Best Friends Pet Care Acquires Paws Pet Resort

Turning Rock Partners Invests in Best Friends Pet Care

December 19, 2023

Veterinary

Turning Rock Partners, a New York-based private investment firm, provided a growth investment in Best Friends Pet Care, an employee-owned premium pet services operator headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut. The capital will support Best Friends' national footprint expansion and an aggressive acquisitive growth strategy; existing shareholders also participated in the financing.

Destination Pet Acquires Pet Palace Pet Boarding Resort

June 21, 2023

Veterinary

Destination Pet has acquired Pet Palace Pet Boarding Resort, a luxury pet care operator with 11 locations across Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina and Pennsylvania and more than 500 employees. The acquisition expands Destination Pet’s national pet resort and clinic network, adds a luxury resort brand, and enables wider rollout of Destination Pet’s connected care model and Yourgi app; Pet Palace founder Brian Hudock will remain as a strategic advisor.

Outward Hound Acquires Best Friends by Sheri

April 6, 2021

Consumer Products

Outward Hound, a Prospect Hill Growth Partners portfolio company, has acquired Best Friends by Sheri to expand its product portfolio into the growing pet bed category. The acquisition adds the well-known Original Calming Donut Pet Bed and other bestselling pet-bed SKUs to Outward Hound’s brand family and broadens its consumer product offering.

Rarebreed Veterinary Partners Acquires Vet's Best Friend Group

June 30, 2022

Veterinary

Rarebreed Veterinary Partners, a Portland, Maine–based operator of veterinary practices (majority backed by Revelstoke Capital Partners), has acquired Massachusetts-based Vet's Best Friend, adding 47 locations to Rarebreed's existing 71 practices. The transaction creates one of the largest, well-capitalized veterinary practice platforms in the U.S. and is positioned to accelerate expansion of general practice, urgent care, and specialty emergency hospitals.

Pet Resort Hospitality Group (PRHG) Acquires Five Regional Pet Resort Brands

January 31, 2024

Veterinary

Pet Resort Hospitality Group (a platform formed by Queens Court Capital and Trivest Partners) has acquired five pet resort brands — Meadowlake Pet Resort and Training Center, Olde Towne Pet Resorts, Playtime Pet Resort, Paws ‘n’ Rec, and Williamsburg Pet Hotel & Suites — expanding the platform to 17 locations. The transactions bring experienced founder- and family-owned operators into the PRHG portfolio as part of a buy-and-build strategy to scale daycare, boarding, grooming, and training services across the U.S.

WagWay Group Adds Pawville to Its Network

June 25, 2024

Veterinary

WagWay Group, a platform company of Access Holdings, announced a partnership to bring Pawville — a Southeast U.S. provider of boarding, daycare, grooming, training and veterinary centers — into the WagWay network. The deal expands WagWay's footprint into suburban Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic markets and adds veterinary medical center capabilities to the platform.