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Vets4Pets Ltd is a group of 85 joint venture partnerships that span may parts of England, Wales, Scotland, northern Ireland and Guernsey. The rapid growth of Vets4Pets has is due to a commitment to great pet care with professional practices with modern equipment and attractive partnership agreements that often give vets the best opportunity to own a practice of their own.

History
Founded in 2001 by Peter Watson, based on his experience in the optic market at Specsavers and Vision Express. He took this successful model and applied it to the pet care market with strong results.

Business structure
The practices' are set up as joint venture partnerships (owned 50:50 by the Veterinary/Owner and by Vets4pets Group Ltd). Vets4Pets will help the partner select the best property, commonly in a large town or city on a main road with parking. A Practice will commonly be build as brand new purpose-designed practice, and be equipped to meet high specific requirements and to achieve RCVS tier II standards.

All the practices are supported by two Support centres. One in Guernsey (Finance, Group Marketing)and one in Nottingham(HR,Purchasing and Partnership Development):