pet food founded 1936 area served worldwide products dog food owner nestl purina petcare website www.alpo.com alpo is an american brand of dog food marketed and manufactured by the nestl purina petcare subsidiary of nestl . the brand is offered as a canned or packaged soft food as well as in dry kibbles . contents 1 history 2 marketing 3 references 4 external links history edit alpo an abbreviation of allen products was founded in 1936 by robert f. hunsicker in allentown pennsylvania . in 1964 the allen products company was acquired by liggett & myers tobacco company . in 1980 the liggett & myers tobacco company was acquired by grand metropolitan and in 1986 grand metropolitan sold the liggett group but kept alpo petfoods inc. in 1995 nestl sa acquired alpo petfoods inc. from grand metropolitan . in january 2001 nestl sa announced the merger of nestl friskies with ralston purina to form the nestl purina petcare company . 1 marketing edit for many years the brand s main television commercial spokesman was lorne greene who created the concept of eating one s own dog food by claiming that alpo is so good he feeds it to his own dogs . ed mcmahon also had a long association with the product on television and garfield was a spokescat for the brand in the 1990s . alpo was the sponsor of the debut broadcast of the long running television news magazine 60 minutes on september 24 1968 . citation needed alpo is also known for its marketing campaigns that target the owners of real dogs making light of consumers who pamper their dogs . 2 3 references edit carman tim 2009 04 16 food history potpourri ralston purina s d.c. roots washington city paper retrieved 2009 10 19 alpo gets to the meat of the problem . brandweek . 2009 02 27 . brian quinton 2009 08 20 . alpo contest on the hunt for just plain dogs . promo magazine . external links edit alpo brand dog food press release on recall from purina.com alpo tv ad with ed mcmahon v t e nestl brands appliances babynes dolce 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international code of marketing of breast milk substitutes nescaf basement 1 currently manufactured by general mills in the united states and canada . produced by cereal partners under the nestl brand elsewhere . 2 brand owned by general mills ; us and canadian production rights controlled by nestl under license . 3 us production rights owned by the hershey company . 4 canadian production rights owned by the hershey company . 5 us rights and production owned by smarties candy company with a different product . 6 us rights and specific trade dress owned by nestl ; rights elsewhere owned by associated british foods . 7 produced by cereal partners branded as nestl . 8 produced by cereal partners and branded nestl in the united kingdom and ireland . produced by post foods elsewhere . category commons retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title alpo pet food & oldid 742101232 categories dog food brandsnestl brandsproducts introduced in 1936ralston purina productshidden 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