A new trend has set among pet owners, known as ‘functional pampering’- which is driving the premium pet products market. This is the latest example of how much care pet owners lavish on their pets.

Owners who make big money and spare no expense in caring for their pets (nicknamed uber-owners) are occupying a significant share of the $47 billion pet market. One in three pet-owning households in the United States qualifies as a premium pet household. That translates to 17.4 million of the 52.8 million dog- or cat-owning households being premium.

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The Home Office is under scrutiny today as it has been accused of not investigating incidents of credit card fraud seriously.

APACS, the UK trade association for payments, has released figures which state ‘fraud on lost or stolen cards totaled £89m in 2005 and counterfeit card fraud amounted to £96.8m’ in the same year. The facts show that card crime is high, just last year ‘700,000 individual cases were reported, with the average loss per case amounting to £608.’

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Ethical Business; it seems to be all the rage these days. So it was no surprise when BAE publicised their intentions to join the ethical bandwagon signing none other than ex Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, as their paragon of integrity.

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