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...Its products are distributed to more than 600 customers including supermarkets, pet shops and vets in dozens of countries, according to its website....
...Just a few decades ago, the vet sector was a cottage industry made up of vet-owned independent clinics....
...In the US, the Federal Trade Commission had ordered German investor JAB to divest some vet clinics, alleging their ownership could have created monopolies....
...The intervention by the CMA follows scrutiny of the veterinary market in the US, where the Federal Trade Commission in 2022 required buyout firm JAB to sell some clinics....
...She hopes visitors can glean insight from this self-sufficient existence: “Electrician, nurse, agronomist, vet, cook, inventor, carpenter… I am all these professions and many others,” she says as she posts...
...However, I preferred Diemme’s more substantial Roccia Vet Sport hiking boots (€469, diemme.com)....
...The group bought the UK vet clinic chain IVC Evidensia in 2014 and has expanded the business to include more than 2,500 clinics across Europe and North America....
...on private equity roll-ups — plans by private investors to consolidate niche sectors such as vet clinics and funeral homes....
...The group owns UK vet clinic chain IVC Evidensia, valued at €12.3bn in 2021, as well as stakes in pet insurer ManyPets and online retailer Zooplus....
...They range from confectionery staples such as Snickers and M&Ms to the Pedigree and Royal Canin pet food brands and VCA, the vet clinic chain it bought for $9.1bn in 2017....
...“You need to know their source and vet suppliers.”...
...And once, sometimes twice, a year I go to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, because I think preventative medicine is better than corrective....
...Before her centre opened five years ago, Voznitsyna was practising in a smaller clinic....
...But advocates say many healthcare centres and rehab clinics need to update their protocols to stop turning away users with wounds....
...The US Federal Trade Commission last month ordered JAB to divest vet clinics twice in less than a month, alleging that two proposed transactions could have created monopolies....
...clinics....
...“Sex workers will lose their place to advertise and vet clients,” says Adeline Berry, a transgender former sex worker currently doing a PhD on gender and criminology....
...In June, the regulator ordered JAB to divest two vet clinics in less than a month....
...Kalaupapa, where the original colony and later the clinic, were located, now has several entities vying for its control: state and national park interests (the National Park Service designated the promontory...
...Dechra spooked analysts by mentioning that — anecdotally — vet visits are slipping in the US. This is a market where 70 per cent of homes, or 90.5m, are thought to have a pet....
...IVC is what is often referred to as a private equity roll-up: it’s been buying up vet clinics and merging them into a giant group, in a debt-fuelled acquisition spree....
...Buying up clinics The rise of IVC illustrates the rapid transformation that private equity can bring when it sweeps through an industry....
...(And don’t miss Maria Shollenbarger’s whistlestop tour around the Highlands, a round-up of hotels, castles and beaches to stir the soul....
...Francis Joseph, 56, of Highlands Ranch, allegedly transferred $118,000 in relief funding from a medical clinic’s account into his personal bank account, after which he spent the money on travel and home...
...Singh sees ample opportunity to take care further with its tele-health service, Connect With A Vet....
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