Why Attend
Increasing pet ownership combined with an upsurge in purchasing power are just some of the drivers resulting in continued growth in the €39.5 European Pet space.
With the humanisation trend and changing consumer behaviours forcing some of the industries most seasoned pet brands to diversify their existing portfolio, partnering with an emerging disruptor has never been so crucial. In the last year, Pets at Home bought a stake in dog-walking service Tailster whilst Nestle Purina acquired a majority stake in direct-to-consumer dog nutrition business Tails.com illustrating a growing appetite for innovation from the industries major players.
The objectives of the Petcare Innovation Summit are to connect emerging pet brands with seasoned strategic players and financial buyers. Our focus is on categories including pet food, veterinary health & nutrition, services, technology and accessories. This is the go-to meeting for those looking to meet prospective partners to help accelerate their businesses to the next level, as well as players seeking to build their investment or acquisition pipelines.
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Who Will Be There
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Emerging & Mid-sized Brands
Expect exciting and innovative brands from accross all pet categories:
- Food
- Treats
- Supplements
- Veterinary
- Accessories
- Hard Products
- Insurance
- Retail
- Services
- Technology
- Everything else!
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Multinationals & Retailers30%
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Investors & Financial Buyers20%
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Industry Supporting Companies10%
Best In Show
12 pet brands, hand-picked by the prestigious Selection Committee, introduce themselves and their products/services on the main stage, in a quick-fire round of presentations.
Submissions will be accepted from both Mass and Prestige brands in Food, Treats, Supplements, Accessories and Hard Products, Insurance, Retail, Services and Technology. They should be early to mid-stage brands that are actively seeking financial investment, acquisition, distribution, and/or marketing.
The more detailed the application form, the more information the selection committee can use to make their decision. However, if you do not wish to fill in a question, please feel free to leave it blank.
WINNERS ANNOUNCED - click here to find out who they are!2020 Selection Committee
Jürgen Degrande
Marketing & sales academic background. Moved to New York in 2010 and build a career as sales director retail.
Returned to Belgium to pursue a financial MBA and co-founded Edgard & Cooper in 2015. Responsible for commercial department at Edgard & Cooper.
Annabel Feather
Antoine Regis
Belinda Gurung
Claire Gavin
Nigel Baker
Nigel Baker is the CEO of the Pet Industry Federation - the UK’s leading pet trade association supporting over 1800 business members from manufacturers to retailers to pet services
Pippa Lamb
Pippa is an invesor at Sweet Capital and splits her time between the London and LA offices. Prior to Sweet Capital, Pippa worked in Consumer Private Equity at LVMH-backed L Catterton, where she was part of the investment team that worked on a $175m co-invest with JD.com into Secoo, China's largest luxury e-commerce player. Prior to this, Pippa spent five years at J.P. Morgan in London and Hong Kong, where she was part of the global equity strategy team, analysing companies for investment primarily in the technology and consumer space. Before J.P. Morgan, Pippa worked for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Shanghai and Beijing, developing UK/China investment and policy initiatives. Pippa holds an BA in Chinese from Oxford University and an MBA (Fulbright Scholar) from Harvard Business School. Pippa was promoted to Partner in July 2019.
SPEAKERS
Antoine Regis
Bruce Casalis
David Lonsdale
Peter Pitchard
Peter is an experienced retailer with over 30 years’ experience having worked for M&S, Sainsbury’s, Iceland, ASDA and Wilkinson Hardware Stores.
Peter is now Group CEO of Pets at Home Group PLC appointed in 2018. He has been with the retailer since 2011 initially as Commercial Director then COO & more recently Retail CEO.
Peter is a life-long pet parent and today is “dad” to Oscar and Leo two very cute but very mischievous cats.
Peter has refocused the strategy of the business to bring all its assets together and become “The Best Pet Care Business in the World” enabling pet parents to do their best for their beloved pet. Pets at Home wants to make being a pet parent, easy, convenient but above all rewarding.
