{"id":25682,"date":"2025-11-06T13:49:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rewe-group.com\/en\/?p=25682"},"modified":"2026-01-14T16:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:55:30","slug":"pawsome-dream-jobs-andrea-ozekker-is-a-groomer-at-zooroyal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rewe-group.com\/en\/press-and-media\/newsroom\/stories\/pawsome-dream-jobs-andrea-ozekker-is-a-groomer-at-zooroyal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pawsome dream jobs: Andrea Ozekker is a groomer at ZooRoyal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From 2026, ZooRoyal – REWE Group’s modern pet supplies retailer – will be rolling out its own brick-and-mortar stores across Germany. What has been generating enthusiasm especially online and in REWE and PENNY stores will then also be available to experience in person: a modern store concept, a wide range of specialist pet products\u2014and, above all, people who are passionate and knowledgeable about what they do.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pawsome dream jobs: Tim Heiler is an aquarist at ZooRoyal<\/h2> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/a>\n <\/button>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The rollout of the ZooRoyal stores marks the beginning of a new chapter in REWE’s history. In addition to retail sales assistants, we will soon be welcoming completely new, exciting job profiles among our colleagues. Whether it’s a groomer, an aquarist or a buyer for dog beds and cat scratching posts: in our series “Animal dream jobs”, we introduce you to ZooRoyal colleagues who have turned their passion into a profession and show how diverse working with and for animals can be.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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She was actually supposed to become deputy store manager at REWE’s Kim Ide, brand new ZooRoyal store in Elmshorn. But when the retailer and his store manager Jennyver Solbau were urgently looking for someone to run the store FellSpa, Andrea Ozekker decided to take a different path. The trained hairdresser explains: I trimmed my giant schnauzer myself for 15 years and then quickly trained as a dog groomer. ZooRoyal supported me completely in everything.<\/q> Today, at the age of 56, she is living her dream job.<\/p>\n

The FellSpa is an important part of the ZooRoyal specialist store concept. There is a shortage of groomers in many German cities. With our FellSpa, we attract customers to our stores, offer them an attractive additional service and turn them into loyal regular customers,<\/q> says Marcel Bersch, the ZooRoyal managing director responsible for brick-and-mortar stores. The fact that Andrea’s appointments are often fully booked for months in advance shows that the service is well received by animal lovers.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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