Who owns Bobbi Brown?
Bobbi Brown is owned by Estée Lauder (the United States, NYSE: EL), which has owned the brand since 1995.[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
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, New York
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 1991
- Category
- Personal care & beauty › Cosmetics & fragrance › Makeup
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: EL
- Trademark registrant
- Bobbi Brown Professional Cosmetics, Inc. (USPTO)
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Bobbi Brown
Bobbi Brown Cosmetics began in 1991 with ten natural-toned lipsticks a makeup artist developed because the shades she wanted did not exist commercially, sold from a single counter at Bergdorf Goodman. Estée Lauder acquired it in 1995, and the founder departed in 2016 to build another brand.
What Estée Lauder's annual report says about Bobbi Brown
Sentences about Bobbi Brown from Estée Lauder's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Acquired in 1995, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics is a global prestige beauty brand known for its high quality and undertone-correct makeup and skin care products that celebrate individual beauty and confidence.
How often Estée Lauder names Bobbi Brown 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 less often than it was three years earlier.
Trademark record for Bobbi Brown
The USPTO record for the Bobbi Brown mark lists Bobbi Brown Professional Cosmetics, Inc. as the owner of record (serial number 76025973). A trademark is often held by a group company rather than the listed parent, so the registrant's name can differ from the owner named above.[2]
Ownership timeline of Bobbi Brown
- 1995 – present Estée Lauder [1] verified
Where Bobbi Brown 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
- AERIN (2012)
- Aveda (1978)
- 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 makeup, and who owns them
The 43 brands in makeup on Brandtree belong to 22 owners. The largest is L'Oréal, with 5; Estée Lauder has 3.
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 →
🇺🇸 Bobbi Brown 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; Bobbi Brown is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Bobbi Brown?
The parent company of Bobbi Brown is Estée Lauder, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Bobbi Brown American?
Yes. Bobbi Brown originated in the United States in 1991 and its owner, Estée Lauder, is also headquartered in the United States.
Since when has Estée Lauder owned Bobbi Brown?
Estée Lauder has owned Bobbi Brown since 1995.
Is Bobbi Brown still owned by Estée Lauder?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Bobbi Brown is still owned by Estée Lauder. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (2) & 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.
- [2] USPTO: BOBBI BROWN, serial 76025973 — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark registry; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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