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Scampers joins Pets Corner group Weenect expands into new markets

Scampers Natural Pet Store in It is reported that the store will The French company Weenect, Weenect has been work-
Cambridgeshire is to become still be called Scampers and will which claims to be the market ing on the development of GPS
part of the Pets Corner group, ac- be unique within the Pets Corner leader in France and Belgium in trackers for over eight years
cording to online news service Pet- family. Although technically re- GPS trackers for dogs and cats, and has extensive experience
businessworld.co.uk. Scampers, tiring, the former owners Piers has now established a marketing in this growth segment, which
named Joint UK Pet Retailer of the and Michelle Smart will still be department to handle distribution in is also growing in importance
Year in the 2020 PetQuip awards, involved in much of the accessory the German-speaking countries and in the pet sector. According
has been owned and run by Piers buying, consulting and product the Netherlands. The company in- to Weenect, it is already rep-
Smart and his wife, Michelle, since innovation. Pets Corner wants to tends to work closely with pet stores resented in more than 2 000
it opened in 1985. update the store. and veterinarians in this initiative. stores in Europe.
Eurazeo invests in
Ultra Premium Direct

The Paris-based private equity com- Advertisement
pany Eurazeo intends to invest 68
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as majority shareholder. Eurazeo
was formed in 2001 by a merger be-
tween Eurafrance and Azeo, which leading company in the French
were originally holding companies market for premium pet food.
of the Lazard Group in France. It markets dog and cat food di-
Established in 2013, Ultra rectly to consumers in a number
Premium Direct is regarded as a of European countries.
Since it was established, the company has sold more than 100 000 GPS
trackers.
UK: How much people spend
on their pets
Pet 360 sold
More than half (51 per cent) of people spend on dogs (56 per
the UK population has a pet, with cent in each city), followed by United Petfood Italia has an- network of stores served in Italy.
some people spending over 3 500 Edinburgh (53 per cent) and nounced the sale of Pet 360, From September, the aim will be
GBP a year on their animals, ac- Brighton (51 per cent). Spend- a manufacturer of dog and cat
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cording to a data analysis from ing on cats is highest in Not- food. The company has been
Idealo.co.uk. Pet toys, clothes, tingham, where 68 per cent of acquired by entrepreneur Mas-
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food, beds and grooming sets the population spends most on simo Parise, who accomplished ... natural healthy!
have seen an increased spend felines, followed by Birmingham the transaction together with a
of 31 per cent over the last 12 (57 per cent) and Liverpool (53 pool of shareholders, according
months. The data shows that per cent). to a report from the Italian sector to open up the foreign market,
products such as dog beds in- In Bristol, fish are the most news service Pet B2B. especially in the Far East,” the
creased in value by 25 per cent popular pets, kept by 52 per cent Massimo Parise has taken entrepreneur is quoted as say-
over the last year from the start of the city’s inhabitants, while the charge of Pet 360 as sole direc- ing on Pet B2B. He added that
of 2020. citizens of Southampton (45 per tor. “We will soon move our of- he intended to continue the co-
Manchester and Leeds are cent) consider rodents to be the fices to the province of Vicenza operation between Pet 360 and
the places where the most coolest pets. with the aim of expanding the United Petfood.

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