Pets at Home's revenue soared over the past year after it was boosted by the boom in pet ownership during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Cheshire-headquartered business said group revenue jumped by 7.9% to a record £1.14bn for the year to March 25.
The retailer said it was buoyed by an increase in new pet owners, with the 海角视频's pet population rising by "an estimated 8% in the 12 months following the first lockdown".
This particularly sparked a rise in a retail revenues, which passed £1bn in a year for the first time.
Pets at Home added that sales of puppy-focused products jumped by 26%, while kitten products surged by 37%.
It also said that underlying pre-tax profits for the year dipped by 6.4% year on year to £87.5m after it was weighed down by £30m in "Covid-related revenue restrictions and costs".
The group also returned £28.9m worth of business rates relief to the Government after it was able to trade during the pandemic.
It said it plans to invest around £70m over the current financial year, pumping money into its store transformation programme, digital growth and a new national distribution site.
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Pets at Home has also predicted its pre-tax profits could surge by more than £40m during its current financial year.
On its current trading performance and outlook on the future, the group added that its new financial year has seen "a continuation of the strong momentum" across its retail and veterinary operations.
It also said its pet care model "remains robust" and the changes it has made to the business enable it to continue providing pet care to its customers with "minimal disruption".
The group now anticipates that its underlying pre-tax profit for the 53 weeks to March 31, 2022, will be in the range of £120m to £130m.
Chief executive Peter Pritchard said: "We ended this unprecedented year a far stronger pet care business.
"Despite challenges to how we were able to do business, we grew our market share across all channels and our underlying growth trajectory accelerated.
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"Our loyalty clubs saw record periods of new customer registration, strong growth in subscription customers increased the visibility and quality of our sales profile, whilst new clients across our veterinary estate helped increase practice profitability and cash flow.
"We achieved all of this while remaining mindful at all times of doing the right thing for all our stakeholders.
"Covid-19 has structurally changed the dynamics of the pet care market. We estimate that the rising level of pet ownership, combined with structural demand drivers such as premiumisation and humanisation, has increased the outlook for growth across our addressable market, and in conjunction with our expectations of continuing to take market share, provides a tailwind to the £600m customer revenue opportunity we see across our business over the medium term.
"We will, as the 海角视频's leading omnichannel pet care provider, capitalise on this opportunity through continued investment in our infrastructure, further digitising our business and leveraging our extensive and unique dataset to provide insight throughout the customer lifetime to support investment decision-making that will drive quality and profitable growth.
"I am incredibly grateful for the tireless efforts of all our colleagues and partners across the group in the most challenging of environments and am very proud of their collective achievements this year. I look to the future with much confidence."