Absolut is owned by Pernod Ricard (France, EPA: RI), which acquired the brand on 23 July 2008 for €5.63 billion.[1][2] Absolut was founded in 1879 in Åhus and was independent until 2008.
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Pernod Ricard Universal Registration Document 2024/25, Pernod Ricard SA, 17 September 2025. Last checked .
Absolut vodka has been distilled in Åhus, southern Sweden since 1879, using winter wheat grown nearby and a continuous distillation method developed by Lars Olsson Smith. Its advertising campaign, running from 1980 and built entirely on the bottle silhouette, produced more than a thousand distinct executions. Pernod Ricard bought it in 2008 for €5.6 billion.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Pernod Ricard controls 11 brands on Brandtree, 11 of them in beverages.
The 25 brands in vodka on Brandtree belong to 19 owners. The largest is Diageo, with 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Cîroc | Diageo | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Hangar 1 | Becle | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
| Burnett's Vodka | Heaven Hill | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Hõbe | Liviko | 🇪🇪 Estonia |
| Magic Moments | Radico Khaitan | 🇮🇳 India |
| Longshore Vodka | Adnams | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| OMU | Alexandrion Group | 🇷🇴 Romania |
| Moskovskaya Vodka | Amber Beverage Group | 🇱🇺 Luxembourg |
Pernod Ricard is a publicly listed company headquartered in Paris, France, founded in 1975. Brandtree records 11 brands under its control, and it is listed as EPA: RI.
Pernod Ricard was created in 1975 by the merger of two French anise-spirit rivals and grew by acquisition into the second-largest spirits group in the world, notably through the break-ups of Seagram in 2001 and Allied Domecq in 2005.
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Brandtree records a controlling owner for 117 brands that began in Sweden. 53 of them (45%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Absolut among them.
Pernod Ricard bought V&S Group, the Swedish state-owned owner of Absolut, for €5.626 billion in a privatisation auction. Absolut immediately became one of the group's largest brands and remains among the best-selling vodkas in the world.
The parent company of Absolut is Pernod Ricard, a publicly listed company headquartered in France.
Absolut originated in Sweden in 1879, but it is owned today by Pernod Ricard, which is headquartered in France. So Absolut is a Swedish-origin brand under French ownership.
Pernod Ricard completed its acquisition of Absolut on 23 July 2008, after announcing the deal on 31 March 2008. The deal was valued at €5.63 billion (enterprise value).
Absolut was an independent company from its founding in 1879 in Åhus until Pernod Ricard acquired it in 2008.
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Absolut is still owned by Pernod Ricard. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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