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From Whim to Worldwide Impact – A Journey of Compassion and Success

date icon 2 minutes to read date icon 1st August, 2023

Pets 2 Places have had their fair share of news stories across the years

From inspirational female founder Claire Harris sharing her heart wrenching life story to multi award winning #SBS winning entrepreneur to saving pets lives

Pets 2 Places has certainly made an impact not just on their founding area of Milton Keynes but nationwide.

Pets 2 Place ltd founded in 2014 by widowed mother Claire Harris has been taking the business from strength the strength

Having started the business on a bit of a whim, Pets 2 Places has grown significantly, even conituing to offer the service throughout Covid. Wjilst most business shut down and staff furloughed Pets 2 Place carried on providing their essential service to the most vulnerable owners and their pets not just in their local community but further afield to

‘Covid is actually when we really came into our own’ said founder Claire Harris
‘I was just about to launch the franchise opportunities when Covid hit, such a frustrating time for me, but the flip side of that has been how the business has evolved’
‘We’ve taken on a whole new generation of customers with Generation Z and Millennials now being the majority of pet owners (54%), before Covid the customers were mostly people over 70, but with the way society is changing out customer base has changed too’

With a new franchisee joining the business in 2022 in Solihull, Claire has continued to grow the business, including winning the coveted Theo Paphitis #SBS Small Business Sunday award at the end of 2022.

Taking a step back from running the pet taxi in her home town of Milton Keynes, Claire’s plans are to start growing the franchise network to include more areas in the UK
I looking for people in Manchester, Leeds, London, Nottingham, Northampton, Bournemouth and Oxford to start off with, but anyone can apply from any area in the UK

These are the areas we need people the most due to the amount of customer enquiries we get, but we have over 300 opportunities across the UK.
Its such a needed service, there really isn’t anyone offering the unique service we offer right now, and with a 75% repeat customer rate month on month the business speaks for itself

Pets 2 Places continues to grow and build, with more awards in the pipeline and sights set on International growth within the next 5 years, you can see Pets 2 Places is really going places!