media animal celebrities yeah, you heard me right and the boss of the world s biggest online pet sitting marketplace. plus, your call is important to us. please hold the line. yep, i m going to be catching up with the president of the customer service tech giant salesforce about their latest ai chatbots looking to take the strain. wherever you rejoining me from around the world, once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. you know, during the pandemic lockdowns, more and more of us looked to pets for companionship and comfort, certainly spurring a huge surge in pet ownership in many countries around the world. and that surge created vast new opportunities for businesses that support our pets, from vet services to rubber toys. the increasing demand has seen the amount we spend on pets follow suit. the uptick in ownership, it s come with a change in the way we treat our animals, with the phenomenon known as humanising. yeah, that s treating our animals more l
hello. a very warm welcome to talking business weekly with me, aaron heslehurst. let s go and take a look at what s on the show. this is wednesday, she s my three year old german shepherd cross. i ve had herfor about two and a half years, since the middle of the pandemic, and i spend about £250 a month average on her, which is about 17% of my salary. yep, the global pet industry. it has been booming as more and more of us spend big, pampering our pooches and caring for our cats. a surge in ownership during the pandemic has changed how we treat our furry friends, ushering in a new era of humanising our animals, with social media leading the pack. and it s an industry set to be worth half a trillion dollars by the end of the decade. so i m going to be discussing all of that with these two. there they are, the head of an agency representing social media animal celebrities. yeah, you heard me right. and the boss of the world s biggest online pet sitting marketplace. plus, your
disconnect that you re talking about, particularly, my job is economics, and i m looking at these numbers thinking, this is hard that that doesn t translate as clearly as it should, but as you said, the night is young. the night is young, things are changing. we ve got a long way between now and november. have a great weekend, my friend. you know the expression it s not in our national interest? it often refers to whether the u.s. should or shouldn t get involved in a dispute or political situation elsewhere. once in a while, something that is not in our national interest as it relates to the world happens right here. and donald trump is that thing. donald trump is hurting american national interests in the world. not a hypothetical, not if he s re-elected, but right now. the nato, nato, has a trump problem. so the 32 member military alliance, the largest and most effective in the history of the world, marked its 75th anniversary by working on a plan to trump proof itse
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could join us, it s midnight here in london and 7am in singapore and we start in berlin where it was all smiles earlier as angela merkel played host to le keqiang. he is the second east asian leader to receive the red carpet treatment in berlin this week after india s prime minister on tuesday. the more positive mood, a change on last week when the g 7 countries meeting in sicily saw a split with the united states taking a different position to the rest on issues such as climate change and free trade. the bbc‘s joe mellor climate change and free trade. the bbc‘sjoe mellor has been following the events in berlin. it s tempting to read a lot into this, there have been two east asian leaders here and this comes after a week where tensions between the us and germany have never really been higher. of course these visits are planned a long way in advance and it s true to say press officers of either delegation if you take a look at the trade numbers between china and europe the