The top 25 pet retailers in North America

The top 25 pet retailers in North America

The 2019 edition of Pet Business’ Top 25 Retailers list reveals that the pet specialty channel’s premier chains continue to expand at an incredible pace.

With carefully curated product selections and a strong focus on service, these businesses continue to find themselves well positioned for growth, even in the face of mounting competition from mass, grocery and especially online retailers. And grow, they have. The chains that comprise the latest edition of Pet Business’ Top 25 Retailers list added a combined 137 stores over the past 12 months.

But that is nothing new for North America’s premier pet specialty chains, which have been growing steadily for more than a decade. In fact, the number of stores represented in the Top 25 Retailers list has grown an incredible 81 percent since 2009, going from 3,464 to 6,286 stores.

Even more impressive is that this growth has continued even as a number of chains—like Complete Petmart (32 stores in 2009), Jack’s Aquarium & Pets (27 stores in 2009) and Superpetz (25 stores in 2009)—have fallen by the wayside over the years. That’s because they’ve been replaced by rising stars that were not on the list 10 years ago, such as Woof Gang Bakery (No. 9 with 116 stores), Bentley’s Pet Stuff (No. 10 with 93 stores) and Hollywood Feed (No. 11 with 91 stores), to name just a few.

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