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PETCO Animal Supplies Stores, the nation's #2 pet supply specialty retailer, is hounding PetSmart for top dog status. As the operating subsidiary of holding company PETCO Animal Supplies, it runs more than 950 stores in all 50 US states. Its 15,000-sq.-ft. superstores carry some 10,000 pet-related items, including premium cat and dog foods (Nutro, Hill's Pet Nutrition), collars, leashes, grooming items, toys, and animal habitats. Its stores also offer grooming, training, vet services, and mixed breed DNA testing, and sponsor pet adoption for cats and dogs with local animal-welfare organizations. PETCO's products are also available through its Web site. Buyout firms took PETCO private in 2006.

Owned by private investment firm Westar, Petmate company was founded by Ben Doskocil in 1961. Petmate was later formed by the recapitalization of Doskocil and Dogloo Inc. Petmate (formerly Doskocil) has got dogs and cats covered. The company is one of the nation's leading providers of non-food products for pets. It makes and sells pet carriers, kennels, bedding, exercise pens, feeders, litter pans, and other products for dogs and cats under the brand Petmate. Petmate has grown through acquisitions in recent years, such as its 2006 purchase of Aspen Pet Products, which specializes in the pet accessories niche and manufactures and markets chew toys, treats, leashes, and collars.

Barks, mews, and caws are music to the ears of Pets at Home. The retailer operates about 230 pet-oriented stores throughout the UK, and also offers its own-brand products through a retail Web site. Pets at Home offers veterinary services, called Companion Care, at the majority of its stores. The company also offers 24-hour emergency services as well as ordinary care. Many Pets at Home stores also offer pet behavior training for some animals. Founder Anthony Preston developed the stores' concept in 1991; in 2004 he sold the majority of his stake in the company to private equity firm Bridgepoint. Management and employees retain an almost 20% interest in the company, which is being groomed to go public in 2010.

Physicians Formula Holdings, Inc. (Holdings) is a cosmetics company, which specializes in developing and marketing products for the mass market channel. The Company's products focus on addressing skin imperfections. Its products address specific, everyday cosmetics needs and include face powders, bronzers, concealers, blushes, foundations, eye shadows, eye liners, brow makeup and mascaras. The Company sells its products to mass market channel to retailers, such as Wal-Mart, Walgreens, CVS, Target and Rite Aid. As of December 31, 2008, its products were sold in approximately 29,500 of the 45,000 stores. Holdings’ develops, manufactures and markets a selection of products in three cosmetics categories: face makeup, eye makeup and others.

Phytobiodermie is first and foremost a revolutionary method of looking at beauty and wellness. It aspires to anticipate, for each individual, the likely direction of the aging process and to help prevent its early aesthetic manifestations, as well as slowing down any established pattern.Phytobiodermie is more than mud and a flashlight -- it is clay masks and light therapy. The company manufactures and distributes natural personal care products based on holistic Chinese medicine and its view of the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Phytobiodermie's products are all manufactured in Switzerland, and are sold to spas in some 20 countries around the world. Phytobiodermie treatments are formulated for a wide variety of face, body, and hair types.

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