VCA competitors, on the record

Who VCA names

In its own words

1. Banfield Pet Hospitals, National Veterinary Associates

   Word for word“In addition, some national companies in the pet care industry such as Banfield Pet Hospitals and National Veterinary Associates, are developing networks of animal hospitals in markets that include our animal hospitals.” 10-K for 2016

2. Canon, Philips, Siemens

   Word for word“Our primary competitors are companies that are much larger than us and have substantially greater capital, manufacturing, marketing and research and development resources than we do, including companies such as Siemens, Philips and Canon.” 10-K for 2016

3. IDEXX Laboratories

   Word for word“Our principal competitor in most geographic locations in the United States is IDEXX Laboratories.” 10-K for 2016

Who names VCA

Companies whose own annual reports name VCA as a competitor.

1. Idexx Laboratories names it as “VCA Inc.” · 2025

   Word for word“Our competitors in the veterinary diagnostic sector in the United States and abroad include companies that develop, manufacture, and sell veterinary diagnostic tests; commercial veterinary reference laboratories; certain large and well-funded animal health pharmaceutical companies; and corporate hospital chains that operate reference laboratories that serve both their hospitals and unaffiliated hospitals, such as VCA Inc., which is wholly-owned by Mars, Incorporated, another operator of corporate hospital chains that also sells veterinary point-of-care diagnostic instruments.” 10-K for 2025

Read from VCA’s annual reports (10-K for 2016, 10-K for 2015, 10-K for 2014) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2017-02-28. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.