Who owns Ulcershield?
Ulcershield is owned by Animalcare (the United Kingdom), which has owned the brand since 3 January 2025.[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Animalcare Group plc — Final Results for the year ended 31 December 2025, 6 May 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Animalcare Group plc reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, York
- Origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Category
- Healthcare & pharma › Devices & animal health › Animal health
- Last verified
- · 3 sources
About Ulcershield
Ulcershield is Randlab's buffered omeprazole oral paste, 370 mg per gram, for treating and preventing gastric ulcers in horses, sold to vets in multi-dose syringes in packs of six or pails of fifty. Gastric-ulcer and joint products were Randlab's two largest categories when Animalcare bought the company on 3 January 2025. Ulcershield was among the products behind Randlab's growth in Australia and New Zealand in 2025, by the end of which it was the Animalcare group's fifth-largest brand.
Ownership timeline of Ulcershield
- 2025 – present Animalcare [1] reported
Where Ulcershield sits in Animalcare
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Animalcare
Animalcare controls 3 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; Animalcare has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| IDEXX Catalyst One | IDEXX | 🇺🇸 United States |
| BotVax B | Neogen | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Sasaeah | Virbac | 🇫🇷 France |
| 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: Animalcare
Animalcare is a privately held company headquartered in York, United Kingdom. Brandtree records 3 brands under its control.
Animalcare Group plc is a York-based veterinary pharmaceutical company that develops and sells about 165 animal-health brands for companion animals, horses and farm animals. It operates in seven European countries and in Australia, New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates, and exports to about 40 countries; the present group took shape in a 2017 reverse acquisition of Animalcare Group plc. Revenue for 2025 was £89.1 million, lifted by the Australian equine business Randlab, bought on 3 January 2025. A scheme under which CCP Paw 2 Limited, owned by funds managed or advised by Charterhouse Capital Partners, acquired the company for 336 pence a share took effect on 30 July 2026, and its shares left AIM the next day.
🇦🇺 Ulcershield and other Australian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 216 brands that began in Australia. 66 of them (31%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Ulcershield among them.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Ulcershield?
The parent company of Ulcershield is Animalcare, a privately held company headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Is Ulcershield Australian or British?
Ulcershield originated in Australia, but it is owned today by Animalcare, which is headquartered in the United Kingdom. So Ulcershield is an Australian-origin brand under British ownership.
Since when has Animalcare owned Ulcershield?
Animalcare has owned Ulcershield since 3 January 2025.
Is Ulcershield still owned by Animalcare?
Yes. As of 23 October 2026, Ulcershield is still owned by Animalcare. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (3) & 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] Animalcare Group plc — Final Results for the year ended 31 December 2025 — Animalcare Group plc, Stock exchange filing, published 6 May 2026; retrieved 23 October 2026.
- [2] Animalcare Group plc — Conditional acquisition of Randlab — Animalcare Group plc, Stock exchange filing, published 3 December 2024; retrieved 23 October 2026.
- [3] Randlab — Ulcershield® Oral Paste — Randlab Pty Ltd, Official document; retrieved 23 October 2026.
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