Vet Wealth Global
Ethical Acquisition for Independent Practices
Vet Wealth Global buys independent veterinary practices across Europe — at a fair, fully evidenced price — and keeps them run the way you built them: clinical standards intact, your team looked after and animal welfare back at the centre of the job, not a line negotiated away after completion.
You didn't build this practice to flip it. You built it because you're good at the job, because your team trust you and because clients drive an extra twenty minutes for the vet who explains things properly instead of the one who's fastest through a consult.
Now you're thinking about what comes next — retirement, a new chapter, or simply relief from the workload — and the offers on the table come from groups who talk in multiples, not medicine. You've heard the stories: standards slipping after acquisition, good nurses leaving within the year, targets replacing clinical judgement. You don't want your name attached to that.
It isn't hypothetical, either. We hear it constantly from vets who've left corporate practice — burnt out by targets, thin rotas and a working environment nobody designed for people to actually stay in. The associates and nurses you'd want on your own team are, more often than not, the ones already looking for the door marked "independent."
But you've also put twenty years and a second mortgage into this business and there's nothing unprofessional about wanting a fair return for it. Wanting a good price and wanting to do right by your patients aren't opposing positions — they never were. That's exactly why we buy practices ourselves, rather than simply advise on a sale to whoever's writing the biggest cheque: so the price you're offered and the promises you're made come with the same signature.
Consolidation doesn't arrive in every market at once. The UK is furthest along: six large groups now own over 60% of practices, up from 10% in 2013. Germany, France and Italy are earlier in the same cycle, which means owners there still hold more leverage — and more time to choose a buyer who'll actually keep faith with what they've built.
Sources: UK — Competition and Markets Authority, veterinary services market investigation, final report (24 March 2026) and Appendix C, financial and profitability analysis (October 2025); CVS Group plc FY2026 results (September 2026). Germany — German Association of Veterinary Practitioners (bpt), and France — figures reported to the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe General Assembly (November 2025). Italy — FNOVI, the national federation of Italian veterinary orders (December 2025), citing VMS and J.P. Morgan for the 2033 forecast. EBIT margins are the CMA's; EBITDA figures are as published by CVS Group and FNOVI. No regulator or official body publishes EBITDA multiples for practice sales; the only multiple on this page is one a listed buyer has stated publicly. What a practice is worth depends on the practice, the buyer and the terms. Not financial or investment advice.
Most buyers value what's easy to measure: revenue, EBITDA, footfall. We price practices — and run them afterwards — around what actually protects their worth and their standards, once you've left the room.
I spent twenty-five years in practice before I ever thought about what happens to one after it's sold. I know what it's like to sit in the staff room at seven in the evening doing paperwork nobody sees and I know what it feels like to watch a practice you've poured yourself into get reduced to a line in a spreadsheet.
I'm not going to tell you that wanting a good price is somehow unbecoming of the profession. You've earned it — through risk, through debt, through years of being the person everyone calls when something goes wrong out of hours. Nobody hands that back for free and nobody should ask you to.
What I will say is this: the practices that hold their value best and hold onto what made them worth building in the first place, are the ones where the new owner treats clinical standard as seriously as the balance sheet. That's how we run every practice we buy — because animal welfare and good business were never actually in competition.
That's the deal we want to make with you: a fair price today and a practice that still looks like yours on the day after completion and every day after that.
And for the people already doing the work when we buy: retention comes before any sales target — and it shows in what we actually offer them.
Every practice we assess gets a live benchmarking and valuation dashboard — not a one-off report that's out of date within a quarter. Explore a sample below.
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