Her mother, Erna, worked as a hairdresser while her father Gunther worked as a cosmetics company executive.
Erna Fromm founded Fromm Family Foods in 1904 to offer a healthy, natural food to pets in Wisconsin.
Marino and his company, Active Life, partner with Fromm to produce the current Fromm canned formulas.In 1985, Tom Nieman inherited Fromm Family Foods from his grandmother, Erna.