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PetShop.co.uk has received extensive print media and broadcast media coverage over the years.
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From feeding pets to fueling growth, Petshop.co.uk partnered with Wayflyer for a dogged pursuit of expansion.Petshop.co.uk, founded by Adam and Lexi Taylor, started as a modest venture in London, delivering pet supplies from a studio apartment. Nurtured by a £5,000 Prince's Trust grant and then bootstrapping, the duo turned their love for pets into a £30 million business.
The co-founder of a Warwickshire online pet food business has explained how support when the company was first started helped to catapult it to sales of more than £25 million. Adam Taylor, of petshop.co.uk, was speaking at the second meeting of the University of Warwick Science Park's Ignite Alumni network at the Junction building in the Warwick Innovation District.
When Adam Taylor walked away from his job as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers in 2008, his vision for his future fell apart around him.This ambitious 26-year-old who had an ability with numbers yet had dyslexia, had imagined a life of learning and a career around money, investments, hedge funds – and then suddenly it was over. He was out. Done.
Offering both choice and convenience through its subscription-based delivery service and online store, PetShop.co.uk stocks over 10,000 products from major brands. Wanting to improve their warehouse performance, this growing business needed a strategy to tackle the inefficiencies that come with manual processes, and so they turned to NetSuite and RF-SMART.
Adam Taylor is the co-founder of e-commerce platform for pet food subscriptions petshop.co.uk, which is based in Masons Road, Stratford-upon-Avon. He is among the speakers at the Driving Innovation and Growth Summit on Friday at the University of Warwick Wellesbourne Campus Conference Centre.
PetShop.co.uk founder talks up the importance of tech to start-ups as NetSuite study reveals entrepreneurial ambition is on the up. Adam Taylor, who founded PetShop.co.uk in 2010, says the huge shift towards people wanting to be their own boss makes sense in the context of the rise of the entrepreneur and the influence of social media.
PetShop.co.uk is an online pet food retailer which sells a wide variety of branded products for many different pets ranging from dogs and cats to birds and other small animals, and offers a monthly pet food delivery subscription service.
Adam Taylor of Petshop.co.uk Tells Us About Its Branded Dog and Cat Food Subscription Services."There was no efficient way to acquire a dog and cat food, and nobody was offering a subscription service, which seemed bizarre to me due to the repetitive purchase pattern of dog and cat food" said Adam
PetShop.co.uk: Growth, Evolution and Reinvention- Adam Taylor, CEO, PetShop.co.uk, explains that as a 12-year-old, there was very little joy in dragging around pet food that weighed almost as much as he did.
"Business success stories: Pet Food Online- I realised that nobody was delivering pet food using an e-commerce model" Adam Taylor
Pet Food Delivery Pioneer Grows 50 Percent Year-On-Year with NetSuite. “People would rather sacrifice their own spending than their pet’s food. That says a lot about how recession-proof this sector really is,” says PetShop.co.uk CEO Adam Taylor.
Subscription-based pet supply store PetShop.co.uk has grown from a family-run business to be one of the largest in its sector thanks to investing in an all-encompassing tech system to keep pace with its growth.
The grant created eight jobs at PetShopBowl, safeguarded another nine and allowed this brilliant idea to fully take flight."Along with the grant we also got some really good advice which helped us put together an excellent business plan and enabled us to identify and deal with logistics like widening the aisles in our warehouse and purchasing a West Midlands-made fork-lift truck specifically designed for narrow aisles - simple but very important things which make the business that much more efficient." Said Adam
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ITV News interview.
"2013 Lloyds TSB Enterprise Awards shortlist announced. PetShopBowl.co.uk announced Midlands Best Enterprise Winner."
- The Telegraph, 24th Febuary 2013
BBC interview on buiness growth
"PetShopBowl is a nationwide home deliveries pet supplies company, saving people money & time.."
''Previous to setting up PetShopBowl Adam was made redundant and had reached ‘quite a down point’ in his life. He joined the Prince’s Trust business programme which allowed him to start his business. Now he has been recognised for his work by being awarded the ERDF Outstanding Business Growth award at the ERDF & ESF London awards 2012. Kate Pritchard, Volunteers and Secondments Executive at The Princes Trust, who nominated Adam for this award, says: ‘Adam has taken every opportunity to make use of the specialist support that The Prince’s Trust has offered. Adam has been able to keep to all administrative deadlines for the ERDF project and has been proactive in every aspect of his business to ensure continued growth in the future.''
- ESF Works, 7th January 2013
"PetShopBowl will be speaking at the first Annual Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership (CWLEP) Conference. The LEP is the brainchild of the Coalition Government, designed to promote business and job growth in their specified regions.''
- CW Local Enterprise Partnership, 10th October 2011
LEP - Volunteer Mentor Scheme
''Adam Taylor, who recently launched a business called PetShopBowl.co.uk with Alexandra Tamasan selling pet food via the web and delivering to customers’ homes, also spoke about the importance of a mentor for a fledgling business. He said: “The help we had from our mentor was invaluable. We had both been through adversity in the jobs market and decided to launch our own business.
Denys Shortt, chairman of the Coventry & Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership and managing director of DCS Europe, said: “This is exactly the kind of initiative that the Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership is supportive of.''
- Chamber of Commerce, 10th October 2011
''It's a world away from the cut and thrust of investment banking but this is where former banker Adam Taylor is working. He's one of the exhibitors at the London Pet Show - here to drum up business for his online pet food company. Adam set-up PetShopBowl.co.uk shortly after being made redundant from Lehman brothers in 2008. And although he didn't think so then, the timing couldn't have been better.''
- Reuters, 21st April 2011
''Over the last 10 months at Petshopbowl we have carved out a niche for ourselves offering pet foods and pet accessories online. We’ve found there to be a demand for known brands at low prices. On the basis of this success, over the next 12 months we are moving into a much larger premise and expanding our website.''
- BBC News, 28th March 2011
''Before Crufts dog show, investment banker turned internet entrepreneur Adam Taylor prepared himself for a “four-day sales marathon” by watching back episodes of The Apprentice. Mr Taylor runs an online petfood business based in Leamington Spa.''
- Financial Times, 23rd March 2011