{"topic_id":"market_stats_it_assalco_2024","category":"it-market-stats","context":"---\ntopic_id: market_stats_it_assalco_2024\ncategory: it-market-stats\ntitle: \"Italy — ASSALCO 2024: dog+cat food market >€3.1B (+3.7% vs 2023); cat food 56.3% value; wet 49% share\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"ASSALCO (Associazione Nazionale Imprese Alimenti Animali da Compagnia) — 'Il mercato degli alimenti per animali da compagnia in Italia' (assalco.it), first-hand Italian pet-food industry association report (ASSALCO-Zoomark survey), pulled 2026-08-18 (Tavily /extract)\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/market-stats/it_assalco_mercato_2024_2026-08-18.txt\nsource_document: \"ASSALCO — Il mercato degli alimenti per animali da compagnia in Italia (2024 data)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"ASSALCO (Italian pet-food industry association)\"\n  title: \"Italy — ASSALCO 2024: dog+cat food market >€3.1B (+3.7% vs 2023); cat food 56.3% value; wet 49% share\"\n  url: \"https://www.assalco.it/pagina184_il-mercato-degli-alimenti-per-animali-da-compagnia-in-italia.html\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-08-18\"\n  ref: \"ASSALCO — Il mercato degli alimenti per animali da compagnia in Italia (2024)\"\n  doc_type: \"published industry association report (first-hand, 🟢)\"\n  needs_review: false\nauthority_tier: T4\nauthority_tier_basis: \"manual:ASSALCO (Italian pet-food industry association) report\"\nauthority_tier_date: 2026-08-18\ndate_parsed: 2026-08-18\ntokens_estimated: 430\nverification:\n  method: substring_match\n  claims: 11\n  passed: 11\n  date: 2026-08-18\n---\n\n# Italy — pet-food market size, growth, species and channel (ASSALCO 2024)\n\nSource: ASSALCO \"Il mercato degli alimenti per animali da compagnia in Italia\" (assalco.it), a first-hand Italian pet-food industry association report (ASSALCO-Zoomark survey), pulled 2026-08-18. All figures verbatim from the source (Italian original; English in parentheses).\n\n## Market size and growth (dog & cat food, Grocery + specialized channel, 2024)\n- \"Nel 2024 i prodotti per l'alimentazione di cani e gatti … hanno sviluppato in Italia un giro d'affari nel canale Grocery + specializzato che ha superato i 3,1 miliardi di euro, con un aumento a valore del 3,7% rispetto al 2023.\" (dog & cat food retail sales exceeded €3.1 billion, +3.7% value vs 2023)\n- \"tasso medio di crescita (CAGR) dal 2021 al 2024 a valore pari al +9,8%, che ha portato il mercato dai 2,4 miliardi di euro del 2021 ai 3,1 del 2024.\" (CAGR +9.8% 2021–2024; €2.4B→€3.1B)\n- Volumes dipped: \"segnano un -1,4%\" (volumes -1.4% in 2024, realigning to 2021 level)\n\n## Species split (2024)\n- \"I prodotti per gatto rappresentano il 56,3% del valore complessivo, con un fatturato di 1.758 milioni di euro, e mostrano una dinamica in crescita (+5% rispetto al 2023)\" (cat food 56.3% of value, €1,758M, +5%)\n- \"prodotti per cane segnano un +2,1% di aumento, attestandosi a 1.367 milioni di euro\" (dog food €1,367M, +2.1%)\n\n## Product-format split (2024)\n- \"il segmento degli alimenti umidi si conferma il più importante con il 49% di quota e mostra una crescita a valore del 4,3%. Seguono gli alimenti secchi con il 40,4% di quota di mercato e un aumento a valore del 13,4%.\" (wet food 49% share, +4.3% value; dry 40.4% share, +13.4% value)\n\n## Distribution channels (2024)\n- \"Catene+Petshop GDO\" (pet-specialist chains + GDO) posted double-digit value growth for wet dog (+10.5%) and wet cat (+14.1%), and solid growth for dry dog (+8.6%) and dry cat (+9.7%).\n- \"Grocery\" and \"Petshop Tradizionali\" (traditional pet shops) grew more modestly (wet dog/cat +3.2%; dry cat +2.6%/+3.0%; dry dog only in traditional pet shops +2.3%).\n- Other companion-animal food: \"Nel 2024 il mercato 'alimenti per altri animali da compagnia' ha registrato un fatturato pari a 13,4 milioni di euro presso la GDO\" (other-pet food €13.4M via GDO, -3.9% value).\n\n## Honest gaps\n- Pet **population / ownership** counts (dogs, cats) are published in ASSALCO's separate Zoomark survey, not in this market-report page; left as an honest gap rather than filled from a second-hand source.\n- Only the Grocery + specialized-channel figure (€3.1B) is quoted; the broader pet food + pet care total (which a later 2025 ASSALCO-Zoomark brief puts at €5.3B including e-commerce) is out of scope of this 2024 page and not quoted here.\n\nSource: `pdf-raw/market-stats/it_assalco_mercato_2024_2026-08-18.txt` — ASSALCO Italy market report, pulled 2026-08-18.\n","sources":["it-market-stats — Italy — ASSALCO 2024: dog+cat food market >€3.1B (+3.7% vs 2023); cat food 56.3% value; wet 49% share (retrieved 2026-08-18)"],"source":{"authority":"it-market-stats","title":"Italy — ASSALCO 2024: dog+cat food market >€3.1B (+3.7% vs 2023); cat food 56.3% value; wet 49% share","url":"https://www.assalco.it/pagina184_il-mercato-degli-alimenti-per-animali-da-compagnia-in-italia.html","retrieved":"2026-08-18","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"ASSALCO — Il mercato degli alimenti per animali da compagnia in Italia (2024 data)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/market-stats/it_assalco_mercato_2024_2026-08-18.txt"},"source_document":"ASSALCO — Il mercato degli alimenti per animali da compagnia in Italia (2024 data)","source_file":"pdf-raw/market-stats/it_assalco_mercato_2024_2026-08-18.txt","trust":{"authority_tier":"T4","fidelity":"verbatim","license":null,"display_grade":"B"},"tokens_estimated":796,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}