American Pet Products Association
255 Glenville Road
Greenwich, CT 06831
Phone: 203.532.0000
Toll Free: 800.452.1225
Fax: 203.532.0551 www.americanpetproducts.org
APPA's Washington D.C. Office
Suite 100
1900 K Street NW
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: 202.496.7888
Pet Industry Distributors Association
2105 Laurel Bush Rd., Suite 200
Bel Air, MD 21015
Phone: 443-640-1060
Fax: 443-640-1031
e-mail: pida@ksgroup.org www.pida.org
The 2010 Global Pet Expo featured 803 exhibitors, 2,250 booths and more than 3,000 new product launches. 4,495 pet product buyers from around the world attended.
Most people who keep fish have a tank or two; perhaps they start with a five-gallon model and graduate to the 35- or 50-gallon version that doctors put in waiting rooms to keep patients calm. But for a certain segment of the population — many of whom never considered keeping fish before they had a big space to decorate — a showpiece aquarium has become a must-have piece of décor.
There are plenty of studies which show that dogs act as social catalysts, helping their owners forge intimate, long-term relationships with other people. But does that apply in the workplace?