High Street
The high street remains a vital battleground for pet retailers, balancing in-person service with growing digital competition. Pet Gazette covers the role of independent pet shops, regional chains, and national retailers on UK high streets — reporting on shop openings and closures, rent pressures, footfall trends, and evolving customer expectations. We also examine localised marketing strategies, product merchandising, and how high street stores adapt to omni-channel retail. For wholesalers and suppliers, this tag offers visibility into the challenges and opportunities facing brick-and-mortar stockists across towns and cities.
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Jun- 2021 -9 JuneManufacturers
Johnson’s marks 100-year milestone
Johnson’s Veterinary Products, a leading UK supplier of pet healthcare products, is celebrating its milestone of 100 years in business, with a range of events designed to highlight the role of local pet stores in pet-owners’ lives. The business was founded in West Bromwich in 1921 by the Johnson family,…
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May- 2021 -28 MayRetailers
Retail NI welcomes top up grants
Retail NI has welcomed the commencement of the issuing of £72.3m in top up grants to Northern Irish businesses that remained open during the most recent restrictions. Over 13,000 trading businesses were unable to receive the most recent financial support, but their “trade and footfall” was still impacted as a…
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18 MayEconomy
Retail footfall rises 0.5% as shoppers return to high streets
UK retail footfall rose by 0.5% last week, predominantly driven by a 3.9% increase across UK high streets, as shoppers continued to return to high streets following the easing of restrictions last month. According to the latest data from Springboard, whilst retail footfall overall increased, retail parks footfall declined by 3.4%…
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17 MayAppointment
Town & Country Petfoods expands e-commerce focus
Town and Country Petfoods, the owner of the HiLife brand for cats and dogs, has promoted Gareth Ramsden to the new role of head of E-Commerce and Digital Marketing. Ramsden joined the company a year ago to manage the launch of the group’s new webstore. The latest role forms part…
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5 MayRetailers
UK retail footfall hit by bad weather
New data from Springboard has revealed that footfall at UK retail destinations dropped by 2% last week from the previous seven-day period, despite the reopening of non-essential retail stores across the country. The footfall decrease was primarily due to a considerable drop of 6.1% in high street footfall, despite footfall…
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Apr- 2021 -14 AprilEconomy
First day of reopening sees UK footfall rise 155%
The first day of reopening saw footfall in UK retail destinations rose yesterday by +155.2% from the same day last week, and by +225.2% in shopping centres, according to the latest data from Springboard. It found the rise in footfall in high streets was slightly lower at +176.1% and was perhaps…
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10 AprilIndustry News
Advances in veterinary ophthalmology
With so much of life appearing to grind to a halt over the past year, it is easy to lose sight of progress happening away from the eerily quiet high streets. Just as with human medicine, the world of veterinary medicine and research has been progressing, despite the challenging circumstances.…
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7 AprilEconomy
UK retail footfall rises as lockdown comes to end
Footfall across all retail destinations in the UK has jumped by 8.5% in the last week, from the week before, as consumers prepare for the country’s exit from lockdown. Retail parks and high streets saw a footfall increase of 9% and 9.7%, according to data analyst Springboard. Meanwhile, footfall in…
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Mar- 2021 -29 MarchRetailers
Extended retail opening hours to continue post-lockdown
The extended daily opening hours for non-essential retail are set to continue in a bid to encourage people back to the highstreet, according to the government. Communities secretary Robert Jenrick said the move will “help ensure the safe re-opening of non-essential shops by giving people greater flexibility to avoid peak…
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22 MarchEconomy
Gov launches £56m high street fund
The government has announced a new £56m investment into UK high streets and seaside towns to ensure a “successful reopening” of the sector this summer. The ‘Welcome Back Fund’ aims to help councils improve the “look and feel” of local high streets, by investing in street planting, parks, green spaces…
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