Royal Canin

Royal Canin is a Mars Petcare brand, and our records list its manufacturing as France / Multiple, with no Australian manufacture recorded. That puts it at the corporate end of the market: the recipes belong to a global group, not an independent maker. What group scale buys is written into its recorded strengths, with highly consistent formulas plus strong veterinary backing and research, alongside a breed- and condition-specific range our index describes as unmatched.

Transparency scores 66 out of 100, and the shape of the disclosure explains the number. Ownership and formats are stated plainly, but the manufacturing entry reads France / Multiple, telling a buyer the range comes out of several countries without tying any bag to a particular plant. The ingredient declarations we hold follow the same pattern: Medium Adult opens with maize / rice listed as cereals, the veterinary diet with cereals / rice, grouped listings rather than one named grain, let alone a named meat. You learn who owns it and broadly where it is made; finer sourcing detail is not disclosed in the data we index.

The catalogue spans dry, wet and prescription formats, structured around breed sizes and clinical conditions rather than a ladder of flavours. In our index the everyday anchor is Medium Adult, a 15kg dry bag built for medium-breed adult dogs: an estimated $159, which works out at $10.60 per kg and roughly $2.60 a day feeding a 15kg dog, from a panel declaring 25 per cent protein and 14 per cent fat. It sits in our top price tier, and every figure on this page is an editorial estimate rather than a live shelf price.

The Gastrointestinal veterinary diet is the second indexed line, and it shows how the range steps up. The format stays identical, a 15kg dry bag, but the estimated price moves from $159 to $219, stretching the per-kilo spread across the two SKUs from $10.60 to $14.60. Composition shifts with the job: protein eases to 23 per cent while fat lifts to 18. There is no small bag, no priced wet line and no bulk size in our data, so the range as we hold it is two 15kg decisions. Therapeutic diets are fed on a vet's instruction; nothing here is veterinary advice.

Every stockist on Royal Canin's record is a pet specialist. Petbarn, Petstock and PETO run physical stores, while Pet Circle, Budget Pet Products and Habitat sell online. No supermarket carries it in our data, so this is not a bag that lands in the trolley with the groceries: restocking means a pet-store visit or a delivery, and a little planning before the current bag runs out. The availability score of 80 out of 100 reflects exactly that footprint: six specialist retailers giving the brand broad reach of the specialist kind rather than the grocery-aisle kind.

The prescription line narrows the map further. Of the six stockists, only Petbarn, Pet Circle and Petstock hold a price on the Gastrointestinal veterinary diet in our data, and the retailer records suggest why: Habitat is flagged for a limited prescription range, Budget Pet Products for a thinner one, and PETO's prescription depth is recorded as narrower than Petbarn's or Pet Circle's. All six list the brand, but a vet-directed Royal Canin diet realistically routes through those three. That purchase starts in a consult room, not on a shelf, so treat this as stockist information only; it is not veterinary advice.