Bob Vetere, president and CEO of the American Pet Products Association (APPA), shared new findings from APPA's 2017 - 2018 National Pet
Owners Survey at Global Pet Expo in Orlando, Fla..
Of 196 pet
owners surveyed at the hospital, 99 said the death of their pets caused them to relive the deaths of family members and friends.
Not exact matches
At least that's what preliminary data from the U.S. Census Bureau, in its
Survey of Business
Owners, shows.
Despite the very real challenges that keep many small - business
owners cautious, a recent
survey of the Women Presidents» Organizations» Zenith members reported that these women - owned businesses with annual revenues of
at least $ 50 million are more optimistic than one might expect.
The study
surveyed 348 Canadian business
owners, C - suite executives and senior managers,
at companies headquartered in Canada with 50 or more employees.
Millennial small business
owners have more confidence in their retirement savings than baby boomers, according to our
survey, possibly because millennial
owners started their business
at a younger age on average (26 vs. 43 years old), allowing more time for them to grow their businesses» profit margins and create comfortable retirement plans.
While these
survey results among small business
owners may not surprise political reporters, the level
at which optimism has been knocked off track is alarming.
Tack on waning consumer sentiment — the latest Conference Board consumer confidence
survey puts consumer optimism
at 90, down nine points from its Ocotber reading — and it's hardly surprising
owners aren't feeling super positive right now, Vitner says.
To become a Top Pick, a car must excel
at the publication's track tests, offer average or better reliability, perform effectively in government or industry crash tests, and return high
owner - satisfaction scores in Consumer Reports»
surveys.
While the economic and technological landscape has changed over the past five years, what keeps business
owners up
at night has largely stayed the same, the
survey finds.
According to our sentiment
survey, the number of business
owners who indicate that they feel optimistic about the small business economy remains low,
at 57 percent.
Surveys by several different organizations find that,
at the 100 - day mark, roughly 60 percent of small business
owners approved of Trump's performance or believed his presidency would be good for their companies.
Four in five women hope to grow their businesses «substantially» or «
at least a moderate amount» by 2013, according to a
survey of some 700 female business
owners done by PNC Financial Services Group.
A report from the nonpartisan Fiscal Policy Institute's Immigration Research Center, for instance, looked
at data from the
Survey of Business
Owners and the American Community Survey and determined that though immigrants make up 13 percent of the U.S. population in general, they make up 18 percent of small business owners, and that immigrant - owned businesses account for 14 percent of private sector emplo
Owners and the American Community
Survey and determined that though immigrants make up 13 percent of the U.S. population in general, they make up 18 percent of small business
owners, and that immigrant - owned businesses account for 14 percent of private sector emplo
owners, and that immigrant - owned businesses account for 14 percent of private sector employment.
With this kind of anchor in Redmond's business community, entrepreneurs are likely salivating
at the opportunities: Businesses here earned about $ 7.4 million on average, the highest in our top 10 communities, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2007
Survey of Business
Owners.
The
survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Poll on behalf of CareerBuilder among 88 executives ages 18 and over (CEO, Chairman / Board Member, Partner / Principal,
Owner, or Company President with company revenue of
at least $ 50 million) from April 14 to 21, 2015.
So while our
survey represents men and women business
owners roughly equally, in the broader economy, men - owned small businesses outnumber women - owned businesses
at a rate of nearly two to one.
In our spring
survey of emerging nations,
at least seven - in - ten cell phone
owners said they use mobile devices to text in six of seven Latin American countries
surveyed.
A new
survey conducted by payroll services company Paychex of small business
owners looks
at how those entrepreneurs are looking
at major issues in the presidential election.
The English Housing
Survey 2012 has found that almost 50 % of homes occupied by their
owners have
at least two bedrooms that are not considered «necessary».
THE Rivers State Ministry of Lands and
Survey has dismissed the claim in some quarters that the ongoing land acquisition exercise by the state government is aimed
at victimising land and property
owners in the state.
This does not mean they are inactive on their land; nearly half of the timber harvested in the U.S. comes from family forest lands, but only 13 percent of family forest
owners have written forest management plans and only 20 percent had received professional forestry advice
at the time of the
survey.
A large majority of Americans — including gun
owners — continue to support stronger policies to prevent gun violence than are present in current federal and most state law, according to a new national public opinion
survey conducted by researchers with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research
at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Lam, now a senior analyst for Blue Earth Consultants, and other researchers
at OSU
surveyed 191 pet
owners and found nearly half of them got rid of unneeded care products and medicine via the garbage; Blue Earth, based in Oakland, California, is an environmental management consulting division of ERG.
Winds of Change — Long - term Tatra
owner Delwyn Mallett
surveys the pioneering use of wind tunnels in automotive body design, focussing on the influential work of Hungarian aerodynamicist Paul Jaray / The very first Jaguars — Celebrating 80 years since the first use of the Jaguar name, Paul Skilleter looks
at William Lyons's initial forays into mass production and explains what these early cars are like to live with / Vintage Revival Montlhéry 2015 — David Burgess-Wise reports from the historic banked circuit south of Paris and from the hundreds of rare pre-1940 cars and motorcycles entered selects his personal highlights / «Home, Allaston» — Mike Allaston's family photograph albums detail the careers of his father and grandfather as professional chauffeurs.
