Pet Food Express

Pet Food Express
Company type	Private company
Industry	Retail
Genre	Pet store
Founded	1986
Headquarters	500, 85th Avenue; Oakland, California
Products	Pet supplies
Owner	Michael Levy; Mark Witriol
Website	http://www.petfoodexpress.com

37°44′21″N 122°11′31″W / 37.73929°N 122.19208°W / 37.73929; -122.19208

Pet Food Express is a Northern California chain of retail stores that offers premium, holistic, and organic pet food, as well as many other pet supplies, as well as self-service dog washes.^[1] Pet Food Express President and co-owner Michael Levy started a dog training business in 1976 and opened his first San Francisco location in 1980, selling some food and supplies. In ’86, he left dog training to focus on retail and had expanded to three locations by the time his business partner, Mark Witriol, came aboard in 1992. They have consistently expanded, even during the recent recession, and will have more than 40 locations in Northern California by the end of 2011. Michael and Pet Food Express partner with more than 100 non-profit animal rescue and shelter organizations, and regularly donate more than $1 million a year to those organizations. The company set up cat adoption centers in its stores starting in 2011 and claims that approximately 1000 cats have been adopted through its Bay Area stores since the program's inception.^[2] Pet Food Express has a high standard of quality for its food and products. The company motto is: If we won’t feed it to our pets, we won’t sell it for yours.

References

^ http://petfoodexpress.com/products/pet-wash/
^ Harmanci, Reyhan. "San Francisco Teams with Pet Supply Stores on Cat Adoptions". The New York Times. Retrieved April 5, 2012.

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[1] ttp://petfoodexpress.com/products/pet-wash/

[2] Harmanci, Reyhan. "San Francisco Teams with Pet Supply Stores on Cat Adoptions". The New York Times. Retrieved April 5, 2012.

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