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Pets at Home - Vet revenue growth +25%

September 2017

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  • Epic Code:
  • PETS
  • Price:
  • 176.5p
Pets at Home is the UK’s largest specialist retailer of pet food, pet products and pet-related services in the UK with 434 superstores, four times bigger than its nearest rival. In fact, Pets at Home has more stores than the biggest four chains combined.Established in 1991, the group did well from the beginning but last year it experienced a bit of a blip when sales of its merchandise (food and accessories) stalled as consumers became more price sensitive and because of a competitive onslaught from the discounters like B&M and Home Bargains and online pure plays such as Zooplus. This has seen the shares fall from a high of over 300p.But I don’t think Pets At Home is ready to become a retail dinosaur. First, pe ...

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