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Livonia-based Pet Supplies Plus is adding 17 to 22 U.S. stores this year and moving its logistics operation out of state as part of a corporate expansion.
The company plans a major rollout of U.S. stores, and to support it plans to consolidate its Ann Arbor and Jackson distribution sites into a larger new site in Indiana.
Pet Supplies Plus has a huge growth curve in its sights. Its 2012 stores will include one in South Lyon. And nationwide in 2013, the company plans 55 to 65 stores and an additional 145 to 160 by 2015.
The company said the new stores will be a combination of company-owned and franchise stores.
The stores will take the company into the Washington, D.C., area this year and bolster its footprint in the Midwest and along the Eastern Seaboard, the company said. Over the next few years, Pet Supplies Plus plans to move into other markets, including Western states.
Pet Supplies Plus, a portfolio company of New York City-based Irving Place Capital, says it's the third-largest pet specialty retailer in the nation, with 258 stores. Of those, 108 are company-owned. Fifty-five of the 258 stores are in Michigan.
The company hired Wixom-based Gerdom Realty & Investment to identify sites in Michigan and Iowa.
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