The business has amazing assets - V.I.P. – The Very Important Pets Club, the award winning pet loyalty scheme launched in 2012 now with over 4.5 million members with 1 in 3 dogs and 1 in 4 cats, in the UK registered on the scheme. A truly seamless web and store operations allowing pet shoppers to shop with Pets at Home in any way they wish with 65% of all orders being chosen to be collected in store. The business recognizes the importance of educating and helping pet owners, running highly successful children pet workshops, puppy socialization classes, puppy training, dog agility and even dog birthday parties.
Pets at Home also runs the UK’s largest joint venture veterinary business under “Vets4Pets” as well as owning 4 specialist hospitals performing life changing surgery and treatments for pets.
In July 2019 Pets at Home extended on its services capability by becoming the lead investor in Tailster.com the UK’s leading digital dog walking and pet boarding business.
‘Today the business has 453 Pet Superstores, 440 Vet Practices, 316 Groom Room Salons and 4 Specialist Hospitals. Pets at Home is the UK’s leading Pet Care Business, with sales in excess of £950m’
Dylan Watkins
Jamie Brennan
John Howie
Dr John Howie is CEO & Co-founder of Lintbells, makers of the UK’s number 1 joint supplement, YuMOVE. On a mission to give pets an active life for life, Lintbells has a large share of the UK market and is expanding into the US, European and Asian markets.
Matt Diffey
Matt Diffey is Head of Group Strategy & Transformation at Pet at Home. He works closely with the Pets at Home management team to develop and implement the Group’s strategy – which is centred on the vision ‘to be the best pet care business in the world.’ Matt also plays a leadership role in driving the Group’s M&A agenda, including the Group’s recent investment in Tailster, the UK’s leading dog walking and pet boarding service, and now represents Pets at Home on Tailster’s Board.
Prior to joining Pets at Home in 2016, Matt was a Case Team Leader at Bain & Company in London, where he worked primarily with consumer-oriented businesses to develop solutions to their most important strategic and organisational issues. He also spent a year in Bain’s Private Equity Group, supporting several of the world’s leading private equity funds on commercial due diligence.
He started his career in the social impact sector and is passionate about the role large businesses, such as Pets at Home, can play in being a force for good in broader society.
Matt grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, USA, and received a BA in Philosophy from Tufts University and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
Klaus Wagner
Matthieu Wincker
Michael Hurnaus
Peter Dunkley
Richard Setterwall
Sarah Kaye
Jürgen Degrande
Marketing & sales academic background. Moved to New York in 2010 and build a career as sales director retail.
Returned to Belgium to pursue a financial MBA and co-founded Edgard & Cooper in 2015. Responsible for commercial department at Edgard & Cooper.
Tania Moser
Tania is the CEO of Pets Deli, the leading direct-to-consumer pet food brand in Germany. Pets Deli’s mission is to make healthy feeding easy for everyone. It boasts a full range of premium dog and cat foods such as raw meals, dry and wet food and a complete assortment of snacks. In addition it carries products for pets with sensitive stomachs and recently introduced a sustainable product line that uses alternative proteins as well as a complete healthcare line.
Tania took over Pets Deli in 2017 after it had to file for bankruptcy and rebuilt it from scratch. Today it is one of the fastest growing online pet food companies in Europe known for its speed of operation, online marketing strength and successful subscription services. Pets Deli currently launches on average one new product per week and will continue to grow both on- and offline in the upcoming year.
She holds a masters degree in International Management previously worked for the Boston Consulting Group.
Oliver Boucher
Oliver Boucher has a successful track record creating and managing start-ups and executing strategic transactions at Board level on both the buy-side and sell-side of the life science business-to-business (B2B) market within the pharmaceutical and diagnostics industries. He also has significant experience in fund-raising, both dilutive and non-dilutive. He has held senior commercial and business roles in a succession of biotech companies after having gained executive level experience for seven years as a director of business development at GSK. Before joining industry, Oliver Boucher was a patent attorney in London, Montreal and Paris. He received an MA in genetics and molecular biology from Cambridge University and earned an MBA from INSEAD Business School. Mr Boucher joined Zoetis in 2017.
