes, the grand prize being a $5,000 supply of Beggin' Strips per year and a trip to see the Late Show with David Letterman in New York.[10]
References
- ^ a b Oatley, D. (2005). 88% of Americans Are Abnormal: The Bentinel Takes a Skewed Look at the News. Silver Lake Publishing. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-56343-789-2. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
- ^ "Class Members Don't Know It's Not Bacon. It's BACON!". Bloomberg BNA. August 18, 2016. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
- ^ "Purina Beggin".
- ^ "Beggin Strips History". Knol.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Beggin' Time". Archived from the original on 2012-03-29.
- ^ "Beggin' Strips | Purina Treats". www.purinatreats.com. Archived from the original on 2019-06-07. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
- ^ "Pet Food Industry". Archived from the original on 2013-01-31.
- ^ "Take your crew to a Mardi Gras". Daily Herald. Middletown, New York. December 12, 2004. p. 94. Archived from the original on July 12, 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
- ^ "Blues Puppy to Grand Marshal St. Louis' Mardi Gras Pet Parade". KMOX-AM. 2019-01-30. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
- ^ "Pooches nationwide put best paws forward". Waterloo Courier. July 4, 1999. p. 35. Archived from the original on July 16, 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
Further reading
- Guide to Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Practice. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. 2007. pp. 6–96.2. ISBN 978-0-7355-6531-9. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
External links
- Official website
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Nestlé
| Divested |
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|---|---|
- Nestlé India (62.76%)
- Nestlé Pakistan
- Nestlé Canada
- Nestlé Japan
- Nestlé Malaysia
- Nestlé Lanka
- Hsu Fu Chi (60%)
- L'Oréal (30.3%)
- Osem (100%)
- Yinlu Foods (60%)
- Malher (100%)
- Lactalis-Nestlé Fresh Products
- 1 Currently manufactured by General Mills in the U.S. and Canada. Produced by Cereal Partners under the Nestlé brand elsewhere. 2 Brand owned by General Mills; U.S. and Canadian production rights controlled by Nestlé under license. 3 U.S. production rights owned by The Hershey Company. 4 U.S. rights and production owned by the Smarties Candy Company with a different product. 5 U.S. rights and specific trade dress owned by Nestlé; rights elsewhere owned by Associated British Foods. 6 Produced by Cereal Partners, branded as Nestlé. 7 Produced by Cereal Partners and branded as Nestlé in the U.K. and Ireland. Produced by Post Foods elsewhere. 8 Philippine production rights owned by Alaska Milk Corporation. 9 Singaporean, Malaysian and Thai production rights owned by Fraser and Neave. 10 Used only in Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia. 11 Used only in the Philippines. 12 U.S. production rights owned by the Ferrara Candy Company. 13 NA rights and specific trade dress to all packaged coffee and other products under the Starbucks brand owned by Nestlé since 2019. 14 Brand owned by Mars, sold by Nestlé in Canada. 15 Produced by Froneri in the U.S. since 2020.
Category
Commons
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