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Arcaplanet opens seven new stores

With seven new stores in the Lom- tailer Arcaplanet has increased its
Rumford acquires Pet Valu stores bardy, Lazio, Liguria and Sardinia store portfolio to over 370. This
regions, the leading Italian pet re- was reported in the Italian retail
The US pet retailer Rumford Pet East Providence, North Kingstown, newsletter B2B.it.
Express is acquiring four former Smithfield and Warwick. The new outlets
Pet Valu locations in Barrington, In November, Pet Valu an- in Rome (3), Med-
Cumberland, Middletown and nounced plans to wind down its olago, Busto Garolfo,
Wakefield (Rhode Island, USA). operations “due to severe impact Sesto San Pietro and
Founded in 1936, Rumford is from Covid-19”. The company Avegno together
the largest pet speciality retailer in said it would shut down all of its have a retail area of
Rhode Island and Southern Mas- 358 stores and warehouses in around 2 400 m².
sachusetts, according to the press the Northeastern and Midwest- They are located pri-
release. The company has five es- ern US as well as its corporate Arcaplanet has increased its store portfolio to marily in town cen-
tablished locations in Attleboro, office in Wayne. over 370. tres and retail parks.

Chewy aims to open a new corporate office

The leading US online retailer of and merchandising roles. This is The company, which has more ment centre in Missouri at a cost
pet products, Chewy, plans to what different online newsletters than 18 000 employees overall, of over 143 mio dollars. The lo-
open a corporate office in the Se- are reporting. operates various fulfilment and cations would complement eight
attle region by the end of the year Dania Beach/Florida-based customer service locations. other warehouse locations scat-
and intends to hire several hun- Chewy also has corporate of- In July 2020, the company tered throughout the US.
dred staff for technology, product fices in Minneapolis and Boston. said it planned to open a fulfil-

Nimanja continues to expand

Bruneian multichannel pet sup- end of 2020, closing the year Nimanja also made a foray son Lim, Nimanja founder, told
plies retailer Nimanja opened with a total of 12 stores across into Sibu, a town of 162 000 peo- PET worldwide.
three new outlets towards the two countries. ple in the state of Sarawak, east This year, Nimanja’s store
The company, which started Malaysia, in the third quarter of expansion strategy will be rela-
in 2016 as an online store but 2020. Prior to opening in Sibu, tively muted. Anderson Lim said
has seen rapid expansion of its Nimanja’s presence in the neigh- that in Brunei, the company is
brick-and-mortar footprint in re- bouring country was concen- looking to open just three more
cent years, opened in two new trated in Miri, a city of 230 000 stores either this year or the next.
locations in the sultanate, in the people that borders Brunei. The The Nimanja executive also said
district of Tutong and in Mentiri in company currently has three that expansion in east Malaysia
the district of Brunei-Muara. The branches in Miri. has been hampered by the bor-
most recent openings, which “Sibu is performing excep- der closure.
are in addition to the two shops tionally well. It’s one of our top Nimanja is part of Brunei’s
Nimanja is adapting to the that started operating in Sungai three branches. We financed the PetLink Group, the country’s
challenges of the coronavirus Tilong and Tanjong Bunut in the shop through our Miri accounts, oldest and biggest pet supplies
pandemic. The Bruneian multi- early part of 2020, increase the and then sent workers back and outfit. The group has cornered
channel pet supplies retailer is
continuing to expand in Brunei and number of Nimanja outlets in forth between Miri and Sibu for 50 per cent of the Bruneian pet
Malaysia during 2021. Brunei to eight. training for two months,” Ander- market.

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