Page 24 - PET worldwide issue 02/2022

International Pet Conference

PET worldwide seeks

the Best Newcomer

Who will be the Best Newcomer of 2022? At the International Pet
Conference in Bologna on 11 and 12 October, PET worldwide

will offer five start-ups the opportunity to introduce themselves
and their products to a large audience. The award will go to
the stand-out company among these.

mission to promote new compa- ucts at the conference in a live
nies with innovative business pitch lasting roughly five minutes
ideas. Many young companies and including a film. The winner,
are trying to revolutionise the to be decided in an online ballot
market and boost the attractive- of PET worldwide readers and by
ness of the pet supplies sector delegates to the International Pet
with their ideas. That’s why the Conference, will then be presented
magazine, which founded the with the PET worldwide Best New-
International Pet Conference, comer Award on the first day of
will give its own award - the the conference. Readers’ votes
PET worldwide Best Newcomer and those of the congress dele-
Award – for new companies in gates will account respectively for
The upturn in the pet supplies the pet sector for the first time at 50 per cent of the overall ballot.
sector experienced during the this year’s conference in Bologna n
pandemic encouraged many on 11 and 12 October. The award
young entrepreneurs to invest has been given twice in Germany
in products for dogs, cats and already, at the Pet Conference in
other pets. In the age of the In- 2019 and the digital Pet Confer- How it works
ternet and social media, getting ence in 2021. Now an interna-
Are you a newcomer to the pet
a company up and running and tional version of the founder’s supplies sector and would like
making it known to the public is award is to be premiered. to be considered for the PET
child’s play. Nevertheless, it is worldwide Best Newcomer
still a long and rocky road from Live pitches Award? Then apply no later
launching a product to seeing it A separate part of the programme
than 10 June at www.daehne.
achieve market success. Many of talks at the International Pet
com/best- newcomer-award.
a good idea that our pet sector Conference will include presen- Speciality retailers who have
could carry forward has failed to tations from five newcomers. The a successful working relation-
progress because too few peo- selection of companies nominated ship with a newcomer com-
ple in the market heard of it, or for Bologna will be made by the pany and wish to recommend
because no suitable distribution editorial team of the PET world-
it for the award can also ap-
partners were found. wide trade magazine. Each of ply using the online form on
The PET worldwide trade mag- the five companies nominated the website.
azine regards it as an important will introduce itself and its prod-

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