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Pet Companies and Organizations Help California Wildfire Victims
As wildfires raged across Southern California last October, pet-related businesses and animal welfare organizations throughout the United States rallied to provide shelter and supplies for as many as 15,000 pets displaced from their homes... 
PET AGE QUICKPOLL:
PET RETAILERS GET A JUMP ON HOLIDAYS
Expecting consumers to hit stores to find holiday gifts—and holiday bargains—earlier than ever, seven out of 10 pet retailers started promoting holiday shopping before Thanksgiving, according to a one-question poll posted on the PET AGE Web site from Nov. 14 to Nov. 21, 2007. A total of 279 PET AGE subscribers participated in the poll... HSUS Investigation Reveals Lack of Licenses Among Virginia Puppy Dealers
Ninety-eight percent of the more than 900 commercial puppy dealers in Virginia operate without U.S. Department of Agriculture licenses, according to an undercover investigation by The Humane Society of the United States (Washington)... Pet Professionals Launch Campaign to Give Cats a New “Brand Identity”
Even though felines are the nation’s most popular pets, they are less likely than dogs to receive basic veterinary care or to be treated as family members. But that could soon change, thanks to a groundbreaking national effort to improve society’s image of cats... USDA Could Get Authority to Issue Mandatory Food Recalls
A strategy based on risk-based prevention would replace border inspections to ensure the safety of products entering the United States under a proposal offered in November by an interagency working group formed in the wake of pet food, toothpaste and toy recalls... USDA Cannot Regulate Microchips
Two years after Congress directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop regulations requiring that microchip scanners be capable of reading all types of pet microchips, the agency has determined that it does not have the power to mandate standardization of pet microchips or the scanners that read them... Breeders Educational Conference Draws Record Crowd
More than 2,500 professional pet breeders, industry leaders and pet supplies vendors attended the Eighth Annual Breeders Educational Conference held Sept. 28-29 in Joplin, Mo., by The Hunte Corp. (Goodman, Mo.). Attendance surpassed the 2006 record of 2,200... Shifting Demographics and Other Trends Will Change Retailing by 2015
The retail industry will become more segmented and customer-driven by 2015 thanks to shifting demographics, household downsizing and new marketing channels, according to a new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Retail & Consumer Industry Practice and TNS Retail Forward... Market for Private-Label Products Is Poised to Boom
The successful strategies of several large, high-performance retailers could trigger a seismic shift in the private label marketplace, giving it an unprecedented 26 percent of dollar share and $55 billion in annual sales from national brands, according to a report from McKinsey & Co., a privately owned management consultant firm... Retailers Move Focus From Malls to Main Street
Although shopping centers continue to house the majority of retail stores in the United States, retailers are slowly moving back to Main Street to diversify their storefronts, according a study by the National Retail Federation (Washington)...
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