Franchise Journal

JUNE 2, 2025

What began as a relatively modest retail-based sector in the 1960s has evolved into a multi-billion-dollar industry encompassing grooming, boarding, training, pet health, food delivery, and even pet services such as memorials and cremation. 1990s–2000s: Diversification of Pet Services By the 1990s, pet ownership in the U.S.

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Franchise Journal

AUGUST 1, 2024

What began as a relatively modest retail-based sector in the 1960s has evolved into a multi-billion-dollar industry encompassing grooming, boarding, training, pet health, food delivery, and even pet services such as memorials and cremation. However, the industry also began to face scrutiny. Americans spent over $123.6

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Franchise Journal

JUNE 1, 2023

The largest category of spending is pet food, which accounted for $42 billion in 2020. billion), and pet services, such as grooming and boarding ($9.7 One of the reasons for the significant growth in the pet industry is the increasing number of households with pets. households own a pet, which equates to around 84.9

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