Braun is owned by Procter & Gamble (the United States, NYSE: PG), which acquired the brand on 1 October 2005 from The Gillette Company, as part of a $57 billion deal that also included Gillette, Oral-B and Venus.[1][2] Before Procter & Gamble, Braun was owned by The Gillette Company to 2005.[2]
Evidence: The Procter & Gamble Company Form 10-K for fiscal 2026, note 15 - subsequent events, SEC EDGAR. Verified from filings; last checked .
Braun is a German appliance maker founded in Frankfurt in 1921, best known for electric shavers and for the industrial design work of Dieter Rams, whose products from the 1950s to the 1990s are held in major museum collections. Gillette acquired it in 1967 and it came to Procter & Gamble in 2005.
Sentences about Braun from Procter & Gamble's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Our appliances, such as electric shavers and intense pulse light devices, are sold primarily under the Braun brand.
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 USPTO record for the Braun mark lists BRAUN GMBH as the owner of record (serial number 85294880). 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.[3]
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Procter & Gamble controls 38 brands on Brandtree, 23 of them in personal care & beauty.
Procter & Gamble has more brands in men's grooming on Brandtree than any other owner: 2 of 15.
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| GATSBY | Mandom | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Alpecin | Dr. Wolff Group | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Cremo | Edgewell | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Gold | Hemas | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka |
| Duel | Lion Match Company | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| Harry's | Mammoth Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Philips OneBlade | Philips | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
Procter & Gamble is a publicly listed company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, founded in 1837. Brandtree records 38 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: PG.
Procter & Gamble was founded in Cincinnati in 1837 by a candle maker and a soap maker who had married sisters. It deliberately narrowed to around 65 brands in the mid-2010s, selling roughly a hundred others, and now reports through fabric and home care, baby and feminine care, beauty, health care and grooming.
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Brandtree records a controlling owner for 252 brands that began in Germany. 93 of them (37%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Braun among them.
Procter & Gamble acquired The Gillette Company in an all-stock deal, adding razors, Oral-B and Braun and making it the largest consumer goods company in the world at the time. Regulators required divestitures in electric toothbrushes and deodorants.
The parent company of Braun is Procter & Gamble, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Braun originated in Germany in 1921, but it is owned today by Procter & Gamble, which is headquartered in the United States. So Braun is a German-origin brand under American ownership.
Procter & Gamble completed its acquisition of Braun on 1 October 2005, after announcing the deal on 28 January 2005. The deal, which also included Gillette, Oral-B and Venus, was valued at $57 billion.
Before Procter & Gamble, Braun was owned by The Gillette Company until 2005.
Yes. As of 8 October 2026, Braun is still owned by Procter & Gamble. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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