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The UK market leader

Pets at Home looks back on a change in personnel and
positive sales developments. Here is a summary.

The UK pet retail chain Pets at The captain disembarks to the investors and to ensure a
Home increased its total group At the beginning of Novem- smooth transition to his succes-
sales by 5.8 per cent year-on- ber last year, Pets at Home sor. The search for a suitable
year to GBP 319.4 mio in the announced that CEO Peter successor among internal and
last 12 weeks of last year. On a Pritchard would step down from external candidates has now
like-for-like basis, group sales in- his role as chief executive officer commenced.
creased by 8.7 per cent, and by and director of the company next
as much as 28.1 per cent on a summer. He has been with Pets New store in Brighton
two-year basis. In retail, Pets at at Home for eleven years. “This Two new pet centres (Brighton
Home grew by 9.8 per cent. follows the successful turna- and Guildford) were added in the
The company grew particu- round of the company in which last 12 weeks of the year, bring-
larly strongly in the omnichan- he developed and implemented ing the total number of sites to
nel sphere, by 16.7 per cent or the group’s strategy in the pet 455. In Brighton, the company
99.3 per cent on a two-year care sphere to achieve the goal aims to trial a range of sustain-
basis. The share of total retail of becoming the best pet care ability initiatives, including strat-
sales thus amounted to 15.9 company in the world,” states egies to increase energy effi-
per cent and increased by one Pets at Home in addition. Pe- ciency, reduce waste and save
per cent compared to the same ter Pritchard will remain in post water. A grooming salon is also
period last year. Two years ago, as CEO until the end of May to incorporated into the store. Next
the share was 10.3 per cent in oversee the presentation of the spring, a Vets4Pets surgery will
the same period of the last 12 group’s interim results for 2022 open in the pet care centre. n
weeks of the year. LFL sales
growth for the company’s Vet
Group was reported by Pets at
Home at 4 per cent, with a two-
year increase of 23.3 per cent.
New client registrations at First
Opinion veterinary practices av-
eraged about 9 200 per week in
the year to date, compared with
around 9 000 in the same period
last year.
“We now expect the group’s
full year adjusted pre-tax profit
to be at least GBP 140 mio in
2022,” Pets at Home highlighted
in its report.
Peter Pritchard has spent eleven
years at UK store chain Pets at
Home.

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