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FETCH! Pet Care and AAA Form First-of-Its-Kind Strategic Alliance
FETCH! Pet Care's Professional Pet and Home Care Services Now Offered as a Value Add to Millions of California State Automobile Association (CSAA) and AAA Sojourns(R) Members Across the United States
| Source: FETCH! Pet Care
BERKELEY, CA--(Marketwire - December 11, 2007) - FETCH! Pet Care (www.fetchpetcare.com),
America's largest and most sophisticated pet care franchise offering
professional pet sitting and dog walking services, today announced it has
forged a first-of-its-kind partnership with AAA, North America's largest
motoring and leisure travel organization, to offer AAA members exclusive
discounts for -- and streamlined access to -- FETCH! Pet Care's
professional pet and home care services. This deal marks the first time AAA
has aligned itself with a professional pet and home care services provider
with the national reach and operational capability to provide a high
caliber of service to AAA's 50 million member base.
Under one of two agreements commencing December 11, 2007, FETCH! Pet Care
has partnered with the California State Automobile Association (CSAA) -- a
division of the auto services club that provides auto insurance, travel
services and membership benefits throughout Northern California, Nevada and
Utah. Under the deal, CSAA's more than 4.3 million members will benefit
from an ongoing 10% discount off FETCH! Pet Care services each time they
provide their AAA Show Your Card & Save® membership card number. Also
under the agreement, FETCH! Pet Care will be featured in the "Discounts"
section of the CSAA Web site located at www.CSAA.com, along with leading
brand names such as Hertz®, Marriott® and Barnes & Noble®.
This exclusive AAA Show Your Card & Save membership discount is in addition
to a separate agreement FETCH! Pet Care has signed with AAA Sojourns® --
a division of AAA that offers high quality, custom-tailored vacations that
are created with the member in mind, and include an array of special member
benefits, behind-the-scenes activities and added values only available
through AAA. Under this deal, FETCH! Pet Care services will be offered as
an exclusive value add within the AAA Sojourns 2008 Member Benefit Program,
such that AAA Sojourns will bundle a $20 FETCH! Pet Care discount coupon
with select worldwide vacation packages offered to its members. The AAA
Sojourns bundle will also include the 10% discount off FETCH! Pet Care
services each time a member presents their AAA Show Your Card & Save®
membership card number. FETCH! Pet Care will be featured as one of only
three concierge services promoted in the AAA Sojourns catalog, and within
the "Travel" section of the AAA Web site located at www.AAA.com.
"We're thrilled that America's most trusted name in auto and insurance
coverage, travel and financial products has elected to partner with us, as
it further validates our company's position as the nation's most trusted
provider of professional pet and home care services," said Paul Mann,
founder and CEO of FETCH! Pet Care. "We now proudly display the AAA seal of
approval so consumers from coast to coast can rest assured we meet the high
standard of quality required to be an AAA partner provider."
Steve Sumner, CSAA's senior alliances manager, observed, "The partnership
with FETCH! Pet Care is significant to our members as pet owners within our
network will not only save money through the arrangement, but also benefit
from direct access to a reliable, nationwide source for pet and home care
that's available whenever and wherever they need it. Pet owners are also
now better able to take their pets with them when they travel, since FETCH!
Pet Care can readily provide care through its day care or overnight private
boarding services at their destination."
FETCH! Pet Care provides pet owners with peace of mind while they are away
from their pets. The company offers a wide range of services that cater to
pet owners' specific needs and budgets, including private leashed and group
off-leash dog outings, overnight sitting and daily cat and small pet visits
in the client's home, boarding and daycare in the sitter's home, pet
taxiing, Go FETCH! four-legged fitness, yard pet waste removal, and
miscellaneous home care.
"The travel industry at large has much to gain from FETCH! Pet Care's
Affiliate Partner Program initiative, as our nationwide referral source for
professional pet care eliminates a common barrier among clientele, and can
be leveraged to create pet-friendly vacation travel packages that
differentiate one travel agency from another to establish a competitive
marketplace edge," noted Kari Miller, vice president of business
development for FETCH! Pet Care. "With surveys showing that almost a full
quarter of dog owners throughout the U.S. will 'avoid travel with overnight
stays' if hotels and resorts don't allow pets, our 'anywhere, anytime' day
care or overnight private boarding services readily solve this problem that
is undoubtedly costing the travel and tourism industry millions in
opportunity loss."
Consumers and interested business affiliates can reach FETCH! Pet Care
through its Web site at www.FetchPetCare.com or via toll-free telephone at
1-866-FETCH-ME, where they simply enter their 5-digit zip code to be
quickly connected to the FETCH! Pet Care office nearest them.
About AAA
As North Americas largest motoring and leisure travel organization, AAA
provides more than 50 million members with travel, insurance, financial and
automotive-related services. Since its founding more than 100 years ago in
1902, AAA has been a leader and advocate for the safety and security of all
travelers. AAA clubs can be visited on the Internet at www.AAA.com.
About FETCH! Pet Care, Inc.
Founded in 2002 and with over 1,400 service areas across the United States,
FETCH! Pet Care is the pet sitting industry market leader -- the new face
of pet care in the 21st century. The company offers a humane alternative to
kennel boarding by providing loving, in-home overnight and/or daily care to
any kind of pet in the most professional and reliable manner possible.
FETCH! Pet Care's carefully selected, screened and trained pet sitters and
dog walkers, who are all pet owners themselves, have serviced over 10,000
clients this past year alone. The company has been featured in Small
Business Opportunities magazine's top 20 "Boom Businesses" to get into in
2007, named among Pet Product News International's "25 to Watch in 2007"
and included in Entrepreneur magazine's coveted Franchise 500 list in
January 2007 and in its "7 Hot Businesses That Can Make You Rich" feature
in September 2007. For franchise information or to find a location near
you, visit the company's Web site at www.FetchPetCare.com or call the
corporate office at 1-866-FETCH-ME.