Purveyors of Creature Comforts
Focus on: Business Strategies Twenty years of steady growth and smart acquisitions have propelled Doctors Foster & Smith to the top spot among pet-supply catalogers.
1984 Rory Foster is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease and leaves the partnership.
1985 The catalog business is moved into its own facility in Rhinelander, WI.
1987 Rory Foster dies of complications from Lou Gehrig’s disease. (To date, the company has donated about $20,000 to foundations for A.L.S./Lou Gehrig’s disease.)
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