PETCO Health and Wellness Company, Inc.

FOUNDED: 1965

CEO: Ron Coughlin

HEADQUARTERS: San Diego

BUSINESS: Pet supplies

REVENUE: $4.9 billion (2021)

STOCK: WOOF (traded on NASDAQ)

EMPLOYEES: 27,000

WEBSITE: Petco.com

NOTABLE: PETCO started as United Pharmacal Company, a mail-order veterinary supply business, with its first retail store opening in La Mesa in 1976.