Who owns AERIN?
AERIN is owned by Estée Lauder (the United States, NYSE: EL).[1]
Evidence: The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-08-19, SEC EDGAR, 19 August 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, New York
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 2012
- Category
- Personal care & beauty › Cosmetics & fragrance › Fragrance
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: EL
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About AERIN
AERIN was launched in 2012 by Aerin Lauder, granddaughter of the founder, selling fragrance, beauty and home goods. It is one of the few brands in the group created rather than acquired in recent decades. Its range extends beyond cosmetics into candles, tabletop and furnishings, which is unusual for a prestige beauty brand and gives it a lifestyle positioning.
What Estée Lauder's annual report says about AERIN
Sentences about AERIN from Estée Lauder's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Acquired in 2010, Smashbox Cosmetics is a Los Angeles-based, photo studio-inspired makeup brand with high performance products created for our consumers' everyday life in the spotlight. 6 Table of Contents Launched in 2012, AERIN is a global luxury lifestyle brand inspired by the signature style of its founder, Aerin Lauder.
We are the exclusive worldwide licensee for fragrances, cosmetics, skin care and/or related products for AERIN, Balmain, and Dr. Andrew Weil.
How often Estée Lauder names AERIN 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.
Ownership timeline of AERIN
- Current owner Estée Lauder [1] verified
Where AERIN sits in Estée Lauder
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Estée Lauder
Estée Lauder controls 13 brands on Brandtree, 13 of them in personal care & beauty.
Also in personal care & beauty
- Aveda (1978)
- Bobbi Brown (1991)
- Clinique (1968)
- Darphin (1958)
- Estée Lauder (1946)
- Jo Malone London (1990)
- La Mer (1965)
- M·A·C (1984)
- Origins (1990)
- The Ordinary (2016)
- Tom Ford Beauty (2006)
- Too Faced (1998)
Other brands in fragrance, and who owns them
The 20 brands in fragrance on Brandtree belong to 10 owners. The largest is Puig, with 5; Estée Lauder has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Byredo | Puig | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| O Boticário | Grupo Boticário | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Eskulin | Kino Indonesia | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| Creed | L'Oréal | 🇫🇷 France |
| Brut | Unilever | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Jafra | Betterware (BeFra) | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
| Chanel No. 5 | Chanel | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Twelve Plus | Osotspa | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
About the owner: Estée Lauder
Estée Lauder is a publicly listed company headquartered in New York, United States, founded in 1946. Brandtree records 13 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: EL.
The Estée Lauder Companies was founded in New York in 1946 by Estée and Joseph Lauder. It sells prestige beauty through department stores, travel retail and specialty channels, and the Lauder family retains voting control.
Estée Lauder: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 AERIN and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; AERIN is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of AERIN?
The parent company of AERIN is Estée Lauder, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is AERIN American?
Yes. AERIN originated in the United States in 2012 and its owner, Estée Lauder, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is AERIN still owned by Estée Lauder?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, AERIN is still owned by Estée Lauder. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & 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] The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-08-19 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 19 August 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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