Supermarket chain Woolworths is set to acquire a 55 per cent stake in pet food and services company Petspiration Group, for a price of $586 million. Petspiration is the owner of retail brand PETstock, which has 276 outlets across Australia and New Zealand.
Practice Management: The fog of raw vet financials
For those of you unfamiliar with vet practice financials, you may be forgiven for thinking that if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. That they all follow a similar structure or template, and that the practice’s income and expenses will always be labelled somewhat consistently from practice to practice. […]
Practice management: driving without destination
When veterinarians decide to get into practice ownership, they spend many hours analysing possible practices to buy or sites to start up in. They fill spreadsheets with costings and projections, competition analysis, ideas and business plans before they act. When they are in practice, they spend countless hours agonising over […]
Practice Management: Don’t become a boiling frog in business ownership
There is an urban legend that if a frog is suddenly put into a pot of boiling water, it will jump out and save itself from impending death. But, if the frog is put into lukewarm water, with the temperature rising slowly, the frog will keep trying to adjust and […]
New approach to managing cat allergens
In a world first, Purina scientists have identified a proactive way to significantly reduce active levels of the major cat allergen, Fel d1, at its source in cats’ saliva. The breakthrough has been incorporated into a new range of cat food released in Australia, Purina Pro Plan LiveClear, shown to […]