Central Garden & Pet Company
Central Garden & Pet Co offers solutions that support healthier pets, greener lawns, and thriving gardens. Its products include dog and cat treats, chews, toys, beds, containment, grooming supplies, aquatics, small animal and bird supplies, equine and livestock products, insect control solutions, grass seed, wild bird feed, fertilizers, pest controls, live plants, and packet seeds, sold under brands such as Aqueon, Nylabone, Kaytee, Farnam, Pennington, Ferry Morse, Amdro, and Sevin. The company operates through two segments, Pet and Garden, and sells through retailers, independent stores, eCommerce channels, and professional markets. It has sales and distribution operations mainly across the United States, with additional facilities in Canada and Mexico.www.central.com
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Oct 26, 2026
Ken AndersonHOST
Um, some of the news that's been coming out recently.
Ken AndersonHOST
Um, I know I'm sure we've talked about it at some point in time, but central central garden and pet was our, probably our biggest distributor of dry goods.
Ken AndersonHOST
Um, For many, many years.
Ken AndersonHOST
There's been consolidations over the years.
Ken AndersonHOST
And he told my dad, he said, you know, if I, he said, if I can't sell ortho, he said, it's not worth being in business.
Ken AndersonHOST
So he just shut the whole thing down.
Ken AndersonHOST
California liquid fertilizer got absorbed into Central Garden and Pet.
Ken AndersonHOST
Ezell sales, which was another family owned distribution company up in LA who we'd done business with for decades.
Jordan TylerHOST
Let's start with a company most of you have in your house right now, whether you know it or not.
Jordan TylerHOST
Central Garden & Pet has been in business for nearly 50 years, and inside its dog and cat business unit sits one of the most recognizable names in the entire category.
Jordan TylerHOST
Here's Miguel Zorrilla, Senior Vice President of Marketing, with the scoop.
Miguel ZorrillaGUEST
So Nylabone is one of our legacy brands within the business unit that I'm a part of, and Nylabone has been around for seven, over 70 years at this point.
Miguel ZorrillaGUEST
... that we have, and we really make sure to reinforce that.
Jordan TylerHOST
70 years is a lot of time for trends to emerge, mature, and then die off.
Jordan TylerHOST
So how does Central Garden & Pet stay fresh? Part of it's staying on trend and understanding the difference between a seasonal fad and a long-term shift in the way that we feed and care for our pets.
Miguel ZorrillaGUEST
And I think humanization is the trend.
Aron KolosikHOST
Now, the sixth one is the most annoying one, and it's schedule changes th- from outside the plant, where somebody from sales stops out, you know, makes a phone call and says, "Hey, we need to change the schedule.
Aron KolosikHOST
We need to get this for, it's hot for a customer." And it's like, [chuckles] well, what isn't hot? Like, why would it not be in the schedule if it wasn't hot? And I remember working with a plant when I was at Central Garden & Pet as the chief supply chain officer- In that plant, would get called all the time by the sales department because they had, you know, the company had been acquired, but the salespeople were acting the same way.
Aron KolosikHOST
And they would change their schedule all the time, disrupting their flow, disrupting the cost structure and their ability to make more with less people, et cetera.
Aron KolosikHOST
But, but nobody ever questioned it.