The story
The Company was founded in 1997 by way of a management buy-out from Lloyds Chemists. It was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2000. In 2007 it bought VetXX, a Danish veterinary products business, for £62 million. In 2010 it purchased Florida-based DermaPet for US$64 million and Sussex-based Genitrix for £5 million.
It sold its veterinary services business to US-firm, Patterson Companies, for £87.5m in July 2013 in order to focus on its higher margin manufacturing business.
In June 2023, the private equity organisation, EQT AB, made an agreed takeover offer for the company which valued the company at £4.5 billion. In December 2023, it was confirmed that all the necessary antitrust and regulatory approvals had been obtained and that the transaction would complete on 16 January 2024.
In June 2026, the company moved its global headquarters to Boston, Massachusetts.
From Wikipedia’s article on Dechra Pharmaceuticals, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5