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Bonio

Product type	Dog biscuits
Owner	Nestlé Purina PetCare
Country	United Kingdom
Introduced	1932
Previous owners	Spratt's
Website	Official website

Bonio is a brand of dog biscuit sold in the United Kingdom.^[1] It was originally sold by Spratts Patent Ltd. of London^[2] some 75 years ago,^[3] but through various acquisitions, it is now marketed by Nestlé Purina PetCare. Bonio is produced in Aintree, Liverpool.

History

Since 1932, Bonio biscuits have been traditionally oven-baked.^[3]

Product range and nutritional information

The Bonio product range is distributed from various vendors such as Tesco, Amazon, PetsAtHome, and Purina, amongst others. According to owner, Purina, their product range is as follows:

BONIO® Happy Fibre Dog Biscuits

With fibre to help support healthy digestion.
Carefully selected ingredients to help your dog maintain a healthy body condition.
Enriched with vitamins and minerals to help support overall health.
A great way to help keep your dog's teeth and gums healthy with our crunchy BONIO Happy Fibre dog biscuits.

BONIO® Meaty Chip Bitesize Dog Biscuits

With added meaty pieces in every BONIO Meaty Chip Bitesize dog biscuit.
With vitamins to support healthy skin & coat.
And these yummy cookies are tasty, nutritious and low in fat!
Each wholesome biscuit contains carefully thought through ingredients including wholegrain cereals so not only are they totally tasty they are also nutritious too!

BONIO® Meaty Chip Dog Biscuits

The perfect treat for dogs any time of day.
Wholesome and nutritious biscuits which are also low in fat!
A delicious, crunchy everyday biscuit with tasty Meaty Chips.
A complementary pet food for your dog enriched with vitamins and minerals to help support your dog's overall health.

BONIO® Mini Dog Biscuits

Enriched with vitamins (A, D, E) and minerals.
Small in size yet big in flavour!
Carefully selected ingredients inside our BONIO bitesize biscuits helps support your dog's overall health.
Complementary pet food that your dog will love.

BONIO® Original Dog Biscuits

Oven-baked to give a delicious, crunchy texture that helps keep your dog's teeth healthy.
Wholesome and nutritious - a great treat for morning, noon and night!
Low in fat to help your dog maintain a healthy body condition.
Developed using carefully selected ingredients.

BONIO® with Chicken Dog Biscuits

Delicious and nutritious wholesome dog biscuits for adult dogs.
Great for dog's teeth!
The crunchy oven baked texture helps to keep your dog’s teeth and gums healthy by helping to scrape away the plaque and to reduce the tartar build up.
Low in fat and with the delicious taste of chicken for your dog to enjoy!

According to 'Scotsman,' UK News outlet; “One Bonio dog biscuit has 78 calories, about 7 per cent of an adult Labrador's daily allowance, if it is exercised normally. This is similar to a KitKat Chunky, which has 207 calories – 8 per cent of an adult man's recommended daily calorie intake.”^[4]

References

^ "bonio - Keeping tails wagging". Purina. Archived from the original on 10 December 2013. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
^ "PURINA History". Purina. Archived from the original on 11 May 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
^ ^a ^b "What do you want to know about scrummy bonio?". Purina. Archived from the original on 20 December 2013. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
^ "Scotsman bono nutritional quote". Scotsman. Retrieved 2 July 2015.

Nestlé

Divisions

Nestlé Purina PetCare Nestlé Waters Nestlé Wyeth Nutrition
Divested	BlueTriton Brands (Nestlé Waters North America)

Subsidiaries

Nestlé India (62.76%)
Nestlé Pakistan
Nestlé Canada
Nestlé Japan
Nestlé Malaysia
Nestlé Lanka

Joint ventures

Other assets

Brands

Appliances	BabyNes Dolce Gusto Nespresso Special.T
Baby nutrition	BabyNes Bear Brand Cerelac Gerber Nido
Baking	Libby's Toll House cookies
Bottled water	Contrex Acqua Panna Perrier Princes Gate Pure Life S.Pellegrino Vittel
Cereals	Cheerios¹ Chocapic Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cookie Crisp¹ Corn Flakes Fitness Golden Grahams¹ Golden Nuggets Lion Cereal Lucky Charms¹ Milo Cereal Nesquik (cereal)^6,7 Trix¹ Shreddies⁷ Shredded Wheat⁷
Chocolate and desserts	Animal Bar Abuelita Aero Aero Biscuits After Eight Allen's Bar One Bertie Beetle Big Turk Blue Riband Black Magic Bono Breakaway Cailler Caramac Carlos V Cheekies Chokito Coffee Crisp Crisp Crunch¹² Drifter Fox's Garoto Goobers Kit Kat³ Kit Kats in Japan Kohler Life Savers¹⁴ Lion Mackintosh's Toffee Matchmakers Menier Chocolate Milkybar Milo Mirage Munchies Negresco Nestlé Milk Chocolate Passatempo Peppermint Crisp Perugina Polo Quality Street Red Ripperz Rolo³ Rowntree's Rowntree's Fruit Gums Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles Sin Parar Smarties⁴ Svitoch TEX Walnut Whip White Knight Yorkie Zvečevo
Coffee and beverages	Abuelita Alpine⁸ Acticor BabyNes Blue Bottle Coffee Boost Carnation^8,9 Caro Chameleon Cold-Brew Chuckie Coffee-Mate Dolce Gusto Huesitos Klim La Lechera Menier Milo cocoa Nescafé Nescafé Azera Nescafé Gold Nescau Nesfruta Nespresso Nesquik Nestea Ovaltine⁴ Ricoré Seattle's Best Coffee Starbucks ¹³ Supligen Sweet Leaf Zoégas
Dairy products	Alpine⁸ Bear Brand^10,11 Carnation^8,9 Coffee-Mate La Lechera Nesquik
Ice cream	D'Onofrio Drumstick¹⁵ Eskimo Pie¹⁵ Fab Frosty Paws¹⁵ Häagen-Dazs^2,15 Hjem-IS Ice Screamers Kit Kat¹⁵ Maxibon Mövenpick Parlour Savory Smarties
Prepared and packaged food and snacks	Buitoni California Pizza Kitchen DiGiorno Herta Hot Pockets Lean Cuisine Libby's Lean Pockets Maggi Stouffer's Thomy Tombstone Uncle Tobys Winiary Wagner Yinlu Foods
Purina PetCare	Alpo Bakers Complete Beggin' Strips Beneful Bonio Dog Chow Fancy Feast Felix Friskies Frosty Paws ONE Winalot
Uncle Tobys	Cheerios¹ PLUS Weeties
Former brands and subsidiaries	Alcon Alfasigma Arrowhead Butterfinger Baby Ruth Chocolate Surpresa Deer Park Dreyer's¹⁵ Enviga Gale's Galderma Laboratories Cetaphil Epiduo Restylane Hoadley's Ice Mountain Jenny Craig Ozarka Peter's Chocolate Poland Spring Polly Waffle PowerBar Powwow Water Rowntree Mackintosh Violet Crumble Wonder Ball Zephyrhills

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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.

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