Industry News
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Nov- 2021 -5 November
Burns Pet Nutrition to soothe dogs during bonfire night with new campaign
Burns Pet Nutrition has announced it will be launching a national PR, digital and social media campaign, to keep dogs calm on bonfire night. The company has linked up with Blue star Duncan James to launch new music designed to soothe animals during this year’s firework season. Animal behaviourists from…
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5 November
DoGood reveals carbon balanced packaging
DoGood has launched its new carbon balanced packaging to match its product’s eco-credentials. The brand offers a 100% plant-based, healthy, fresh, “nutritionally complete and balanced dog food with a low environmental impact”. In collaboration with Newton Print, the start-up said it produced printed cardboard sleeves made from certified FSC cardboard…
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4 November
Dog Lover Show Glasgow SEC & The Event Complex Aberdeen
Scotland’s favourite dog show returns for 2022! In addition to Glasgow, The Dog Lover Show will be arriving in Aberdeen in March 2022. We welcome new and existing exhibitors the opportunity to book space and reach a lucrative Scottish dog loving audience. Consumer demand and the success at Glasgow’s SEC…
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4 November
PrettyLittleThing launches dog Christmas advent calendar
PrettyLittleThing has announced the launch of a new Christmas dog advent calendar. The calendar contains 24 treats and is made from a 3mm card that measures 40.5 x 45 cm and features two support shelves. Also included in the calendar are 24 red elastic tags and two sticky pads for…
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4 November
Footfall improves during October
October footfall saw a “noticeable improvement” to -13.4% lower than in 2019 compared with -17.4% in September, according to the latest figures from Springboard. The final week of the month, which included the October school half term, was “pivotal” in boosting footfall, shifting the average from -14.3% over the first…
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4 November
Local doggy daycare and hotel wins National Industry Award
Derbyshire-based company Rose Cottage Doggy Day Care and its Luxury Doggy Hotel has been awarded the Kennel of th Year at the Pet Industry Federation Awards (PIF). Dawn Brown founded Rose Cottage in December 2017 and has helped grow the business to its current size looking after over 2000 clients…
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3 November
Tails.com to share dog health insights through Data Labs
Pet food service tails.com has said it aims to use its “unique” data and insights to improve the lives of dogs and their owners with the launch of Data Labs. The group has gathered information on the health, wellbeing and life expectancy of hundreds of thousands of dogs since 2014. …
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3 November
Pets at Home CEO to step down
Pets at Home has announced that Peter Pritchard, after eleven years in the business, intends to step down from his role as CEO and director of the company next summer. This follows the “successful turnaround” of the business, in which he developed the group’s pet care plan in support of…
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2 November
Quarter of a million cats living rough in UK urban areas, charity finds
Around a quarter of a million cats are thought to be “living rough” in the UK’s towns and cities, according to new research from Cats Protection. The new study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, provides the very first national estimate of the number of unowned cats in the UK’s…
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2 November
Footfall surges during half-term break
Footfall across UK retail destinations rose by 11.1% last week from the week before, according to latest data from Springboard. This is just shy of the 11.6% week on week increase in the week before the late May bank holiday. High streets and shopping centres benefited the most with rises…
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