Who owns Pet's Market?
Pet's Market is owned by Grupo Melo (Panama, Latinex: MELO).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Empresas Melo, S.A. informe anual 2025 / annual report 2025. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Empresas Melo, S.A. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇵🇦 Panama, Panama City
- Origin
- 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
- Category
- Pet & animal care › Pet supplies & services › Pet supplies
- Parent ticker
- Latinex: MELO
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Pet's Market
Pet's Market is the Costa Rican half of the Melo group's pet business, a chain of seventeen specialist stores. In 2025 it went through what the company calls a strategic transformation, consolidating its veterinary staff, expanding services, renegotiating commercial terms with suppliers and strengthening its presence in digital channels. It sits in the same division as the Panamanian Melo Pet & Garden shops.
Ownership timeline of Pet's Market
- Current owner Grupo Melo [1] reported
Where Pet's Market sits in Grupo Melo
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Grupo Melo
Grupo Melo controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 2 of them in pet & animal care.
Also in pet & animal care
Other brands in pet supplies, and who owns them
The 30 brands in pet supplies on Brandtree belong to 16 owners. The largest is Tractor Supply, with 3; Grupo Melo has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Aqueon | Central Garden & Pet | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Frisco | Chewy | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Musti | Sonae | 🇵🇹 Portugal |
| 4health | Tractor Supply | 🇺🇸 United States |
| BarkBox | BARK | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Fresh Step | Clorox | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Cat's Pride | Oil-Dri | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Reddy | Petco | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Grupo Melo
Grupo Melo is a publicly listed company headquartered in Panama City, Panama. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as Latinex: MELO.
Empresas Melo is a Panamanian holding company whose businesses run from hatcheries and feed mills to hardware shops, pet stores, vehicle dealerships and a fried chicken chain. It describes itself as 100 per cent Panamanian, with more than seventy years of agro-industrial and commercial activity, and it employed 5,528 people at the end of 2025. Sales that year were $477.61 million, of which foods were 37.9 per cent, its retail warehouses 30.2 per cent, machinery and vehicles 20.0 per cent, restaurants 10.8 per cent and real estate 1.1 per cent; net income was B/.15.9 million, up 10 per cent on 2024.
🇨🇷 Pet's Market and other Costa Rican brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 13 brands that began in Costa Rica. 3 of them (23%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Pet's Market among them.
- Almacenes AV — Dos Pinos 🇨🇷
- Cemaco — Corporación Favorita 🇪🇨
- Liberty Costa Rica — Liberty Latin America 🇧🇲
- SANSA — SANSA 🇨🇷
- Coronado — Dos Pinos 🇨🇷
- Delactomy — Dos Pinos 🇨🇷
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Pet's Market?
The parent company of Pet's Market is Grupo Melo, a publicly listed company headquartered in Panama.
Is Pet's Market Costa Rican or Panamanian?
Pet's Market originated in Costa Rica, but it is owned today by Grupo Melo, which is headquartered in Panama. So Pet's Market is a Costa Rican-origin brand under Panamanian ownership.
Is Pet's Market still owned by Grupo Melo?
Yes. As of 20 September 2026, Pet's Market is still owned by Grupo Melo. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Empresas Melo, S.A. informe anual 2025 / annual report 2025 — Empresas Melo, S.A., Annual report; retrieved 20 September 2026.
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