Who owns Vetscan?
Vetscan is owned by Zoetis (the United States, NYSE: ZTS), which has owned the brand since 2018.[1]
Evidence: Zoetis Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-12, SEC EDGAR, 12 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Zoetis Inc. verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Parsippany, New Jersey
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Category
- Pet & animal care › Pet supplies & services › Veterinary services
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: ZTS
- Trademark registrant
- ZOETIS SERVICES LLC (USPTO)
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Vetscan
Vetscan is Zoetis's range of point-of-care diagnostic instruments and consumables for veterinary clinics, acquired with Abaxis in 2018. The benchtop chemistry analyser runs chemistry, electrolyte, acid-base and immunoassay tests for cats and dogs. The company added artificial-intelligence dermatology and equine faecal analysis to its Vetscan Imagyst platform in 2023, urine sediment analysis in 2024, and launched the Vetscan OptiCell haematology analyser the same year.
What Zoetis's annual report says about Vetscan
Sentences about Vetscan from Zoetis's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Zoetis enhanced the portfolio of its diagnostic products with the acquisition in 2018 of Abaxis, Inc. (Abaxis), a leading provider of veterinary point-of-care diagnostic instruments, including the Vetscan portfolio of benchtop and handheld diagnostic instruments and consumables.
In 2023, the company enhanced its Vetscan Imagyst platform by adding artificial intelligence (AI) dermatology and AI fecal for equine, which uses a combination of image recognition technology, algorithms and cloud-based AI to deliver rapid testing results to veterinary clinics.
In 2024, the company added AI urine sediment analysis to the Vetscan Imagyst platform and launched Vetscan OptiCell TM a cartridge-based, AI powered hematology analyzer that provides advanced Complete Blood Count (CBC) analysis.
How often Zoetis names Vetscan in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Trademark record for Vetscan
The USPTO record for the Vetscan mark lists ZOETIS SERVICES LLC as the owner of record (serial number 74472115). That name matches the owner named above.[2]
Ownership timeline of Vetscan
Where Vetscan sits in Zoetis
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Zoetis
Zoetis controls 17 brands on Brandtree, 17 of them in pet & animal care.
Also in pet & animal care
Other brands in veterinary services, and who owns them
Zoetis has more brands in veterinary services on Brandtree than any other owner: 17 of 45.
About the owner: Zoetis
Zoetis is a publicly listed company headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, United States, founded in 2012. Brandtree records 17 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: ZTS.
Zoetis is the largest animal health company in the world by revenue, selling medicines, vaccines and diagnostics for pets and livestock. It was incorporated in Delaware in July 2012 out of what had been a business unit of Pfizer, and it markets directly in about 45 countries while selling in more than 100. Companion animals now dominate: its two biggest lines, the Simparica parasiticides and the Apoquel dermatology range, were 16 and 12 per cent of 2025 revenue, and it left the medicated feed additive business entirely in 2024.
🇺🇸 Vetscan and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Vetscan is not one of them.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Vetscan?
The parent company of Vetscan is Zoetis, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Vetscan American?
Yes. Vetscan originated in the United States and its owner, Zoetis, is also headquartered in the United States.
Since when has Zoetis owned Vetscan?
Zoetis has owned Vetscan since 2018.
Is Vetscan still owned by Zoetis?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Vetscan is still owned by Zoetis. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (2) & 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] Zoetis Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-12 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 12 February 2026; retrieved 25 September 2026.
- [2] USPTO: VETSCAN, serial 74472115 — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark registry; retrieved 27 September 2026.
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