Garyth Stone
Travis Street
Travis Street has been developing proprietary software in the commercial sector since 2011. With experience leading teams in marketing, software development, design, artificial intelligence and human healthcare sectors, he’s spent four years teaching Master’s level business modelling as Teaching Fellow in Entrepreneurship at Surrey University Business School. Shifting his focus to animal health, he is currently acting Head of the Veterinary Health Innovation Engine (vHive) at Surrey University Veterinary School with partner organisation Zoetis - the world’s largest animal health pharmaceutical company, where he is leading on the development of several platforms in animal health for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation cofounded initiatives in Sub Saharan Africa.
Rikke Rosenlund
Pablo Pazos
Entrepreneur and software craftsman.
Founder of Barkibu, a platform to connect veterinaries and pet lovers.
Founder of ReallyLateBooking, a new way of travel, same-day hotel booking from your mobile.
Founder of IIPIR, a startup specialized in mobile applications development.
James McElroy
Charlotte Halkett
Bought By Many is a Pet Insurance innovator, showing pet parents it is possible to love your insurer.
By speaking to thousands of pet owners and looking at millions of online searches it identified the insurance products pet owners wanted but could not find, and then launched those in 2017. Bought By Many now covers more than 150,000 pets, was voted the UK’s Most Trusted Pet Insurance Provider at the 2019 Moneywise customer service awards and launched into its first international market, Sweden, in 2019.
Charlotte has been making the insurtech revolution a reality in the insurance industry for more than a decade. She is a qualified actuary and a recognised insurtech top influencer.
Nick Thompson
Rowan Sanderson
Having nurtured a lifelong passion for better understanding nutrition and its impact on both health & longevity, it was only when his own health was seriously compromised that Rowan completely immersed his energies into the field of Functional Nutrition, Medicine & Biohacking to heal himself. He is now proud to bring this perspective as Chief Nutritional Officer at Bella & Duke , to the pet wellness world and is collaborating with several leading research scientists to challenge dogma and develop innovative solutions to avoidable unwanted symptoms. His dream is to eradicate these symptoms and move the wellness world focus on to optimal rather than minimal, and longevity rather than simply avoiding symptoms.
MAKE THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS
Make the most valuable connections possible with your bespoke meeting scheduler.
With free access to the MEETING MOJO platform, you can create a bespoke meeting schedule for the summit, ensuring you connect with the industry stakeholders that are most important in building your business.
MEETING MOJO gives you access to the entire attendee list, allowing you to message and invite people to connect during the formal meeting sessions run throughout the day. You will also have additional time during our informal networking sessions.
24 private meetings are available for each guest.
Associate Event Partner
Zoetis
Website: www.zoetis.com
Zoetis is the leading animal health company, dedicated to supporting its customers and their businesses. Building on more than 65 years of experience in animal health, Zoetis discovers, develops, manufactures and commercializes medicines, vaccines and diagnostic products, which are complemented by biodevices, genetic tests and precision livestock farming. Zoetis serves veterinarians, livestock producers and people who raise and care for farm and companion animals with sales of its products in more than 100 countries. In 2019, the company generated annual revenue of $6.3 billion with approximately 10,600 employees.
For more information, visit www.zoetis.com.
Senior Event Partner
Houlihan Lokey
Website: https://hl.com/
Houlihan Lokey (NYSE:HLI) is a global investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, and valuation. The firm serves corporations, institutions, and governments worldwide with offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia‑Pacific region. Independent advice and intellectual rigor are hallmarks of the firm’s commitment to client success across its advisory services. Houlihan Lokey is the No. 1 M&A advisor for the past six consecutive years in the U.S., the No. 1 global restructuring advisor for the past seven consecutive years, and the No. 1 global M&A fairness opinion advisor over the past 20 years, all based on number of transactions and according to data provided by Refinitiv.
Event Partner
Edgard & Cooper
Website: https://uk.edgardcooper.com/
Pet parents are nowadays looking for brands that not only offer nutritious foods but have a positive impact on the planet, and Edgard & Cooper do this more than ever by living and breathing its values. In this introduction to the innovation showcase , we will hear from an executive at Edgard & Cooper as they give us insight on the brands journey to success without compromising the brands values to ensure they offer nutritious and fresh product that make pets and the planet feel good.
