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venturebeat online pet supply company lifts $10M even as sector s growth plummets VentureBeat Wire Subscribe to Venture Beat: Latest stories & contributors: Email Updates Other Feeds: VentureBeat Life Sciences VentureBeat Wire VentureBeat Jobs Explore tags Browse companies Full Archive --> Venture Capital Startups IPOs Private Equity Digg this Bookmark this Print version Email story sphere it online pet supply company increases $10M even as sector s growth plummets By Matt Marshall What is it with pet supplies and Internet booms? Forrester Research, a market research company, projects that sales of pet supplies will grow 30 percent this year, down from 81 percent last year, part of a barrage of statistics used by the New York Times to cry out that online sales are now slowing overall . Pets.com and its sock puppet (pictured on top), of course, symbolized the boom and bust of the last Internet era , going from IPO on Nasdaq to liquidation in nine months. It was best known for its Super Bowl ad, which cost the company $1.2 million. Now, Pet Food Direct , of Harleysville, Pa., an online pet food retailer that was born right around the time of Pets.com s demise in 2000, has raised $10 million to what else? spend on its advertising and marketing.

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