Showcase Product News Brief: Plush NB

The Petting Zoo Grows Its Sustainable, Eco-Friendly Plush Line

It’s raining cats and dogs at Maryland-based plush company The Petting Zoo. The company has rolled out another successful, new line of plush cats and dogs. Each features realistic detail and educational value while being constructed of high-quality fabrics and fill made completely out of recycled water bottles. Each plush piece includes recycled paper hang tags along with customer-centric value pricing. It’s obvious that retailers of all sizes are taking notice.

(For more information, or to have a look, call 1-888867-4059, visit www.pettingzooplush.com, email customercare@pettingzooplush.com or circle 59 on the reader service card.)

Additionally, she said, “We have a Planisphere which is great for kids, a star chart that shows them how to find certain constellations in the sky.”

As to supply chain issues, like Densmore, this has not really affected the observatory’s small shop. “We were closed for Covid for a while, and we weren’t selling at all during that period. Now that we are reopened, pretty much everything we have is made in the U.S. or made locally, and although we’ve run out of the moon hats, that’s really more a matter of reordering them.”

The observatory did bring in some new items for kids this year, but it was a one-time situation. “We had children’s books donated to us for the shop from a space museum that recently closed. Some of the books are even signed by the astronauts or book authors,” she said.

While supply chain issues are out there, public land stores are rolling with the situation, either stocking unique, locally made items, or by making sure plentiful toy back-ups to replace the merchandise they may not be able to receive

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