In This Issue
Revealed: Top 50 pet industry news stories of 2018
Merry Christmas to all Pet Trade Xtra readers
Owner ‘distraught’ after Pets at Home grooming incident
New appointments at pet food firm
HOWND set to launch Hemp Wellness Treats Starter Pack with free counter display
HiLife’s natural pet food range in Top Products List
Chuckit! plays Santa Paws to homeless pups
Nutrition experts reveal results of Ambassador campaign
Pet food company partners with leading rugby club
Aviemore’s on the horizon for CSJ team
Partnership aims to improve outcomes for pets
The best of the previous Pet Trade Xtra
Pet shop owner devastated by £60,000 raid
Natural Instinct recalls Wild Venison cat food
Law Print partners on refresh of grain-free pet food brand
Vet issues winter warning to dog owners
International interest soars in PATS trade exhibition
National award for pet-tech product entrepreneur
Vet students strip off for a good cause
Specialist retailer branches out into dog treats
Plans to turn former pet store into shop selling pies and pasties
WHIMZEES releases seasonally-shaped dental chews
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Revealed: Top 50 pet industry news stories of 2018

It has been an amazing and eventful year for the UK pet industry with lots of companies making headline news (good and bad) as well as scores of exciting and innovative new products being launched. In this, the 50th and final Pet Trade Xtra bulletin of the year, what better way to look back on 2018 than through the Top 50 best-read stories?

 

 

Mutt & Co Pet Boutique (pictured above) in Hartlepool, Teesside, has only been open for just over a year and progress has been so dramatic that the store has been crowned UK Pet Retailer of the Year at the PetQuip Awards. It was the 4th most read story of the year.

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Merry Christmas to all Pet Trade Xtra readers

This is the 50th and final issue of Pet Trade Xtra for 2018. We would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Thanks for your continued interest in our weekly newsletter and just tio let you know we'll be back on Thursday, January 3rd.

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Owner ‘distraught’ after Pets at Home grooming incident
 

A pet owner has been left “distraught” after part of his dog’s tongue was cut off by a Pets at Home groomer, reports the Peterborough Telegraph.

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New appointments at pet food firm

 

The number of employees at the Real Petfood Company has more than doubled from 30 to 65 since the firm moved to its current site at Kinmel Park in Bodelwyddan some two years ago. The latest appointments are Ceri Twist as Technical Services Manager and Ross Dilworth as an electrical & software engineering apprentice...

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HOWND set to launch Hemp Wellness Treats Starter Pack with free counter display
 

OWND will be launching starter packs of its award-winning range of 100% natural Hemp Wellness Treats in the New Year.  When ordering a case of 10 units per variety (total x 50 units) customers will receive a free branded counter display unit...

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HiLife’s natural pet food range in Top Products List

 

Specialist petfood brand, HiLife, celebrates as its range of natural dog and cat food is named Top Launch for the Petcare category, by The Grocer in its Top Products Survey 2018.

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Chuckit! plays Santa Paws to homeless pups

 

Christmas comes early for the homeless pups at the Godmanchester Wood Green centre thanks to a recent delivery of dog toys, which has been gifted to them by leading dog toy brand Chuckit!...

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Nutrition experts reveal results of Ambassador campaign


In 2018, leading pet food brand EUKANUBA launched a pioneering programme, searching the country to find five incredibly special dogs of different life stages. They would become the official EUKANUBA Live Life Well Together Ambassadors...

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Pet food company partners with leading rugby club

 

Skinner’s Pet foods has become an official club partner of dog-loving Gloucester Rugby Club...

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Aviemore’s on the horizon for CSJ team
 

As a sponsor of The Siberian Husky Club of Great Britain Aviemore Sled Dog Rally the CSJ team will be on hand mingling with the crowds, posting live on social media and interviewing the mushers...

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Partnership aims to improve outcomes for pets

 

Simplyhealth and Felcana have announced that they are to collaborate as strategic partners. Simplyhealth’s expertise in preventive health plans will support the efforts of Felcana’s team of veterinary surgeons, data scientists and engineers, with a view to understanding how pet health plans can support the development of its state-of- the-art digital platforms and technologies.

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