PET worldwide seeks the Newcomer of the Year

The upturn in the pet supplies sector experienced during and after the pandemic encouraged many young entrepreneurs to invest in products for dogs, cats and other pets. In the age of the Internet and social media, getting a company up and running and making it known to the public isn’t hard. Nevertheless, it is still a long and rocky road from launching a product to seeing it achieve market success. Many a good idea that our pet sector could carry forward has failed to progress because too few people in the market heard of it, or because no suitable distribution partners were found.

The PET worldwide trade magazine regards it as an important mission to promote new companies with innovative business ideas. Many young companies are trying to revolutionise the market and boost the attractiveness of the pet supplies sector with their ideas. That’s why the magazine, which founded the International Pet Conference, will give an award – the PET worldwide Best Newcomer Award – for new companies in the pet sector.

A separate part of the programme of talks at the International Pet Conference will include presentations from five newcomers. The selection of companies nominated for Brussels will be made by the editorial team of the PET worldwide trade maga­zine. Each of the five companies nominated will introduce itself and its products at the conference in a live pitch lasting roughly five minutes and including a film. The winner, to be decided in an online ballot of PET worldwide readers and by delegates to the International Pet Conference, will then be presented with the PET worldwide Best Newcomer Award on the first day of the conference. Readers’ votes and those of the congress delegates will account respectively for 50 per cent of the overall ballot.