The UK pet retail chain Pets at Home increased its total group sales by 5.8 per cent year-on-year to GB 319.4 mio in the last 12 weeks of last year. On a like-for-like (LFL) basis, group sales increased by 8.7 per cent, and by as much as 28.1 per cent on a two-year basis. In retail, Pets at Home grew by 9.8 per cent.
The company grew particularly strongly in the omnichannel category, by 16.7 per cent or 99.3 per cent on a two-year basis. The share of total retail sales thus amounted to 15.9 per cent and increased by 1 per cent compared with the same period in the previous year. Two years ago, the share was 10.3 per cent in the same period of the last 12 weeks of the year. LFL sales growth for the company's Vet Group was reported by Pets at Home as 4 per cent, with a two-year increase of 23.3 per cent. New client registrations at First Opinion veterinary practices averaged about 9 200 per week in the year to date, compared with around 9 000 in the same period last year.
"We now expect the group's full-year adjusted pre-tax profit to be at least GB 140 mio in 2022," Pets at Home highlighted in its report.