Media Partners
PetQuip
Website: http://www.petquip.com
PetQuip is an international trade association for UK suppliers of pet care goods and services to retailers & distributors.
PetQuip’s mission is to:
- Help British pet care suppliers to export
- Enable buyer and seller engagement
- Promote British pet product exports
- Lobby government to provide the sector with export funding & support
- Facilitate the development of business in the pet equipment sector
- Elevate and reward excellence via the annual PetQuip Awards
The association helps develop new sales opportunities for its members by providing a vast range of advice, information and direct contact with international buyers of pet products.
PetQuip hosts groups of UK companies at key fairs worldwide, offering turnkey exhibiting packages, Meet the Buyer events, export advice and signposting, market updates and report, plus sales leads, export advice and a technical export helpline.
PetQuip helps retailers and distributors to source from the UK market, drawing on its heritage of pet ownership and huge variety of suppliers, from brand names to entrepreneurial start-ups.
Euromonitor International
Website: www.euromonitor.com
Euromonitor International is a global market research company providing strategic market intelligence on industries, companies, economies and consumers around the world. Comprehensive international coverage and insights across consumer goods, business-to-business and service industries make our research an essential resource for businesses of all sizes
Pet Business World
Website: www.petbusinessworld.co.uk
Pet Business World is the UK’s leading news magazine and website for the pet and aquatics industry. We distribute 7,711 copies (November 2018) to qualifying pet trade professionals – the biggest circulation in the specialist trade by a considerable margin. The independently-owned magazine was established in 1951 and the website (www.petbusinessworld.co.uk) attracted more than 37 million hits in the 12 months to October 2018 – and rising!
PET Worldwide
Website: www.petworldwide.net
PET worldwide is the specialist magazine for the international pet retail industry. It offers expert information on the international pet trade and on suppliers and service-providers in the pet sector. The reporting spectrum ranges from news and personnel to detailed reports from both industry and commerce, and on to previews and reviews of the major trade fairs worldwide. On a regular basis the magazine publishes detailed country reports, which analyze both the retail scene and the relevant manufacturers of the country concerned. Every issue uses market surveys and reports on new products to present a topic of current significance.
Pet Industry Federation
Website: http://www.petcare.org.uk/
The Pet Industry Federation combines five specialist trade associations under one umbrella group. Federation members are pet industry specialists and include groomers, pet boarders, pet retailers and manufacturers. We are the only organisation to represent all the different sectors of the pet industry: together our voice is stronger.
Our membership comprises mostly small, medium-sized enterprises ranging from pet retailers, dog groomers, kennels & catteries, manufacturers, wholesalers and professional services, which included colleges, publishers, dog walkers, pet sitters.
The Federation and its Associations support members through a great range of services. More information on these is availale in our Membership section.
The Pet Industry Federation provides a quality assurance of businesses in the pet care sector: all members agree to adhere to our charters, representing best practice for the different sectors of the pet trade on joining the relevant association.
PARTNER WITH US
Based on your objectives, we can create bespoke packages designed specifically for you. Opportunities predominantly lie in 3 main categories: Thought Leadership, Branding, and Networking.
Interested in a media partnership?
We'd love to hear from you and how we can support one another to connect with the industry. Contact [email protected]
The Agenda
We're excited to share that the Pets & Money Summit has evolved to the Petcare Innovation Summit this year. Please download the agenda to have a look at the full programme for this year.
What you can expect at the 2020 Petcare Innovation Summit in London:
- 100+ leaders from pet brands, supporting companies, strategic buyers and financial buyers
- Opportunities to connect with some of the pet industry's most influential executives
- A chance to particpate in the Best In Show pet brand spotlight
See what happened at Pets & Money London 2019
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Venue
Novotel London West, 1 Shortlands, London W68DR
We are pleased to offer a special rate to our delegates:
Rate:£145.00 -bed and breakfast for single occupancy
Novotel London West: Telephone number: 00 44 (0)20 87411 555 - option 2
Reservation in house opened from Monday to Friday 08.00am to 05.30pm (London time) or alternatively Email address: [email protected]
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