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In 2017, Mars, Inc., paid $9.1 Billion to acquire VCA Animal Hospitals. In 2015, Mars expanded with the purchase of Blue Pearl Hospital. In 2007, Mars, Inc., the company known for Snickers candy bars and Pedigree dog food, acquired Banfield Pet Hospital. The company was named one of thirteen companies that would be hiring in 2009 despite the economic crisis. The $6.5 million Banfield Veterinary Clinical Center at Western University of Health Sciences opened in August 2008. In 2008, the company totaled 725 locations spread throughout the United States, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. īanfield sold off its Merlin Digital Technology division that developed imaging equipment in September 2008.

PetSmart divested the rest of its MMI stake in 2015. In September 2007, long-time chief executive officer (CEO) Scott Campbell sold his shares of the company to Mars, Incorporated, retired as CEO, and John Payne took over the position, while Campbell remained chairman of the company. In early 2007, PetSmart sold off part of its share of MMI, Banfield's parent company. Banfield also opened a third stand-alone hospital, located in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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That year the Banfield Charitable Trust was created to provide free care to economically disadvantaged pet owners. Petsmart with a Banfield location in Hillsboro, Oregonīy 2005, the company served 3.5 million animals annually at 450 clinics worldwide. The clinics also began working with Purdue University and the Centers for Disease Control to develop a system to use the data the clinics collect to monitor for possible bioterrorism attacks. In 2004, Banfield opened 80 more clinics and financed teaching hospitals affiliated with the veterinary medicine programs at Western University of Health Sciences and National Autonomous University of Mexico in California and Mexico City respectively. They employed more than 4,000 worldwide, of which 900 were veterinarians. At that time the company had become the largest privately owned veterinary practice in the United States. In October 2004, they began building a new $25 million building for their headquarters on the 5.5-acre (22,000 m 2) plot that would total 225,000 square feet (20,900 m 2). They also opened a clinic in England, their first international location, and operated 360 clinics in all. In January 2004, the company bought a property for $2.3 million from the Portland Public Schools for a new headquarters on NE 82nd Avenue. After a lawsuit by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, the name was changed to TruePaws in August 2001. That year MMI launched BluePaw Family Pet Insurance Company to sell health insurance for pets. The company grew to more than 250 clinics by 2001. In 2000, Banfield purchased PetSmart's other clinics named Petsmart Veterinary Services. PetSmart received rent and a share of the profits from the clinics, and owned part of MMI as part of the deal between the companies. By 1996 the private company had grown to in excess of 150 locations in 18 states with over 600,000 pets treated annually and 1,100 employees. (MMI) was created to own the clinic, and in 1994 the pet store chain PetSmart teamed up with MMI to open pet clinics in their stores initially called VetSmart. In 1987, Scott Campbell purchased the single veterinary hospital which had about $2 million in annual revenues. The name comes from the nearby Banfield Freeway. On April 2, 2014, Banfield Pet Hospital announced its headquarters would be relocating to Vancouver, Washington, from nearby Portland, Oregon.īanfield was founded in northeast Portland, Oregon, in 1955 by Warren J.

Banfield is the largest privately owned veterinary practice in the United States.

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Founded in 1955, the company operates many of its 1,000 plus clinics inside PetSmart stores. Part of the Mars, Incorporated family of companies, Banfield owns clinics in the United States, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. Banfield Pet Hospital is a privately owned company based in Vancouver, Washington, United States, that operates veterinary clinics.