Record-breaking attendance at Global Pet Expo 2024

The 20th Global Pet Expo, held in Orlando, Florida, on March 20-22, was the biggest edition yet of the pet industry’s premier event, with nearly 20,000 attendees from over 85 countries and over 1,100 companies booking 343,500 net sq ft of exhibition space, the organizers said in a press release. The event is hosted annually by the American Pet Products Association and the Pet Industry Distributors Association at the Orange County Convention Center. Global Pet...

Americans spent over Rs12 lakh crore on pets in 2023

While it is no secret that the pet care industry is a lucrative one and growing, the American Pet Products Association’s latest annual pet industry expenditures data have reaffirmed this. In its Strategic Insights Report for 2024, the association announced that America’s pet industry raked in a whopping $147 billion, or 12.2 lakh crore in Indian rupee terms, last year. It has predicted that the numbers will continue to rise until at least 2030, when...