Who owns Anessa?
Anessa is owned by Shiseido (Japan, TSE: 4911).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Shiseido Company, Limited Integrated Report 2025, 31 March 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Shiseido Company, Limited reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇯🇵 Japan, Tokyo
- Origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Founded
- 1992
- Category
- Personal care & beauty › Skin care › Sun care
- Parent ticker
- TSE: 4911
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Anessa
Anessa is the largest sun care brand in Japan and is sold across East and Southeast Asia, built on high-protection formulations that hold up in humidity and water. Japanese sunscreen formulation is generally more advanced than Western equivalents because of different regulatory rules.
Ownership timeline of Anessa
Where Anessa sits in Shiseido
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Shiseido
Shiseido controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 6 of them in personal care & beauty.
Also in personal care & beauty
- Clé de Peau Beauté (1982)
- Drunk Elephant (2012)
- NARS (1994)
- Senka (2011)
- Shiseido (1897)
Other brands in sun care, and who owns them
The 8 brands in sun care on Brandtree belong to 6 owners. The largest is Cantabria Labs, with 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Aktuva | Cantabria Labs | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| Banana Boat | Edgewell | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Coppertone | Beiersdorf | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| La Shield | Glenmark | 🇮🇳 India |
| Skin Aqua | Rohto Pharmaceutical | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Heliocare | Cantabria Labs | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| Hawaiian Tropic | Edgewell | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Shiseido
Shiseido is a publicly listed company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1872. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as TSE: 4911.
Shiseido was founded in Tokyo in 1872 as the first Western-style pharmacy in Japan and moved into cosmetics in 1897 with a skin lotion. It is the oldest cosmetics company in the world still operating and the largest in Japan, with a portfolio spanning mass, prestige and dermatological skin care.
🇯🇵 Anessa and other Japanese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 448 brands that began in Japan. 22 of them (5%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Anessa is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Anessa?
The parent company of Anessa is Shiseido, a publicly listed company headquartered in Japan.
Is Anessa Japanese?
Yes. Anessa originated in Japan in 1992 and its owner, Shiseido, is also headquartered in Japan.
Is Anessa still owned by Shiseido?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Anessa is still owned by Shiseido. 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] Shiseido Company, Limited Integrated Report 2025 — Shiseido Company, Limited, Annual report, published 31 March 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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