Amazon
Amazon is a dominant force in the UK petcare retail landscape, influencing everything from pricing strategies to customer expectations around convenience and delivery. This tag explores Amazon’s role and impact within the pet industry — from its growing share in pet product sales to the implications for independent retailers, large pet retail chains, and supply chain operators. Pet Gazette’s coverage under this tag includes news on Amazon’s latest initiatives, partnerships, and private label developments, as well as business analysis on how sellers in the pet sector are navigating Amazon Marketplace. We also report on trends in fulfilment, logistics, and consumer behaviour shaped by Amazon’s presence, with insights valuable to manufacturers, distributors, and B2B suppliers seeking to compete or collaborate with the e-commerce giant.
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Feb- 2020 -5 FebruaryBusiness Bites
Tesla, Macy’s and organic food: serious change is afoot
Sometimes change is sudden and surprising, but sometimes it bubbles away under the surface for decades before making a serious impact, and in today’s roundup I have a few examples of the latter to highlight. First, there is Tesla. The firm led by billionaire space-AI Elon Musk has long been…
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Jan- 2020 -31 JanuaryBusiness Bites
The whole Amazon thing is getting scary now
The ‘growth of online retail’ is now so proverbial that the phrase itself is nearly redundant. Is anyone surprised to learn this morning that Amazon has absolutely rampaged through the Christmas retail season, while scores of well-known bricks-and-mortar retailers reported a torrid set of financial results for the same period? No, me…
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29 JanuaryBusiness Bites
British Airways gets flighty and Starbucks smells the coffee over coronavirus
The business response to the coronavirus situation, which appears to be developing into a serious crisis, continues apace today. British Airways today announced that it was suspending all flights between the UK and Wuhan, the Chinese city where the virus originally broke out. In a statement it said: “We have…
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23 JanuaryBusiness Bites
Asos bounces back from tricky period
Back in July last year Retail Sector reported that Asos was having problems. It had issued a profit warning, suggesting profits were likely to be about one-third of what was originally anticipated. It was an interesting moment in the retail world, because the narrative for the whole of the last…
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22 JanuaryBusiness Bites
Ted Baker hanging by a thread amid £58m balance sheet black hole
If you have shares in Ted Baker, you are probably not having a good morning. The price has tanked by almost 7% after news broke that the fashion brand has found a £58m black hole in its accounts. There’s being a few hundred thousand or a few million short, but when…
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17 JanuaryBusiness Bites
The trillion-dollar club has gained Google as a member
Remember at school when teachers used to explain how one million was an essentially incomprehensibly large number? I recall one of mine showing the number represented on a huge rolled out piece of paper as wide and long as a carpet, with precisely one million individual dots. I was about…
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Nov- 2019 -14 NovemberFeatures
The ins and outs of pet care marketing
Today, you could be forgiven for thinking that family affections towards pets are often equal to or greater than that of a cherished child. From birth into their forever home to those final, heart-wrenching days, a pet is part of the fabric of its owner’s daily life. No holiday, festival…
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Sep- 2019 -24 SeptemberPet Owners
One in five UK pet owners move to keep their pets happy, study finds
Nearly one in five (19%) UK pet owners have moved home to keep their pets happy, according to a new study into the behaviour and attitudes of pet owners by Amazon to celebrate the launch of the Face of Amazon Pets 2019 competition. According to the poll of 1,500 pet…
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3 SeptemberFeatures
Retail advice – If you are not online already, should you be?
Two important factors for the growth of your business are the ability to find new customers and positive communicate with existing ones. If you capture these two then you should be on for a successful sales record. Online presence, through one of the selling platforms available, or your own e-commerce…
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Jul- 2019 -3 JulyManufacturers
Aldi launches indoor camera for pets
Supermarket chain Aldi has launched the Yale Indoor Camera, a device which will allow people to keep an eye on what is going on in their home whilst they are away. As well as giving homeowners confidence that their property is safe and secure, the in-home security camera can “reveal…
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