April
New airline Bark bets big on $9278 flights for dogs
Pets are often flown to the wrong destinations or mishandled by airport staff. This private jet service, including “dog Champagne”, aims to solve that.
- Lebawit Lily Girma
March
Danish pet food giant laps up local producer Staughton Group
Sources said Ridley, a major producer of animal feed with a market capitalisation of some $700 million, was the underbidder for Staughton.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
December 2023
ACCC gives nod to Woolworths pets deal with asset sales in tow
The purchase price for the supermarket giant’s 55 per cent stake in the pet company is now expected to be $438 million, reduced from $586 million.
- Carrie LaFrenz
Competition regulator drags its paws on Woolworths’ PETstock buy
Next week will mark the 12-month anniversary of Street Talk’s report that the supermarket giant was preparing to buy the pet foods and accessories group.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Having a dog cuts your dementia risk by 40pc, scientists claim
Researchers in Japan say their study is the first time that science has established a clear link between owning a dog and the onset of dementia.
- Julian Ryall
November 2023
Tech wreck pessimism no match for AI and Australia’s pet obsession
Mad Paws is struggling to win over ASX investors despite robust growth, while Aussie firms making autonomous vehicles and AI road cameras are thriving.
- Paul Smith
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Inside the $4b Greencross bellyflop – and what it means for deals
Someone has cooked the golden goose, and fingers are pointing at underwriters, investors, private equity and advisers, after last week’s spectacular blow up.
- Anthony Macdonald
October 2023
Woolworths target PETstock to divest stores, vets after ACCC red flag
After a prolonged investigation, the competition regulator found several historical transactions by the pet retailer may have breached competition laws.
- Carrie LaFrenz
Who let the dogs on? The only ship that welcomes pets
Hundreds of pampered four-legged fur babies cruise the trans-Atlantic route between New York and Southampton each year.
- Fiona Carruthers
July 2023
Pet Circle keeps billion-dollar valuation in raising from one investor
The online pet supplies business’ latest funding round is smaller and without high-profile backers including AirTree Ventures and TDM Growth Partners.
- Paul Smith
June 2023
- Exclusive
- Retail
The not-so-secret life of pets
By anyone’s measure, pet care in Australia remains big business, but can the incredible growth last?
- Carrie LaFrenz
May 2023
Pemba Capital Partners books Vets Central for a check-up, RFP out
Turns out TPG Capital’s Greencross Vets is not the only pets-and-vets business in the dealmaking pipeline.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
How hotels are rolling out the red carpet for pets
Although many inns have long welcomed pets, today all kinds of lodgings are courting them with new packages and amenities.
- Stephanie Rosenbloom
- Exclusive
- ACCC
Woolworths pet acquisition stirs old competition issues
Woolworths may have to ditch some retail stores as part of its latest purchase, Petspiration Group, to get the deal over the line with the ACCC.
- Carrie LaFrenz
April 2023
Who let the dogs in (Canva and Amazon, for two)
It’s a game-changing perk for young workers in some of our newer corporations.
- Maida Pineda
March 2023
Are India’s stray dog days finally over?
Gruesome attacks on children, and the death of 20,000 people a year from rabies means a day of reckoning beckons for the country’s 62 million street dogs.
- Joe Wallen
February 2023
Bunnings launches biggest product expansion in decades with pet care
The hardware chain has expanded further into pet care, adding nearly 1000 new products as it seeks a larger slice of the $10 billion market.
- Carrie LaFrenz
Pets are the next frontier for non-animal proteins
Pet foods are worth $151 billion a year. No wonder start-ups are seeing an opportunity – starting at the premium end of the market.
- Coco Liu
Sorry, dogs: the lobby is off-limits
New York is at the tail end of the dog-restriction trend and is now moving into rolling out the red carpet for Rover.
- Sarah Maslin Nir
Pet sitting, food, health biz Mad Paws chases fresh funds
Hawkesbury Partners and PAC Partners are in the market with a $4 million equity raising for pet services group Mad Paws Holdings on Wednesday.
- Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood
