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April 11th, 2024
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This Week
💰 Business Roundup: Barkbox enters luxury aviation, Marleybones raises a mil, P&G offloads assets to Mars, and a ton more…
🌎 In The News: Get paid to cuddle cats, Taiwan’s most famous dog, a new study about dogs and sleep quality, and much more…
🥓 Pet Food: New launches and more…
💼 Job Board: Please reach out if you would like us to share your job posting
Quick Hits:
Next-level luxury - Barkbox is entering the aviation space by launching a private dog-friendly air carrier called Bark Air. Currently, the price tag stands at $6,000 for a one-way flight from NYC to LA.
Kong vs Godzilla - Proctor & Gamble is set to offload its pet food operation assets in North and Latin America to Mars in a $2.9 billion agreement.
Maybe baby - Nestlé is in talks to acquire a majority stake in Canada’s Champion Petfoods for more than US$2 billion.
The deal in Finnished - Finnish pet food brand Alvar Pet just acquired Verkkokauppa Kivuton (say that 5 times fast) to become the Nordics’ largest online store for pet health.
Top of the (pet) food chain - Katie Spies, the CEO of Maev was recently named on Inc. Magazine’s 2024 Female Founders 250 List.
Sun is Shining - Marleybones just closed €1M in seed funding.
Time to grow - Nulo just hired Roger Lund to help drive growth in global markets.
Trust your instincts - PetInstincts is one of eight global start-up firms to receive funding through Purina’s business accelerator scheme.
Kit and Caboodle - Caboodle reached their 6-week target of raising £150,000.
Nestle - The multinational corporation is opening a pet food factory in northern Italy, for a whopping $500M which will (hopefully) be completed by 2027.
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Let sleeping dogs lie (in bed) - A survey-based study found that people who sleep in the same room as their dogs show worse sleep quality.
He didn’t make the squad but… - This sweet labrador failed to make it as a police dog but won hearts this week helping in Taiwan’s earthquake.
Cali to MI - A Californian family's missing dog was found in… Michigan.
10k to cuddle cats - If you like cuddling cats while simultaneously making money this might be the gig youre looking for.
Psychic bird facilitated its release - A fortune-teller whose parrot predicted a win for a politician in India was arrested.
Make way for the royal cats - 19 feral cats have free rein of Mexico’s National Palace, with access to every part of it.
Who let the dogs out (literally)? - A shopping center in China had 100 unexpected visitors recently.
Slurp, slurp - This dog went viral for the weirdest thing.
New Milk - Big opportunities in the pet milk replacer market.
Best rice ever - A rice marketing co-op based in California, is offering a new solution for pet food manufacturers.
No smores? - Campfire Treats announces 15 new certified humane dog treats.
Cave Pets - The omnichannel pet nutrition brand launched the first regenerative organic certified® supplements.
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