Michael DiTullio owns a 7-store chain in the Massachusetts area and has successfully grown the company Facebook page to over 3,400 “likes,” meaning customers and potential customers who follow the pet store via social media. Having that following helps DiTullio’s “Especially For Pets” group of stores leverage their good works with animal rescues and creates a [...]
Michael Dagne, owner of the 12-store chain, Moochie & Company, lives by the popular retail motto, “location, location, location.”  To that end, Moochie & Co. has purposely targeted malls in the Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky areas as the place to be when it comes to building stores. While you do have to adhere to mall rules [...]
According to statistics coming out of the Petailing Leadership Conference, total pet retail sales were down 5% in 2009 from 2008 when the recession officially began. That’s not to say the news was all doom and gloom. Pets are spreading to older households with adults 45, 55 and older (empty nest substitutes?), natural pet foods showed [...]
Fresh from the Petailing Leadership conference in Las Vegas, we interviewed David Lummis. David is the senior pet market analyst for market research publisher Packaged Facts. He is also author of the monthly “Market Outlook†column in Pet Product News International, and a regular contributor of articles and market insight to other pet industry magazines [...]
I’m excited to report that we’ve scheduled a video interview with Bob Vetere, president of the American Pet Products Association (APPA) while we’re out at the Petailing Leadership Conference , October 27 & 28, 2010 at The Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas. At the two-day conference, Bob will be the keynote speaker on the second [...]
Lately it seems that all roads lead to Las Vegas when it comes to what’s going on in the pet industry. Fresh back from Super Zoo  I’ll be returning to “Sin City” for the first-ever pet retailers leadership conference. Sessions include such topics as the State of The Industry, retailer/supplier case studies and a keynote [...]
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