Breathe Right is owned by Prestige Consumer Healthcare (the United States, NYSE: PBH), which acquired the brand on 15 June 2026 for $1.04 billion from Foundation Consumer Healthcare.[1][2]
Breathe Right nasal strips were created in the 1990s, and Prestige Consumer Healthcare describes the brand as the number one name in the nasal strip category and synonymous with it. Prestige bought it with certain other brands from Foundation Consumer Healthcare for $1.045 billion, about $900 million after expected tax benefits, closing on 15 June 2026, in keeping with its habit of buying established over-the-counter names.
What Prestige Consumer Healthcare's annual report says about Breathe Right
Sentences about Breathe Right from Prestige Consumer Healthcare's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
In recent years, we have completed several acquisitions and strategic asset purchases, and we recently entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a portfolio of over-the-counter brands from Foundation Consumer Brands, LLC and its subsidiaries, including the Breathe Right and Dimetapp brands, among others.
Pending Acquisition of Foundation Consumer Brands Product Portfolio On March 19, 2026, we entered into a definitive agreement to acquire certain assets and assume certain liabilities primarily related to a portfolio of over-the-counter consumer health products, including Breathe Right and certain other brands from Foundation Consumer Brands, LLC.
In connection with the recently announced expected acquisition of a portfolio of brands, including Breathe Right , we expect to fund the transaction through a combination of a new term loan facility and cash on hand.
How often Prestige Consumer Healthcare names Breathe Right 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 more often than it was three years earlier.
Prestige Consumer Healthcare is a publicly listed company headquartered in Tarrytown, New York, United States, founded in 1996. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: PBH.
Prestige Consumer Healthcare buys established over-the-counter medicine brands that larger pharmaceutical companies no longer want to promote, and runs them with low overheads and targeted advertising. Almost its entire portfolio was acquired rather than developed.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,570 brands that began in the United States.
501 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Breathe Right is not one of them.
Prestige Consumer Healthcare bought the Breathe Right nasal strip brand and certain other brands from Foundation Consumer Healthcare for $1.045 billion, about $900 million after $150 million of expected tax benefits, and closed on 15 June 2026. When the deal was announced Prestige also named Dimetapp and Anbesol among the brands included. It is a characteristic Prestige purchase: an established over-the-counter name bought from a private owner rather than a brand built from scratch.
The parent company of Breathe Right is Prestige Consumer Healthcare, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Breathe Right American?
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Yes. Breathe Right originated in the United States and its owner, Prestige Consumer Healthcare, is also headquartered in the United States.
When did Prestige Consumer Healthcare buy Breathe Right?
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Prestige Consumer Healthcare completed its acquisition of Breathe Right on 15 June 2026, after announcing the deal on 20 March 2026. The deal was valued at $1.04 billion.
Is Breathe Right still owned by Prestige Consumer Healthcare?
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Yes. As of 29 October 2026, Breathe Right is still owned by Prestige Consumer Healthcare. 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.
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