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SilverCape Releases Revised Proposal to Acquire PetMed Express for $3.00 per Share in Cash

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SINGAPORE, June 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SilverCape Investments Limited (“SilverCape”), a Singapore-based single family-office, today released an open letter to the board of directors (the “Board”) of PetMed Express, Inc. (“PetMed” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: PETS) calling on the Board to engage with SilverCape on a revised proposal to acquire all outstanding shares of Common Stock of PetMed for $3.00 per share in cash with no financing contingency (the “Proposal”). The proposed purchase price represents a premium of approximately 70% to PetMed’s closing share price of $1.76 on June 26, 2026.

In its letter to the Board, SilverCape outlines its belief that:

The full text of SilverCape’s letter to the Board in respect of its Proposal is below:

June 29, 2026

PetMed Express, Inc.

420 South Congress Avenue

Delray Beach, FL 33445

Attention: Leslie C.G. Campbell, Chair and Interim CEO; Justin Mennen, Lead Independent Director; James LaCamp, Director; Leah A. Solivan, Director; and Peter Batushansky, Director.

Dear Members of the Board of Directors (the “Board”):

As you know, SilverCape Investments Limited (“we”, “us”, “our” and “SilverCape”) is a significant stockholder of PetMed Express, Inc. (“PetMed” or the “Company”), owning approximately 12% of the Company’s outstanding common stock. We are deeply aligned with our fellow stockholders, many of whom likely share our alarm at the stunning destruction of value that PetMed stockholders have suffered over the past 1, 3, and 5-year periods. On July 2, 2021, PetMed's shares traded at $32.30; and closed on June 26, 2026 at $1.76 – representing a massive destruction of stockholder value. PetMed’s poor business and financial performance, rapid management turnover, and its lack of strategic direction over the last several quarters made it increasingly clear to us that PetMed was no longer viable as a public company.

SilverCape advanced a solution that it believed would restore liquidity and immediate value to stockholders and offer an opportunity to rebuild the Company away from the glare of the public markets. On December 11, 2025, we advanced a good-faith proposal to acquire the Company for $4.00 per share in cash with no financing contingency, representing a substantial premium over the current stock price.

Without any assurance that the Board would meaningfully engage on our proposal or even run a bona fide M&A process to sell the Company to another buyer, the Board demanded that SilverCape enter a year-long standstill. To enable engagement with the Company, SilverCape offered to enter into a six-month standstill, which would have allowed the Company to engage in discussions with SilverCape, while also running an organized sale process. This was rejected by the Company without any discussion on how the actual process would proceed.

We were surprised then to read in the Company’s Fourth Quarter 2026 and Fiscal Year 2026 Earnings Report that the Company claimed to have “carefully evaluated” two proposals to acquire PetMed, at prices ranging from $4.00 and $4.25 per share, and that instructed its financial advisors to solicit interest from strategic and financial sponsors. Ultimately, asserting that “…after careful deliberation and consideration of the alternatives reasonably available to the Company, the Board determined that it is in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders not to proceed with either of the publicly announced proposals” 1.

It is our understanding that while the Company’s financial advisors engaged in some degree of outreach to potential buyers, the Company did not run a marketed process to sell the Company. In addition, other than perfunctory contact with the Board’s financial advisors, no meaningful engagement on our proposal occurred, nor did we receive any feedback on how we could potentially improve our proposal. Accordingly, we believe that the Company’s disclosure on June 2, 2026 is at best misleading. At worst, it speaks to a Board that would cavalierly reject two proposals that could have delivered substantial cash premiums to PetMed’s long-suffering stockholders, without offering a credible alternative that could restore value for stockholders.

SilverCape’s Revised Proposal

Since we made our original proposal, PetMed’s financial condition has continued to deteriorate, and the Board has failed to provide stockholders with a credible plan that could reverse the Company’s decline. With yet another dismal quarterly and fiscal year report confirming the continued destruction of stockholder value, we call on the Board to engage with us on a revised proposal, on substantially the same terms as outlined in our December 11, 2025 letter, to acquire 100% of the outstanding equity interests of the Company, at a revised price of $3.00 in cash per share of the Company’s Common Stock (the “Proposal”).

While still at a significant premium to the market price of the stock, the revised purchase price reflects the Company’s continued deterioration. We urge the Board to act before the remaining value of the Company is eroded and destroyed.

Reasons the Board Should Engage with the SilverCape Proposal

SilverCape believes its Proposal represents a superior alternative for PetMed stockholders to the Company’s current value destructive course for the following reasons:

Material Deterioration of the Business – PetMed is No Longer Viable as a Public Company

A Lack of Effective Leadership and Institutional Chaos

PetMed’s Broken Governance and Unaligned and Unaccountable Board

All-Cash Purchase Price and Immediate Liquidity

Time is Running Out – The Board Can Still Do the Right Thing

SilverCape calls on each member of the Board to carefully consider their duties to act as independent fiduciaries for stockholders. Continued intransigence in the face of a rapid deterioration of the business and in the absence of a credible alternative is simply irresponsible. Directors have an opportunity to do the right thing, protect their reputations as professional directors, and engage meaningfully on commercial terms with Silver Cape.

To be clear, as a significant stockholder of the Company, SilverCape has advanced a solution that it believes is in the best interests of all stockholders. We also welcome other third-party alternatives that offer stockholders superior value and would be supportive of PetMed running a structured and independent process to consider those alternatives. However, the Board must act with alacrity to surface a solution before it is too late.

Very truly yours,

Peter Kennedy

Managing Director

About SilverCape Investments Limited

SilverCape is a Singapore-based-single-family office with a long-term, patient approach.

Media Contact

Riyaz Lalani / Dan Gagnier

Gagnier Communications LLC

SilverCape@gagnierfc.com

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this press release constitute “forward-looking statements” under the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, identifiable by terms such as, “may,” “will,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “expect,” “estimate,” “intend,” “plan,” “should,” “could,” “target,” “goal,” “potential,” “opportunity,” “continue” or similar expressions. These statements reflect SilverCape’s current expectations on the matters discussed in this press release and are not guarantees of future results or performance and are based on SilverCape’s current expectations, speak only as of the date of this press release and involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performances or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by this press release. Assumptions relating to the foregoing involve judgments with respect to, among other things, future economic competitive and market conditions and future business decisions, all of which are difficult or impossible to predict accurately and many of which are beyond the control of SilverCape.

No Offer or Solicitation

Nothing in this press release shall be construed as constituting an offer to purchase, sell, or exchange, or a solicitation of an offer to purchase, sell, or exchange, any securities, or as soliciting any vote or proxy or in any other context, in any jurisdiction where such offer, solicitation, or sale would not be permitted under applicable law. Any offer of securities, to the extent one is made, will only be made in compliance with applicable registration requirements or an available exemption therefrom under the laws of the United States and any other applicable jurisdiction.

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1 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1040130/000104013026000016/pets-2026331xex991.htm

2 https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001040130/000104013026000019/pets-20260331.htm#i5612d35ddc704c22b6b8aabf807e450f_76

3 https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1040130/000104013025000099/pets-20251210.htm#i68cd12dfba4c4cb9a83e14fceb3cff4a_49