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Veterinary Practice Consolidators — 2026 and 2027 Outlook

How will private equity-backed veterinary practice consolidators navigate 2026 and 2027? You can also read the 2024 and 2023 iteration of this outlook. As the operating environment is continuous, and change tends to be marginal, many of the themes I covered at the beginning of 2023 and 2024 still apply.

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How to hurt your business in a practice sale

A buyer reviews your due diligence materials including DVM pay, productivity, benefits, tenure, all of it for every DVM on your team. That buyer declines to submit a letter of intent. Six months later one of that buyer's recruiters calls your best-producing DVM.

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VetValue Launches VetValue Connect to Support Veterinary Practice Owners

VetValue is pleased to announce the launch of VetValue Connect, the industry's first cloud-based, practice sale process management platform and marketplace. The VetValue team has successfully closed over $1.3 billion in veterinary practice sales since 2015.

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Planning for Your Veterinary Practice Sale — VETgirl Interviews Brian Cavanaugh

Brian Cavanaugh, co-founder of VetValue, speaks with Justine Lee, founder of VETgirl, about long-term planning for a successful veterinary practice ownership transition, the evolution of the marketplace, current market conditions, and what the future likely holds.

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VetValue Launches the Practice Owner EcoSystem

VetValue is pleased to announce the launch of its Practice Owner EcoSystem, a first-of-its-kind, cloud-based collaboration platform purpose-built to support independent veterinary practice owners in managing and building their practices.

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Veterinary Consolidators — 2024 Outlook and Discussion

How will private equity-backed veterinary practice consolidators navigate 2024?

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Veterinary Practice Consolidators — 2023 Outlook

How will private equity backed veterinary hospital consolidators navigate 2023? Since I wrote on the topic last, we…

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Buying a Veterinary Practice — Where to Look

Corporate consolidators possess greater willingness and ability to purchase any existing practice where two or more DVMs will…

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Why You Can't Buy Some Veterinary Practices

For any veterinary practice buyer purchasing an existing practice, a practice with multiple doctors who will continue after…

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Five Tips and Tools for Recruiting Veterinarians

Today's hiring scene in the veterinary profession is competitive, with staffing shortages being commonplace at many veterinary practices.…

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Associate Buy-ins — An Unfair Fight

Younger veterinarians are facing a vastly different world than earlier generations of doctors. Historically, animal hospitals were small…

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How to Grow Your Veterinary Practice

Various ways veterinary practice owners can grow their businesses from the perspective of a financial advisor.

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The Do's and Don'ts of Selling Your Veterinary Practice

Corporate interest in buying existing veterinary practices has recently…

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How Do I Sell a Single Veterinarian Practice?

Solo doctor veterinary hospitals often conjure up romantic imagery of a small town, self-reliant sole practitioner. In our…

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Overview of Veterinary Practice Consolidators

The continuing vigorous pace of "corporate" purchases of veterinary practices makes understanding the players…

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Normalized EBITDA in Veterinary Practice Valuation

There are two main inputs into a Buyer Valuation: 1) the Veterinary…

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Why is Private Equity Acquiring Veterinary Practices?

Today in the U.S. there are thousands of Private Equity (PE) firms of…

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Carson Taylor Appears on "Veterinarian Success" Podcast

VetValue's very own Carson Taylor appeared on the popular "Veterinarian Success"…

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