This Week On The Safari, The Ultimate Pet Care: Dogtopia's, Neil Gill

The Safari is a guided tour around the retail, brand and consumer landscape. Mortimer Singer, Traub CEO, interviews the brightest and most innovative industry leaders who share how they are shaping and evolving the industry in the years to come. This week, Neil Gill joins The Safari. 

 

“Our whole proposition of daycare is about building better relationship between the parent and the dog. The stronger the relationship, the more love that develops between the dog and the parent…we’ve done a lot of work around enhancing that joy by developing better canine citizens.”



 

 

Neil Gill is CEO and President of Dogtopia Enterprises, the dog daycare company providing the utmost in quality care through its focus on socialization, exercise, and education. Neil has spent more than 35 years in franchising with international brands such as KFC, Pizza Hut, Brinker International and more than 11 years at Gloria Jean’s Coffees International as CEO, opening more than 1,000 stores across 39 countries. He has experience in taking franchise brands through IPOs and worked in a variety of sectors from on-line education, weight loss, and bakery. We talk about the concept of the “dogification of the human”, his vast experience in franchising, the shifts in the dog and human relationship, and more.

 

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