Pet Food Express
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 A Pet Food Express store in Oakland | |
| Company type | Private company |
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| Industry | Retail |
| Genre | Pet store |
| Founded | 1986 |
| Headquarters | 500, 85th Avenue Oakland, California |
| Products | Pet supplies |
| Owner | Michael Levy Mark Witriol |
Pet Food Express is a California chain of retail stores that offers pet food, with a focus on premium brands, holistic, and organic pet food, as well as other pet supplies, and self-service dog washing facilities.
Pet Food Express CEO and co-owner Michael Levy started a dog training business in 1976 and opened his first San Francisco location in 1980, selling some food and supplies. In 1986, he left dog training to focus on retail and had expanded to three locations by the time his business partner, Mark Witriol, came aboard in 1992. They have since expanded, and have 54 locations in Northern California, with 9 more in Southern California.[1]
Pet Food Express partners with more than 250 non-profit animal rescue and shelter organizations, and regularly donate more than $1 million a year to those organizations. The company set up cat adoption centers in its stores starting in 2011 and claims that approximately 1,000 cats have been adopted through its California stores since the program's inception.[2] Pet Food Express has a high standard of quality for its food and products.[3]
In June 2022 the company sold to Rainier Partners, a private equity firm, to help grow the business further. This move has been regarded as a terrible idea by many long-term employees, many citing corporate culture eroding and abusive business practices to arise. [4]
References
[edit]- ^ February 2023, Susan Dyer Reynolds. "Business owner hosing homeless woman highlights city's failures". Marina Times. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Harmanci, Reyhan. "San Francisco Teams with Pet Supply Stores on Cat Adoptions". The New York Times. Retrieved April 5, 2012.
- ^ "Pet Food Express opens 2nd Long Beach location in Belmont Shore • Long Beach Business Journal". Long Beach Business Journal. October 28, 2022. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
- ^ "Rainier Partners Invests in Pet Food Express, a Fast-Growing Omni-Channel Pet Retailer". Business Wire. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
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