Who owns Sasaeah?
Sasaeah is owned by Virbac (France, EPA: VIRP), which has owned the brand since 1 April 2024.[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Virbac — Annual Report 2025, Virbac SA, 27 April 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Virbac SA reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇫🇷 France, Carros
- Origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan, Tokyo
- Category
- Healthcare & pharma › Devices & animal health › Animal health
- Parent ticker
- EPA: VIRP
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Sasaeah
Sasaeah is a Japanese animal-health group that Virbac completed buying on 1 April 2024. It is made up of Sasaeah Holdings, Sasaeah Pharmaceutical, Fujita Pharmaceutical and Kyoto Biken Laboratories in Japan, all wholly owned, and Kyoto Biken Hanoi Laboratories in Vietnam, in which Virbac holds 85%. Most of its business is with farm animals: in 2025 Virbac booked €58.1 million of Sasaeah farm-animal sales and €13.4 million of companion-animal sales.
Ownership timeline of Sasaeah
Where Sasaeah sits in Virbac
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Virbac
Virbac controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in healthcare & pharma.
Also in healthcare & pharma
Other brands in animal health, and who owns them
The 16 brands in animal health on Brandtree belong to 4 owners. The largest is Neogen, with 5; Virbac has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| IDEXX Catalyst One | IDEXX | 🇺🇸 United States |
| BotVax B | Neogen | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Daxocox | Animalcare | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| IDEXX inVue Dx | IDEXX | 🇺🇸 United States |
| IDEXX ProCyte One | IDEXX | 🇺🇸 United States |
| IDEXX SediVue Dx | IDEXX | 🇺🇸 United States |
| IDEXX SNAP | IDEXX | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Ideal | Neogen | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Virbac
Virbac is a publicly listed company headquartered in Carros, France, founded in 1968. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as EPA: VIRP.
Virbac SA is a French animal-health company, established in 1968 in Carros by the veterinarian Pierre-Richard Dick, that makes and sells medicines, vaccines, health products and pet food for companion and farm animals. Its shares are listed in compartment A of Euronext Paris, and at the end of 2025 the Dick family group held 50.09% of the capital and 66.21% of the voting rights. Revenue in 2025 was €1,465 million, 869 million of it from companion animals. It has about 6,400 employees, sales subsidiaries in 36 countries and production sites in 12, and it bought Japan's Sasaeah group in April 2024, Türkiye's Mopsan in December 2024 and the rights to Thyronorm in December 2025.
🇯🇵 Sasaeah and other Japanese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 449 brands that began in Japan. 23 of them (5%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Sasaeah among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Sasaeah?
The parent company of Sasaeah is Virbac, a publicly listed company headquartered in France.
Is Sasaeah Japanese or French?
Sasaeah originated in Japan, but it is owned today by Virbac, which is headquartered in France. So Sasaeah is a Japanese-origin brand under French ownership.
Since when has Virbac owned Sasaeah?
Virbac has owned Sasaeah since 1 April 2024.
Is Sasaeah still owned by Virbac?
Yes. As of 23 October 2026, Sasaeah is still owned by Virbac. 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] Virbac — Annual Report 2025 — Virbac SA, Annual report, published 27 April 2026; retrieved 23 October 2026.
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