Mars is a company known for the confectionery items that it manufactures, such as Mars bars, Milky Way bars, M&M’s, Skittles, Snickers, Twix, and Bounty chocolate bars.
It also produces non-confectionery snacks, such as Ben’s Original, and pasta sauce brand Dolmio, as well as pet foods, such as Pedigree, Whiskas and Royal Canin brands.
Mars, Incorporated is an American multinational manufacturer of confectionery, pet food, and other food products and a provider of animal care services, with US$45 billion in annual sales in 2022; that year Forbes ranked the company as the fourth-largest privately held company in the United States.
In 2018, Mars Petcare bought out the Linnaeus Group of Veterinary practices which now puts it as one of the largest group of corporate owned vet practices in the UK.
Which vet practices does Mars Petcare now own?
We have all the top specialist practices in the UK now owned and managed by the same company that brought us Mars, Snickers, Whiskas, Royal Canin and Pedigree.
Which practices are they?
608 Vet Practice
AAS Veterinary Services
Abbey House Veterinary Hospital
Alder Veterinary Practice
Anderson Moores Vet Specialists
Animal Ark Veterinary Centre
Avonvale Veterinary Centres
Blackrock Veterinary Clinic
Blacks Vets
Blythwood Vets
Boundary Veterinary Centre
Brentknoll Veterinary Centre
Broadway Veterinary Surgery
Calder Vets
Cathcart and Winn Veterinary Clinic & Hospital
Cave Veterinary Specialists
Chapel House Veterinary Practice
Cherrydown Vets
Chess Veterinary Clinic
Cinque Ports Vets
City Vets
Crofts Veterinary Practice
Cromwell Veterinary Group
Davies Veterinary Specialists
Dick White Referrals
Donnachie & Townley Veterinary Centre
Eastcott Veterinary Clinic and Hospital
Eastcott Veterinary Referrals
End Cottage Veterinary Clinic
Eye Vet
Folly Gardens Veterinary Clinic
Forest Vets
Garston Veterinary Group
Gower Veterinary Surgery
Greenside Veterinary Practice
Hawick Veterinary Practice
Kentdale Referrals
Leadon Vale Veterinary Centre
Lida Vets
London Vet Specialists
Maven Veterinary Care
Moor Cottage Veterinary Practice
My Pets Vets
MyVet
North Downs Specialist Referrals
Northwest Veterinary Specialists
Norwood Veterinary Group
Oak Barn Veterinary Centre
Palmerston Veterinary Group
Paragon Veterinary Referrals
Park Vet Group
Parkhill Vets
Peak Veterinary Practice
Pets ‘n’ Vets
Primrose Hill Veterinary Hospital
Riversmeet Vets
Sandhole Veterinary Centre
Shires Vets
Southfields Veterinary Specialists
Spinney Vets
St Anne’s Veterinary Group
St. Clair Veterinary Group
The Barn Animal Practice
The Gables Veterinary Centre
Vet4Life
Veterinary Specialists Scotland
Veterinary Vision
Village Vet
Warren House Veterinary Group
Wear Referrals
West Midlands Referrals
Wicstun Veterinary Group
Wilbury Vets
Wildbore Vetstop
Willows Veterinary Centre and Referral Service
Woodward Veterinary Practice
In June 2024, they announced that they had invested nearly $138M/€126M in a 111,000-square-metre facility in the Tianjin plant, located 150 km from Beijing. It will supply Mars’ pet portfolio nationwide. to enhance domestic and global product demand.
This means that all the Royal Canin supplied to the UK will most likely be flown from China and that local intensive chinese factories that are known to have the worst welfare issues in the world, will be incorporated into these Royal Canin dog and cat food products.
Maybe the money spent helping Prof Alex German Royal Canin University of Liverpool lecturer undermine Prof Knight’s studies on vegan dog food diets as shown in this article; should have been better spent doing true research as shown by vet Dr Tona from the University of California speak about his research published in May 2024.
The truth about ‘RSPCA Assured’ farms
The footage obtained from these farms, including distressing images of decomposing pigs, dying chicks, and salmon with missing eyes, is simply indefensible
University of Liverpool Vegan Dog Food Study
Prof Alex German holds the position of Royal Canin Professor of Small Animal Medicine at the University of Liverpool
Using microbial protein for the very first time in dog treats!
This first-of-its-kind protein is derived from bacteria that have been consumed by humans for centuries in foods such as kimchi, kefir, and sauerkraut
The longest, most comprehensive peer-reviewed study so far!
Domestic dogs maintain positive clinical, nutritional, and haematological health outcomes when fed a commercial plant-based diet for a year. Peer reviewed and published in PLOS ONE
Reasons Why Dog Owners Stop Feeding Raw Meat-Based Diets
The latest paper from April 2024 makes an astounding 85 papers against the use of raw feeding in our dogs
UK’s first meat cultivated cat food to launch!
The world’s first cans of cat food made with cultivated chicken to be sold in 2024 at Pets At Home!
Plant Ingredients in Dog Food
An enormously positive article about the use of plant-based proteins in pet food written by PhD Veterinary Scientist Jelena Suran in February 2024
Hills Pet Food Vets Sued
Colgate-Palmolive’s Hill’s pet food unit has been hit with a proposed class-action accusing it of conspiring with vets to disparage grain free and plant-based diets
Purina HA tins OR Give A Dog A Bean?
Let’s look at the ingredients in Purina HA tins with hydrolysed soya and pure sugars
History Of Vegan Dog Food
Vegan dog food in the UK has a fascinating history and such an exciting future!
HOWND named to World’s Most Ethical Businesses list
“Being named one of the Top 200 Ethical Companies with a rating of 98 out of 100 is a reflection of the heart and soul we pour into being ethical in our choices every day”
Will we see empty supermarket shelves of pet food in 2024?
As each country prepares to reach their zero carbon emissions agreement, we have meat-based pet food manufacturers panicking as Category 3 animal fat is also very valuable to the renewable diesel market
