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The rise of petfood retailing
It just keeps getting better for the petfood industry. In emerging markets, the combination of income growth, increasing urbanization and better marketing is creating favorable conditions for petfood sales.
The five leading international retailers are Wal-Mart, Carrefour, Tesco, Metro Group and A.S. Watson Group. They are already present in many developing markets, and local retailers will have to work hard to compete.
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Leaders of the organic pack
In 1985, Shelley Gunton and her husband Brian Connolly moved to Hong Kong . Due to fear of rabies, Hong Kong authorities required that Joey, the couple's much-loved Labrador mix, be held in quarantine for six months. In quarantine, Joey did not do well on the standard Hong Kong pet diet ...
In June 2003, Castor & Pollux introduced the first-ever 70% organic petfood, Organix, which quickly accounted for 50% of the company's sales.
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