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Zooplus welcomes EQT takeover offer

Zooplus, a major European online pet platform, has welcomed a voluntary public takeover offer by global investment organization EQT, at an offer price of €470 (£400) per share in cash.  This represents a €10 (£8.53) increase compared to the takeover offer previously published by Hellman and Friedman on 14 September,…

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Zooplus sales rise 16% in H1

Zooplus, Europe’s leading online pet platform, has announced that total H1 sales rose by 16% to €1bn (£858m), up from €862m (£739m) the previous year, as it continued its sustainable growth path in the first six month of the year.  It said this growth was driven by the company’s “large…

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Zooplus welcomes ‘successful’ Q1 trading

Zooplus revealed it has had a “successful” first quarter of trading, maintaining “uninterrupted operations” despite the worldwide pandemic.  In the first quarter of the year, total sales rose by 21% to €439.9m (£389m) against €363.2m (£321m) the year prior.  The group said that this was “primarily driven” by “loyal existing…

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Burns Pet Food announces winner of ‘golden ticket’ campaign

Welsh pet food company, Burns Pet Nutrition, has announced the winner of its competition to win a year’s supply of free dog food, in celebration of its 25th anniversary as a business. Four-year-old Border Collie Jasper, from Oxfordshire, is the latest winner of the competition, after his owner found a…

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Pet care sees internet retailing boom

Internet retailing is the fastest growing channel in the pet care market. New data from Euromonitor International reports global growth of nearly 90 percent. As more people than ever enjoy internet access, customers are increasingly buying pet products at a click of a button. The market intelligence publisher attributes the boom to round-the-clock…

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