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Pet Valu's 2025 Companions for Change(TM) Fundraising Initiatives Exceed $4.3 Million
MARKHAM, Ontario, Dec. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pet Valu, the leading Canadian specialty reta...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Pet Valu’s 2025 Companions for Change™ Fundraising Initiatives Exceed $4.3 MillionPhilanthropic program supports emergency relief, major capital projects, Dog Guides and community animal shelters\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n MARKHAM, Ontario, Dec. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pet Valu, the leading Canadian specialty retailer of pet food and pet-related supplies, proudly announced today that its philanthropic program, Companions for Change, has received more than $4.3 million in monetary and product donations so far in 2025 for Canadian animal organizations.\n \n\n “We’re very grateful to our devoted pet lovers, franchisees, corporate store teams and vendors whose generosity helped us surpass last year’s record-breaking results. Thanks to their ongoing support, the Companions for Change program has collected almost $37 million since 2010, one hundred per cent of which is distributed to Canadian animal rescues, shelters and charities,” says Tanbir Grover, Chief Marketing and Digital Officer at Pet Valu. “We’re very proud that we’re able to make a meaningful difference to hundreds of Canadian animal rescues, shelters and charities.”\n \n\n As wildfires and floods displaced thousands of Canadians and their pets this year, the Companions for Change program stepped in to donate much needed pet essentials such as food, litter, bowls, collars, leashes and crates to animal organizations that were providing on-the-ground assistance to evacuated animals and their devoted pet lovers. Animal Food Bank, Canadian Disaster Animal Response Team (CDART), Steinbach Animal Rescue and the Ontario SPCA each received emergency donations. The Niagara SPCA received an emergency product donation to assist with an unexpected, larger than usual, cat intake.\n \n\n With the goal of leveraging its scale to make meaningful impact, since 2018, Companions for Change sponsorships have been helping worthy Canadian animal organizations fund larger capital projects. In 2025, Pet Valu committed more than $450,000 to sponsorships, including three mobile units: a mobile vet clinic for Coastal Animal Rescue & Education (“CARE”) Network Society on Vancouver Island, a transport bus for Just Four Paws Rescue Society in lower mainland British Columbia, and a transport van for Restigouche County SPCA...