2026 Retailer Excellence Awards! Finalists Revealed, Vote Now for No. 1

The inaugural Retailer Excellence Awards (REA), presented by Pet Age, celebrates the achievements and resilience of the pet industry’s interconnected community. Though the awards program is primarily focused on pet stores – the REA recognizes excellence in six specific award categories – it also honors the hard-working sales reps, distributors and vendors.

Pet Age has tabulated the nominations and narrowed the pool down to five finalists who excel across nine niche categories.

Scroll down to view the best of the best. Finalists are listed below in alphabetical order:

Single Store:

• Busch Pet Products (Cape Girardeau, MO)
• Hero’s Pets (Littleton, CO)
• Purrs McBarkin’ (Hartsville, SC)
• Urban Tails Pet Supply (Minneapolis, MN)
• Whiskers Holistic Petcare (New York, NY)

Multiple Locations:

• DOGPerfect
• Dogs & Cats Rule
• Hollywood Feed
• Two Bostons
• Unleashed LLC

Store Design/Visual Merchandising:

• Bag of Bones Barkery (Hamilton Township, NJ)
• Nieci’s Green Bites Pet Boutique (Augusta, GA)
• Odyssey Pets (Dallas, TX)
• The Good Dog Shoppe (Kennesaw, GA)
• The Shop Dog (Sioux Falls, SD),

Social Media Outreach/Online Initiative:

• Animal Connection LLC (Charlottesville, VA)
• Fetch RI (Richmond, RI)
• Paws (Redlands, CA)
• Petland Iowa City (Iowa City, IA)
• Two Bostons (Naperville, IL)

Store Events:

• All Pets Considered (Greensboro, NC)
• Pet People of Los Gatos (Los Gatos, CA)
• Wag Heaven Pet Supplies (Georgetown, TX)
• West Lebanon Feed & Supply (West Lebanon, NH)
• Woofmeow (Derry, NH)

Socially Responsible:

• Hollywood Feed (Memphis, TN)
• J&R Aquatic Animal Rescue (Neenah, WI)
• Petland Iowa City (Iowa City, IA)
• Unleashed LLC (Raleigh, NC)
• West Lebanon Feed & Supply (West Lebanon, NH)

Favorite Sales Rep:

• Tiffany Brenner (Pet Solutions Group)
• Scott Deetsch (Performance Sales and Marketing)
• Ingrid Oswald (SquarePet)
• Rick Ribero (Muenster Pet)
• Steve Walling (Central Pet Supply)

Favorite Manufacturer:

• CDE Animal Cages
• EZwhelp
• Huxley & Kent
• Metropaws
• Tucker’s

Favorite Distributor:

• John A. Van Den Bosch
• King Wholesale
• Pet Palette Distribution
• Southeast Pet
• Zeigler’s Distributor

Vote for your favorites below!

Voting will run through June 1, and winners will be announced in the July issue of Pet Age.

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