Band-Aid is owned by Kenvue (the United States, NYSE: KVUE), which was separated from Johnson & Johnson on 23 August 2023.[1][2] Before Kenvue, Band-Aid was owned by Johnson & Johnson from 1920 to 2023.[2]
Band-Aid adhesive bandages were invented in 1920 by Earle Dickson, a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife cut herself often enough while cooking that he prepared dressings in advance. The name is used generically in the United States, and the brand moved to Kenvue in the 2023 separation.
Kenvue is a publicly listed company headquartered in Summit, New Jersey, United States, founded in 2023. Brandtree records 13 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: KVUE.
Kenvue is the consumer health business separated from Johnson & Johnson, listed in May 2023 and fully split off that August. It holds the self-care, skin health and essential health brands that Johnson & Johnson had built up over a century. Kimberly-Clark agreed to acquire Kenvue in November 2025.
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; Band-Aid is not one of them.
Kimberly-Clark agreed to acquire Kenvue for $3.50 in cash plus 0.14625 Kimberly-Clark shares for each Kenvue share, which would combine Huggies and Kleenex with Tylenol, Listerine and Neutrogena. Kimberly-Clark expects to issue about 280 million shares and pay about $6.7 billion in cash, leaving its existing shareholders with about 54 per cent of the combined company.
Johnson & Johnson separated its consumer health business as Kenvue, which listed in May 2023 and was fully split off through an exchange offer completed on 23 August 2023. Tylenol, Band-Aid, Listerine, Neutrogena and Johnson's Baby all moved to the new company.
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