Who owns Bang & Olufsen?
Bang & Olufsen is owned by Bang & Olufsen A/S (Denmark, CPH: BO).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Bang & Olufsen A/S — Annual Report 2025/26, 2 July 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Bang & Olufsen A/S reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇩🇰 Denmark, Struer
- Origin
- 🇩🇰 Denmark, Struer
- Founded
- 1925 by Peter Bang, Svend Olufsen
- Category
- Home, garden & DIY › Consumer electronics › TVs & audio
- Parent ticker
- CPH: BO
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Bang & Olufsen
Bang & Olufsen is the luxury audio brand founded in Struer, Denmark in 1925 by Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen, and its hundredth year fell in the 2025/26 financial year. Its products carry Beo names — Beolab loudspeakers, Beosound systems, Beoplay headphones, Beovision televisions — and the Beosound Premiere soundbar launched in December 2025 alongside anniversary editions of the Beolab 90. The name is also licensed to other manufacturers, including TCL televisions and car makers, and until the agreement expired in June 2024 to HP computers.
Ownership timeline of Bang & Olufsen
- Current owner Bang & Olufsen [1] reported
Where Bang & Olufsen sits in Bang & Olufsen
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands in tvs & audio, and who owns them
The 35 brands in tvs & audio on Brandtree belong to 11 owners. The largest is HARMAN, with 10.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| AKG | HARMAN | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Sonos | Sonos | 🇺🇸 United States |
| BlueParrott | GN Group | 🇩🇰 Denmark |
| JVC | JVCKENWOOD | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| ASTRO Gaming | Logitech | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| PDP | Turtle Beach | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Fusion | Garmin | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Klipsch | Gentex | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Bang & Olufsen
Bang & Olufsen is a publicly listed company headquartered in Struer, Denmark, founded in 1925. Brandtree records 1 brand under its control, and it is listed as CPH: BO.
Bang & Olufsen is a Danish luxury audio company founded in Struer in 1925 by Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen and listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen. Its centenary fell in the 2025/26 financial year, which it marked with an exhibition called 100 Years. And Counting. and with Atelier Anniversary editions of the Beolab 90 speaker. Alongside selling its own speakers, televisions and headphones it licenses its name to other manufacturers: licensing accounted for about 79 per cent of the revenue of its Brand Partnering segment, where a long-running agreement with HP expired in June 2024 and a newer arrangement with TCL is being scaled up.
Bang & Olufsen: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇩🇰 Bang & Olufsen and other Danish brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 100 brands that began in Denmark. 25 of them (25%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Bang & Olufsen is not one of them.
- BR — Salling Group 🇩🇰
- BlueParrott — GN Group 🇩🇰
- Davidsen — Kesko 🇫🇮
- HAY — MillerKnoll 🇺🇸
- Royal Copenhagen — Fiskars Group 🇫🇮
- 3-Stjernet — Atria 🇫🇮
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Bang & Olufsen?
The parent company of Bang & Olufsen is Bang & Olufsen A/S, a publicly listed company headquartered in Denmark.
Is Bang & Olufsen Danish?
Yes. Bang & Olufsen originated in Denmark in 1925 and its owner, Bang & Olufsen A/S, is also headquartered in Denmark.
Is Bang & Olufsen still owned by Bang & Olufsen A/S?
Yes. As of 25 September 2026, Bang & Olufsen is still owned by Bang & Olufsen A/S. 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] Bang & Olufsen A/S — Annual Report 2025/26 — Bang & Olufsen A/S, Annual report, published 2 July 2026; retrieved 25 September 2026.
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