Who Owns Your Vet?

The Ownership Map

Who owns UK veterinary care?

Of the 7,602 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.

If you're new to this, start with our guides to which vets private equity owns, checking who owns your vet and what the CMA reforms change.

Practice ownership at a glance

Independent
2,794
IVC Evidensia
1,305
CVS Group
911
Pets at Home
854
VetPartners
794
Linnaeus
424
Medivet
405
Non-profit
95
Kin Vet Community
20

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 the balance sheet your vet bill ends up on: private equity funds in Sweden, Luxembourg and the US, a confectionery multinational, and two London-listed companies.

  1. IVC Evidensia 1,305

    Ultimately owned by

    • EQT (largest shareholder)
    • Silver Lake (minority)
    • Nestlé (minority)
  2. CVS Group 911

    Ultimately owned by

    • CVS Group plc
  3. Pets at Home 854

    Ultimately owned by

    • Pets at Home Group plc
  4. VetPartners 794

    Ultimately owned by

    • BC Partners
  5. Linnaeus 424

    Ultimately owned by

    • Mars, Incorporated
  6. Medivet 405

    Ultimately owned by

    • CVC Capital Partners
  7. Kin Vet Community 20

    Ultimately owned by

    • Perwyn
  8. Independent practices 2,794

    Ultimately owned by

    • Local owners
  9. Non-profit practices 95

    Ultimately owned by

    • Charities & trusts
Each band is sized by the number of practices in our register. The smallest are drawn a little bigger so you can read them, and the exact count is always shown. “Former local practice names” are practices that kept their old name after a group bought them. A group owned by a bigger group sits just below it and flows to the same owners. Where a group has several owners, its band is split between them: by each owner's stake where that is published, evenly where it isn't. A percentage appears only when the stake has been published.

7 owners, 37+ 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

1,305 practices

Owned by EQT (largest shareholder) · Silver Lake (minority) · Nestlé (minority)

  • IVC
  • Evidensia
  • My Family Vets
  • Vets Now
  • Video Vets Now
  • PawSquad
  • CPC Cares
  • Blaise Referrals Hospital
  • +13 more
Full ownership profile

Independent practices

2,794 practices (37%) are still owned by the vets who run them. Each one is 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.

We name owners from Companies House records and each group's own published statements. Where a group has several owners, the diagram splits its practices between them: by each owner's stake where that is published, evenly where it isn't. A group owned by a bigger group counts as part of it.

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