In 2022, the pet market lost some of its foreign brands, but gained new opportunities for the development of local brands and domestic production of pet supplies. How the industry responded to the needs of the market and to what extent it was able to implement import substitution was shown by the main exhibition of the Russian pet industry «ParkZoo», held from September 21 to 23 at the Crocus Expo IEC in Moscow.

Participants of the exhibition

This year «ParkZoo» occupied 5100 sq. m. meters of exhibition space. The bright, well-equipped pavilion allowed the exhibitors to implement the most daring projects in the presentation of their brands.

179 companies presented their products and services, 167 of them had stands, 8 organizations worked in coworking, and one startup presented itself.

The number of participants was slightly less than last year, because some Western brands left the Russian market. But there were 45 new companies in the «ParkZoo» exposition, 12 of which represented China.

Many exhibitors have increased the area of their stands, invested serious funds in their design. The exhibition turned out to be bright and large-scale.

Visitors and business program

10,300 people visited «ParkZoo» in 2022. About 8% of them were at the exhibition for the first time. According to the organizers, a quarter of visitors (25.1%) are representatives of retail trade, 13.1% of guests are employees of wholesale companies, and almost the same number (12.8%) are people engaged in online sales of pet products...