Who Owns Your Vet?

The Ownership Map

Who really owns UK veterinary care?

Of the 7,393 practices on our register, 62% belong to just 7 corporate groups — most of them backed by private equity firms or global corporations. This page traces every practice up to its ultimate owner.

Practice ownership at a glance

IVC Evidensia
1,289
Pets at Home
840
VetPartners
807
CVS Group
806
Linnaeus
426
Medivet
396
Kin Vet Community
18
Independent practices
2,718
Non-profit practices
93

From the front door to the ultimate owner

The name above a practice door is rarely the name of its owner. Follow any name on the left through the group that runs it to whose balance sheet your vet bill ultimately lands on — private equity funds in Sweden, Luxembourg and the US, a confectionery multinational, and two London-listed companies.

  1. IVC Evidensia 1,289
    • → EQT Partners 45%
    • → Silver Lake 25%
    • → Nestlé S.A. 30%
  2. Pets at Home 840
    • → Pets at Home Group plc
  3. VetPartners 807
    • → BC Partners
  4. CVS Group 806
    • → CVS Group plc
  5. Linnaeus 426
    • → Mars, Incorporated
  6. Medivet 396
    • → CVC Capital Partners
  7. Kin Vet Community 18
    • → Perwyn
  8. Independent practices 2,718
    • → Local owners
  9. Non-profit practices 93
    • → Charities & trusts
All bands are proportional to practice counts in our register (tiny bands are floored for legibility — exact counts are printed). “Former local practice names” are acquired practices still trading under their pre-acquisition name. Where a group has several owners, the flow splits by ownership stake.

7 owners, 40+ brand names

Corporate groups usually keep the local name of the practices they buy. The CMA found that fewer than half of people using a large group's practice knew it was part of a chain. These are the names each group trades under.

IVC Evidensia

1,289 practices

EQT Partners 45% · Silver Lake 25% · Nestlé S.A. 30%

  • IVC
  • Evidensia
  • My Family Vets
  • Vets Now
  • Video Vets Now
  • PawSquad
  • CPC Cares
  • VetSuccess
  • +14 more
Full ownership profile

Independent practices

2,718 practices (37%) are still owned by the vets who run them — each one a separate business with no parent company.

Find an independent vet near you

How this is put together

Practice records come from the RCVS Find a Vet register. Ownership is detected from practice websites, brand patterns and published group data, then verified where possible.

Ultimate-owner stakes are from each group's published ownership structure. Where a group has several investors, the diagram splits its practices by stake.

The CMA's market investigation (final report, March 2026) examined these groups' pricing and transparency. Read the CMA findings

How we determine ownership · The consolidation story in charts