Big Heart Pet Brands is a producer, distributor and marketer of branded pet products for the U.S. retail market. Big Heart Pet Brands has some of the strongest brands in the pet food and pet snacks business, including Meow Mix, Kibbles ‘n Bits, Milk-Bone and 9Lives. Big Heart Pet Brands, previously the pet food division of Del Monte Foods, was acquired by The J. M. Smucker Company in 2015.