Unlike J.D. Power's initial quality
surveys, which ask new
owners how many issues they have with their cars during the first 90 days, the Vehicle Dependability Study looks
at how many problems
owners have had over the past year with cars that are now three years old (the 2010 model year).
Philip Ruth: Despite landing
at the bottom of the latest Consumer Reports
Owner Satisfaction
Survey, our tested 2016 Acura ILX A-SPEC was notably fun to drive, with a fast - acting combo of 201 horsepower and a six - speed, dual - clutch automatic.
Consumer Reports just released the results of its Annual Auto Reliability
Survey and — as we wrote about from last year's Connected Car Expo
at the LA Auto Show — infotainment systems and continuously variable transmissions are giving automakers a major black eye, and Tesla
owners feel a lot differently about their cars than Consumer -LSB-...]
The Ford Focus finished 51st out of the 75 cars ranked in our 2017 Driver Power
owner satisfaction
survey of cars currently on sale in the UK and certainly deserves consideration for anyone looking for a fine - looking, great - driving car that offers plenty of equipment
at a reasonable price.
The previous generation of Volvo XC60 finished ninth out of the 75 cars ranked in our 2017 Driver Power
owner satisfaction
survey and the latest version should perform
at least as well, but was too new to feature in our 2018 Driver Power results.
Since a
survey last year of new car
owners placed the LeSabre
at No. 2 on the list of the world's most trouble free cars and No. 1 among domestic cars, LeSabre sales have skyrocketed.
It's a shame about the sub-par service buyers seem to receive
at the dealerships, as the Driver Power
survey also pointed out holes in the standard of care that
owners receive when visiting a main BMW dealer.
Consumer Reports just released the results of its Annual Auto Reliability
Survey and — as we wrote about from last year's Connected Car Expo
at the LA Auto Show — infotainment systems and continuously variable transmissions are giving automakers a major black eye, and Tesla
owners feel a lot differently about their cars than Consumer Reports did when they tested it.
The earlier IIHS
survey, which involved
owners of Volvo and Infiniti vehicles with crash avoidance features, also found that fewer drivers kept lane departure warning on
at all times than other features.
Interview (Starts
at 12:05)-- Stephen Windwalker of Kindle Nation gives us a sneak preview of information he's gleaned from his fifth
survey of Kindle
owners.
The
survey also covered where people were using the apps, finding heavy usage
at home, with about 78 % of tablet
owners reporting they used apps
at home and 55 % of smart phone
owners using apps in the car.
ChangeWave
surveyed 153 iPad
owners and found a 91 percent satisfaction rate, which nears «nosebleed» levels, says Paul Carton, vice president of research
at ChangeWave.
A
survey of 1,430 tablet
owners in the U.S. conducted March of this year suggests that the most popular use for tablets
at this point could be gaming.
The share of houses bought by first - time
owners is
at its lowest level in nearly three decades and down sharply from 2013, according to a
survey out Monday from the National Association of Realtors.
The 2015/2016 American Pet Products Association (APPA) National Pet
Owners Survey reports latest bird ownership numbers
at 6.1 million U.S. households.
Approximately 42.9 million American homes own
at least one cat, and there are 85.5 million pet cats in the U.S., according to the 2015 - 2016 APPA National Pet
Owners Survey.
According to the latest American Pet Product Association Pet
Owners»
Survey, pet ownership in America continues to rise, now standing
at 77.5 million dogs and 93.6 million cats.
The
survey of 1000 pet
owners was conducted by Pets
at Home in March of this year (2013) to mark the start of «National Flea Month».
Pet
owner surveys conducted by Packaged Facts in 2015 reveal good price to be the top factor influencing the purchase of a pet oral care product, cited by 41 percent of respondents, with veterinarian recommendation
at 36 percent; 43 percent of pet
owners choose not to have their pets» teeth cleaned by a veterinarian because they believe that cleaning a pet's teeth
at home is just as effective.
The authors
surveyed 70 folks whose cats had been diagnosed with FIC and as a control,
surveyed 95 cat
owners whose cats were patients
at the same veterinary hospital, but had never shown signs of urinary tract problems.
The National Pet
Owners Survey claims that in 2007, 63 percent of all households in the United States had
at least one pet — that's more than 70 million homes.
Surveys indicate that begging
at the table is one of the chief
owner complaints, and is both charming and endearing and annoying and sometimes embarrassing, all
at the same time.
The American Veterinary Medical Association conducted a
survey that said stray dogs
at shelters WITHOUT a microchip were returned to their
owners 21.9 % of the time.
Once
at the clinic, more than half of cat
owners are less than completely satisfied with waiting room comfort, yet twenty - four percent of the clinics
surveyed have yet to implement changes, and an additional thirty - five percent of the clinics have no intention of addressing these issues.1
The American Pet Products Association 2008 National Pet
Owners Survey, though, indicates that 64 percent of pet cats are indoor - only during the daytime, and 69 percent are kept in
at night [3].