Who owns Nutrican?
Nutrican is owned by VAFO (the Czech Republic).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: VAFO Group — Our Brands, VAFO Group a.s. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- VAFO Group a.s. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇿 Czech Republic, Chrášťany
- Origin
- 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
- Category
- Pet & animal care › Pet food › Cat food
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Nutrican
Nutrican is a complete dry food for cats whose recipes are designed by the same experts who formulate VAFO's Canvit supplements. It uses highly digestible chicken with no substitute proteins, cold-pressed herring oil, algae and brown seaweed, and chondroprotectives for joints. The reasoning the brand gives is that a complete dry food usually supplies the greater part of a cat's daily nutrient intake and therefore has to carry the whole diet on its own.
Ownership timeline of Nutrican
Where Nutrican sits in VAFO
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by VAFO
VAFO controls 12 brands on Brandtree, 12 of them in pet & animal care.
Also in pet & animal care
Other brands in cat food, and who owns them
The 19 brands in cat food on Brandtree belong to 11 owners. The largest is Partner in Pet Food, with 4; VAFO has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bozita | Partner in Pet Food | 🇭🇺 Hungary |
| Sheba | Mars | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Felix | Nestlé | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Catmor | RCL FOODS | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| Master Cat | Carozzi | 🇨🇱 Chile |
| Toptrees | China Pet Foods | 🇨🇳 China |
| Nutriplan | Dongwon Industries | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| CIAO | Inaba Foods | 🇯🇵 Japan |
About the owner: VAFO
VAFO is a privately held company headquartered in Chrášťany, Czech Republic, founded in 1994. Brandtree records 12 brands under its control.
VAFO Group is a European maker of premium pet food that began in 1994 as Vafo Praha and is now a second-generation Czech family business headquartered outside Prague. It runs nine dry food, wet food, snack and supplement factories with capacity above 220,200 tonnes a year, employs around 1,600 people and has factories and branches in Finland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Estonia, Poland, France and Austria, with sales above €700 million and brands sold in more than 90 countries. Its growth has come from buying established national brands — Prima Pet Premium in Finland, Pooch & Mutt in Britain, Berlin's Pets Deli — and continuing to sell them under their own names rather than folding them into Brit.
🇨🇿 Nutrican and other Czech brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 42 brands that began in the Czech Republic. 11 of them (26%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Nutrican is not one of them.
- Propesko — Partner in Pet Food 🇭🇺
- Allegro.cz — Allegro 🇵🇱
- Becherovka — Maspex 🇵🇱
- Bernard — Duvel Moortgat 🇧🇪
- FATRAFLOOR — AGROFERT 🇨🇿
- Holba — Kofola 🇨🇿
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Nutrican?
The parent company of Nutrican is VAFO, a privately held company headquartered in the Czech Republic.
Is Nutrican Czech?
Yes. Nutrican originated in the Czech Republic and its owner, VAFO, is also headquartered in the Czech Republic.
Is Nutrican still owned by VAFO?
Yes. As of 23 September 2026, Nutrican is still owned by VAFO. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] VAFO Group — Our Brands — VAFO Group a.s., Official document; retrieved 23 September 2026.
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