{"id":43407,"date":"2014-09-11T09:41:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T08:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/?p=43407"},"modified":"2021-05-24T11:33:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T10:33:47","slug":"adam-taylor-lexi-tamasan-petshopbowl-co-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/adam-taylor-lexi-tamasan-petshopbowl-co-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Taylor and Lexi Tamasan: PetShopBowl.co.uk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Adam Taylor &amp; Lexi Tamasan, 32 and 26<\/b><br> <b>Company: <\/b>PetShopBowl.co.uk<br> <b>Web: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petshopbowl.co.uk\">www.petshopbowl.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Listed twice on our <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-100\/2014\/14-petshopbowl-co-uk\/\">Startups 100 index<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/service-business-of-the-year-finalist-2013-petshopbowl-co-uk\/\">Service Business of the Year finalist in 2013<\/a> at our Startups Awards, PetShopBowl.co.uk&rsquo;s young founders claim to have built the &ldquo;UK&rsquo;s friendliest online shop&rdquo;, but their proposition has delivered much more than smiles and charm. The e-commerce business, which sells pet food online direct to pet owners (offering savings on over 10,000 pet supplies) and via a smart &ldquo;bottomless bowl&rdquo; automatic subscription model, started with a modest &pound;5,000 Prince&rsquo;s Trust loan three years ago and can now boast around 100,000 customers, helping to drive impressive revenues of &pound;3m in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Founders Adam Taylor and Lexi Tamasan marked a major coup this year when PetShopBowl secured a &pound;250,000 grant from the Rural Growth Network, which will be used to launch the site into the hugely lucrative &pound;30bn European pet food market. The profitable company will also be launching its own affordable premium dog food brand later this year as the founders look to increase revenue to &pound;5m.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Taylor &amp; Lexi Tamasan, 32 and 26 Company: PetShopBowl.co.uk Web: www.petshopbowl.co.uk Listed twice on our Startups 100 index and a Service Business of the Year finalist in 2013 at our Startups Awards, PetShopBowl.co.uk&rsquo;s young founders claim to have built the &ldquo;UK&rsquo;s friendliest online shop&rdquo;, but their proposition has delivered much more than smiles and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91469,"featured_media":43528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-class-of-2014"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Adam Taylor and Lexi Tamasan: PetShopBowl.co.uk - 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