Vetlab Supplies Ltd

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The Vetlab Supplies Story

With an unparalleled reputation for service, Vetlab Supplies is the UK's leading independent veterinary supply business serving diagnostic, teaching and research laboratories in associated disciplines as well as schools, colleges, universities and commercial facilities.

Vetlab's outstanding record in serving veterinary labs and practices begins in 1967 with the return of Vetlab CEO, Mike Fleming, from his Adelaide appointment with Australia's CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation).

As a researcher for The Wellcome Veterinary Investigation Laboratory at Beckenham, and later in their Veterinary Research Station at Frant, Mike published a number of advanced veterinary papers on the growing problem of antibacterial resistance that now threatens both animals and humans.

In 1977 Mike was invited to set up a new commercial veterinary diagnostic lab called Vetdiagnostics from where he published further scientific papers including his work on contagious equine metritis and investigations into the incidence of campylobacter infection in dogs.

Three Decades of Progress and Innovation

From 1984 Mike began making his vet lab experience available to the wider veterinary world founding the independent veterinary testing laboratory, Vetlab Services, together with a sister company, Vetlab Supplies, specialising in veterinary laboratory equipment, diagnostics and consumables.

Both ventures proved so commercially and scientifically successful that, in 1995, when Mike purchased the ailing Greendale Laboratories from the official receiver, his business and technical expertise ensured not only the resurrection of the company, but also the continued employment of every one of Greendale's staff.

With Greendale Laboratories and Vetlab Services on a sound commercial and technical footing, Mike withdrew from his involvement in day to day veterinary testing in 1997 to concentrate on serving practices and laboratories with quality laboratory equipment, reliable diagnostic test kits and affordable consumables.