From the fact base

Who owns the beauty brands.

Ownership concentration in the encyclopedia: what share of brands belong to a group, which groups own the most, where the groups are based and how ownership events are distributed across the decades.

Computed on 2026-09-08 from Glowpedia's fact base for the 3,209 brands with a published article on this edition, and from Glowjakt's and Glowscout's price data for the market figures. The figures are recomputed daily.

Key figures

3,209

Brands in the data

51.5%

Linked to a group

1,652

50.5%

Owned by a group

1,619

Licensed to a group

Distributed by a group

48.5%

No group relation recorded

1,557

3.7%

Owned by the five largest groups (share of brands in the sample)

120

5.8%

Owned by the ten largest groups (share of brands in the sample)

187

Groups with the most brands

	Count	Share	Licensed
L'Oréal	38	1.2%	4
Unilever	24	0.8%	1
The Estée Lauder Companies	22	0.7%	1
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton	19	0.6%	1
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA	17	0.5%	0
Puig Brands, S.A.	16	0.5%	1
Coty Inc.	16	0.5%	12
Procter & Gamble	13	0.4%	1
Orkla ASA	11	0.3%	0
Amorepacific	11	0.3%	0
Revlon	10	0.3%	5
Kenvue Inc.	10	0.3%	0
Kao Corporation	10	0.3%	0
Shiseido Company, Limited	9	0.3%	2
Wella Company	9	0.3%	1
American International Industries	8	0.3%	0
Beiersdorf AG	8	0.3%	0
GIVET SRL	7	0.2%	0
Edgewell Personal Care	7	0.2%	0
Pierre Fabre	6	0.2%	0

Where the groups are based (share of group-owned brands)

	Count	Share
United States	108	6.7%
France	69	4.3%
United Kingdom	40	2.5%
Germany	34	2.1%
Italy	34	2.1%
Japan	25	1.5%
Spain	25	1.5%
South Korea	18	1.1%
Norway	15	0.9%
Switzerland	13	0.8%
Poland	8	0.5%
United Arab Emirates	7	0.4%

Ownership events by decade

	Count	Share
The 2020s	457	28.5%
The 2010s	534	33.4%
The 2000s	256	16%
The 1990s	166	10.4%
The 1980s	75	4.7%
The 1970s	44	2.8%
The 1960s	28	1.8%
The 1950s	13	0.8%

Acquisitions & ownership Houses