Southampton

Healthy Pet Store appoints new store manager

Southampton pet food and accessories retailer Healthy Pet Store has promoted Hannah Crewe to store manager. Established in 2014, Healthy Pet Store is an independent retailer selling a wide range of raw pet food, training gear and functional toys. Crewe, previously assistant store manager, will take on a “strategic” role…

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Southampton pet superstore appoints new operations manager

A pet food and accessory superstore in Southampton has appointed a new operations manager ahead of its expansion, just two years after launching its new store. Healthy Pet Store has promoted current store manager Richard Wall to operations manager as it prepares to open a second store. Wall has joined…

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Healthy Pet Store welcomes regional dog trainer

Healthy Pet Store, a Southampton based pet food and accessory retailer, has welcomed a local dog trainer, Anita Takacs, to its customer advisor team in a bid to improve knowledge and expertise across Hampshire. Anita Takacs is a professional dog trainer and body language instructor who focuses on care, compassion…

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Southampton pet superstore wins BizX Retailer of the Year

Southampton pet superstore, Healthy Pet Store, has been crowned the 2022 best retailer of the year at the national BizX Awards. Healthy Pet Store based in Totton was named the best retailer of the year partly as a result of its sales growth since launching in 2014, as well as…

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Healthy Pet Store wins national retail award

An independent pet retailer, Healthy Pet Store, has been awarded the ‘Bricks ‘N’ Clicks’ award at the Modern Retail Awards. The Southampton store delivers to Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, West Sussex and the Isle of Wight Managing director Deborah Burrows said: “I was absolutely delighted that Healthy Pet Store won a…

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Entrepreneurs relief may be scrapped by Sunak

The new chancellor, Rishi Sunak, may scrap entrepreneur’s relief to raise £3bn a year as a means to bring in some extra dosh for the Treasury. Sunak will undoubtedly be looking for ways to raise extra revenue given the government’s infrastructure spending plans as it seeks to make a visible…

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Southampton is the UK’s most ‘pet-friendliest’ city, study suggests

Southampton is the pet-friendliest city in the UK for renters, according to insurance company Towergate. Ranking factors in the study included the percentage of available rentals with a garden, percentage of available rentals listed as ‘pets allowed’, affordable rentals listed as ‘pets allowed’, lack of pet owner rent price ‘penalty’…

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Southampton Airport employs therapy dogs

Southampton International Airport has announced it will appoint a group of therapy dogs to aid nervous passengers. The ‘Canine Crew’, a pack of therapy dogs from Therapy Dogs Nationwide, will be “on a mission” to help soothe nervous fliers and passengers with hidden disabilities.  The dogs will be stationed in…

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Rise in toxic blue green algae cases prompts vet warning

An increase in reports of toxic blue green algae in several locations across the UK this summer is prompting the British Veterinary Association (BVA) to urge pet owners to take extra precautions while walking their dogs in the vicinity of affected water bodies. The warning also comes after news from…

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The Vet relaunches Southampton centre

Veterinary group the Vet has reopened its Southampton surgery, and will be hosting an open day on 31 August. The branch has six consultation rooms, two operating theatres, x-ray, ultrasound, in-house laboratory. Services include vaccinations and pet passports, orthopaedic surgery and dentals. The centre also has separate cat and dog…

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