Business
Woofie's Adds Mobile Grooming Franchise in North Austin
Woofie's North Austin adds mobile grooming, dog walking and pet sitting. The local expansion highlights route planning, service coordination and customer trust.
Skiptown Reworks Memberships Around Grooming and Play
Skiptown has reorganized its memberships around grooming, social visits and bundled pet care. Here is what the plans include and what salon owners can learn.
Pack Pet Care Launches With 18 Daycare and Boarding Sites
Pack Pet Care launched with 18 daycare and boarding locations. Its local-brand promise puts staff continuity, local decisions and owner transitions in focus.
Sparkle Raises $6 Million for Grooming Franchise Growth
Sparkle secured $6 million for grooming franchise expansion. A look at its membership model, operating salons and the difference between licenses and openings.
Pet Grooming Staff Management: The 1099 Test in 2026
Pet grooming staff management gets complicated now when salons use contractors. Learn what federal and state worker-classification tests examine in 2026.
Pet Grooming Business Trends 2026: DIY Care Is Rising
Pet grooming business trends in 2026 reveal rising DIY care and softer salon spending. Here is how grooming businesses can defend demand and value now.
Private Equity Keeps Rolling Up Pet Boarding and Daycare
From Best Friends Pet Hotel's rapid acquisition spree to a wave of new platforms, private equity is consolidating boarding and daycare at a striking pace.
Grooming Salon Marketing 2026: Fill Your Calendar
How grooming salon owners turn before-and-after content, local SEO, Google reviews, and referral systems into booked appointments in 2026.
How Grooming Salons Are Cutting No-Shows in 2026
No-shows cost groomers thousands a year. See how deposits, card-on-file, SMS reminders and waitlists cut empty chairs in 2026, and the loyalty trade-offs.
Groomer Labor Shortage Deepens as 2026 Demand Climbs
The pet grooming industry faces a widening staffing gap in 2026. Inside the wage pressures, training bottlenecks, and retention fixes owners are testing.
How to Raise Grooming Prices in 2026 Without Losing Clients
A 2026 guide to grooming salon pricing strategy: when to raise rates, how to communicate increases, à la carte vs package pricing, and protecting retention.
Opening a Second Grooming Location Without Sinking the First
What actually changes when you open a second grooming salon: the systems, staffing, and cash-flow realities owners must fix before they scale.
Supertails Raises $30M as Pet-Commerce Money Flows
India-based pet platform Supertails raised $30 million, a reminder that pet-economy investment is a global phenomenon reaching well beyond U.S. grooming and boarding.
Digitail Raises $23M Series B for AI Vet Software
Veterinary software maker Digitail closed a $23 million Series B led by Five Elms Capital to expand its AI tools for clinics.
Modern Animal Raises $46M to Expand Tech-Forward Vet Care
Membership vet startup Modern Animal added $46 million in new funding after strong revenue growth, part of a broader surge of capital into pet health.
Tractive Acquires Whistle From Mars Petcare
GPS pet-tracker maker Tractive bought the Whistle brand from Mars Petcare, consolidating the connected-collar market that touches grooming and boarding clients.
PetScreening Closes $80M Series B for Pet-Policy Software
PetScreening raised $80 million to expand its pet- and assistance-animal policy management platform — one of the largest pet-software rounds in recent memory.
Togetherwork Acquires PetExec, Growing Its Pet-Care Software Group
PE-backed Togetherwork bought boarding and daycare software PetExec, adding it to a stable that already includes Gingr and Revelation Pets.
Bansk Group Acquires PetIQ for $1.5 Billion
Private-equity firm Bansk Group bought pet-health products maker PetIQ in a $1.5 billion deal, underscoring investor appetite across the pet economy.
MoeGo Raises $24M Series A to Scale Pet Grooming Software
MoeGo, the grooming and pet-care business software used by thousands of salons, closed a $24 million Series A led by Base10 Partners, with Mars Petcare's venture arm joining the round.
Blackstone Completes $2.3B Acquisition of Rover
Private-equity giant Blackstone took pet-care marketplace Rover private in a $2.3 billion all-cash deal, a landmark for institutional money entering pet services.
DaySmart Acquires Time To Pet, Expanding Its Pet Software Suite
Private-equity-backed DaySmart added pet-sitting and dog-walking platform Time To Pet to its grooming and daycare software lineup, deepening consolidation in pet-care software.
Access Holdings' WagWay Group Buys PUPS Pet Club
PE-backed WagWay Group acquired boarding and daycare operator PUPS Pet Club, adding urban locations in New York and Chicago to its growing pet-services platform.
General Atlantic Backs Village Pet Care Boarding and Grooming Platform
Growth-equity firm General Atlantic launched Village Pet Care, a multi-state platform offering boarding, daycare, grooming, and training across 17 centers.
Togetherwork Buys Gingr, Kicking Off a Pet Software Roll-Up
The 2017 acquisition of Gingr by PE-backed Togetherwork was an early move in what became a multi-year consolidation of pet-care software.