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KELLYN GRANTHAM
SENIOR DIRECTOR, CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT, TARGET
Can you tell us a little about the work you’re involved in at
Target and how it relates to the pet space?
I work within Target’s Corporate Development and Enterprise
Partnerships team. We focus on enabling Target’s strategy via
inorganic opportunities – acquisitions, investments, and enterprise
partnerships. Pets is a large and growing category at Target and we
are excited to partner with brands and businesses that can provide
differentiation to our guests.
Why does Target find the pet industry so interesting at the
moment?
For us, Pets is not just interesting at the moment. Target strives
to bring joy to families every day and we believe family includes
pets. To truly bring joy, we need therefore need to bring joy to
every member of the family, not just the humans. Combine that
with delayed child-rearing and the humanization of pets, there are
a lot of different companies across many business models (brands,
services, technologies) that are continuing to evolve how the pet and
petowner are served.
What sorts of companies are you most interested in meeting at
the Pets & Money Summit?
We’re always interested in meeting with companies that are
developing innovative and novel brands and services that meet our
guests’ needs.
Connect with Kellyn:
www.target.com
2019 Winter Issue • www.WomenInThePetIndustry.com