![]() ![]() ![]() In a recent four-city tour in Colombia, Ticktin said his partners sold roughly $100,000 in just one week. Overseas, a rising middle class also is spending more on pets. In the United States alone, spending on pets has more than tripled to nearly $56 billion last year, according to the American Pet Products Association. Ticktin is tapping a market that has exploded in the past two decades. He’s been developing new products ever since, winning national and local awards and becoming the largest business of its kind in South Florida. But buyers asked for a fuller product line. Then he added a service sprinkling an anti-flea powder in homes.Īfter a customer copied his service, Ticktin tried to retail his powder. “I want to make her pet products mimic what she has in her own bathroom,” said Richard Ticktin, founder and chief executive of the company that now sells more than $8 million yearly to more than 50 countries.Ĭhemistry buff Ticktin started the business in his garage in his home off Las Olas Boulevard almost 20 years ago.Ī recent college grad, he’d been running a company installing underground radio wires as invisible fences to keep pets inside yards. With women buying most pet products, Synergy Labs takes its cues from homemakers’ purchases. Another, Pooch Scents, is packaged in bottles that look like top-shelf perfume vials.Ī soon-to-debut pet toothbrush - designed with three heads to clean the inside and outside of the mouth and the pet’s face at the same time - will come in blister packs like toothbrushes in any supermarket. One popular line, Richard’s Organics, looks like brands found at a high-end natural food store. The company makes pet health products in colors, fragrances and packages similar to those for humans. ![]() From oatmeal shampoo for dogs to mouth freshener for cats, Synergy Labs of Fort Lauderdale is growing by tapping into the worldwide trend to humanize pets. ![]()
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