The Purina connection has more to do with Koch's oil refining and trading divisions.
Buying Purina and Kosa will help Koch to learn more about the animal feed and resin markets.
America's Federal Trade Commission took almost a year to approve the takeover of Ralston Purina in 2001.
Koch plans to unite its petroleum engineers with Purina's scientists to come up with high- quality, lower-cost blends.
Koch already has the tenth-largest cattle-feeding operation in the U.S., but that's not the reason it bought the Purina operation.
Furthermore, the marketing of the seed was fragmented, with individual gins trying to negotiate with the likes of Palmolive, Wesson Oil, and Ralston-Purina.
Sure, these shows are populated by cattle consultants and steeped in product puffery (the health benefits of Purina's "Goat Chow" are talked up like a bowl of granola).
Friskies is the largest cat food brand at Purina, and as the brand team looked at the explosion of cat videos they wondered how their brand could play a role.
But the Purina Pro Plan P5 app has been designed by scientists and proved by rescue dogs that just about any K9 can be trained to become an agility dog.
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Ralston-Purina is another major customer for cottonseed meal.
The mayor was also hurt during the home stretch of the campaign when Ralston Purina, a giant food corporation, an nounced it was thinking of moving out of the city, and when the only public hospital in the region said it would close this summer because the city had failed to contribute its share of the budget.
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