Who owns Charmin?
Charmin is owned by Procter & Gamble (the United States, NYSE: PG).[1]
Evidence: The Procter & Gamble Company Form 10-K for fiscal 2026, note 15 - subsequent events, SEC EDGAR. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- The Procter & Gamble Company verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 1928
- Category
- Personal care & beauty › Tissue & paper hygiene › Facial tissue & toilet paper
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: PG
- Trademark registrant
- PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY, THE (USPTO)
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Charmin
Charmin is an American toilet paper brand founded in 1928, whose name came from a comment that the packaging design was charming. Procter & Gamble acquired it in 1957. Its long-running advertising, in which a shopkeeper begged customers not to squeeze the product, ran for more than twenty years.
What Procter & Gamble's annual report says about Charmin
Sentences about Charmin from Procter & Gamble's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Our family care business is predominantly a The Procter & Gamble Company 17 North American business comprised primarily of the Bounty paper towel and Charmin toilet paper brands.
North America market shares are nearly 40% for Bounty and over 25% for Charmin.
How often Procter & Gamble names Charmin 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.
Trademark record for Charmin
The USPTO record for the Charmin mark lists PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY, THE as the owner of record (serial number 71266537). That name matches the owner named above.[2]
Ownership timeline of Charmin
- Current owner Procter & Gamble [1] verified
Where Charmin sits in Procter & Gamble
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble controls 38 brands on Brandtree, 23 of them in personal care & beauty.
Also in personal care & beauty
Other brands in facial tissue & toilet paper, and who owns them
The 34 brands in facial tissue & toilet paper on Brandtree belong to 14 owners. The largest is Sofidel, with 7; Procter & Gamble has 3.
About the owner: Procter & Gamble
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.
Procter & Gamble: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Charmin and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,550 brands that began in the United States. 479 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Charmin is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Charmin?
The parent company of Charmin is Procter & Gamble, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Charmin American?
Yes. Charmin originated in the United States in 1928 and its owner, Procter & Gamble, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Charmin still owned by Procter & Gamble?
Yes. As of 8 October 2026, Charmin is still owned by Procter & Gamble. 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 Procter & Gamble Company Form 10-K for fiscal 2026, note 15 - subsequent events — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K; retrieved 16 September 2026.
- [2] USPTO: CHARMIN, serial 71266537, registration 0248549 — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark registry; retrieved 25 September 2026.
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