Phillips Pet Food & Supplies Acquires PetFlow (Omnipet, LLC)

Phillips Pet Food Acquires Central Pet Distribution Arm From Central Garden & Pet Co.

April 14, 2026

Logistics & Distribution

Phillips Pet Food (owned by Axar Capital Management) acquired Central Garden & Pet Co.’s pet distribution arm, Central Pet. Gordon Brothers provided $175 million of strategic financing as an integrated asset-based lending facility with a RILO tranche, and will serve as integration agent with real estate and inventory optimization support.

Feeders Pet Supply to Acquire Pet Food Centers

November 3, 2025

Retail

Feeders Pet Supply announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pet Food Centers, based in Evansville, Indiana. The deal will bring four stores in the Evansville area and one store in Clarksville, Tennessee into Feeders Pet Supply’s footprint.

Flowspace Acquires RetailOps

June 14, 2023

Cloud & SaaS

Flowspace has acquired San Diego-based RetailOps to integrate RetailOps' omnichannel retail operations software into Flowspace's OmniFlow fulfillment platform. The deal brings RetailOps' team and founders into Flowspace and is intended to accelerate product development and broaden Flowspace's fulfillment technology capabilities for omnichannel retailers.

Houchens Industries Acquires Feeders Supply, LLC from PNC Riverarch Capital

March 31, 2023

Retail

Houchens Industries, Inc. has acquired Feeders Supply, LLC (Feeders Pet Supply) from PNC Riverarch Capital; terms were not disclosed. Feeders is an omnichannel pet specialty retailer headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky with 53 retail locations and a growing e-commerce platform.

Rainier Partners Invests in Pet Food Express

June 8, 2022

Retail

Rainier Partners, a Seattle-based lower-middle-market private equity firm, has made a growth investment in Pet Food Express (PFE), a California-based omnichannel pet retailer with more than 60 stores. The investment will support PFE's e-commerce acceleration and expansion of its brick-and-mortar footprint while partnering with founder Michael Levy and the existing management team.

Pet Food Experts Acquires United Pacific Pet

April 27, 2021

Logistics & Distribution

Pet Food Experts (PFX) has signed an asset purchase agreement to acquire the operating assets of United Pacific Pet (UPP), a California-based regional distributor of pet food and supplies. The acquisition expands PFX's footprint in the Western U.S., adding UPP's ~115 employees, a 154,000 sq ft warehouse and service to ~1,500 independent pet retailers across California, Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii.