Who owns CHARMY?
CHARMY is owned by Lion (Japan, TSE: 4912).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Lion Integrated Report 2025, Lion Corporation. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Lion Corporation reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇯🇵 Japan, Tokyo
- Origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Founded
- 1982
- Category
- Home care › Household cleaning › Dishwashing
- Parent ticker
- TSE: 4912
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About CHARMY
CHARMY is Lion's dishwashing detergent brand, which began in 1982 with Charmy Green, a detergent designed to be soft on the skin. In 2015 Lion launched CHARMY Magica, a nano-cleansing dishwashing detergent, and the brand has continued to add formats, including a CHARMY Crysta pre-wash foam spray released in Japan in September 2026.
Ownership timeline of CHARMY
Where CHARMY sits in Lion
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Lion
Lion controls 9 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in home care.
Also in home care
- Acron (1963)
- LOOK
- Mama Lemon (1966)
- TOP (1979)
Founded in the 1980s
- CLINICA (1981)
Other brands in dishwashing, and who owns them
The 27 brands in dishwashing on Brandtree belong to 20 owners. The largest is Ypê, with 3; Lion has 2.
About the owner: Lion
Lion is a publicly listed company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1891. Brandtree records 9 brands under its control, and it is listed as TSE: 4912.
Lion Corporation is a Japanese maker of toothpastes, toothbrushes, laundry and dishwashing detergents, soaps and over-the-counter medicines. It dates its foundation to 30 October 1891, when Tomijiro Kobayashi established T. Kobayashi & Co. in Kanda, Tokyo, and the present company was formed in 1980 by the merger of Lion Dentifrice and Lion Fat and Oil. Headquartered in Taito-ku, Tokyo and listed on the Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, it operates subsidiaries in South Korea and China and joint ventures in Thailand and Malaysia with local partners SAHA and Lam Soon, and has made oral healthcare the top priority of its Vision2030 plan.
🇯🇵 CHARMY and other Japanese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 456 brands that began in Japan. 23 of them (5%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; CHARMY is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of CHARMY?
The parent company of CHARMY is Lion, a publicly listed company headquartered in Japan.
Is CHARMY Japanese?
Yes. CHARMY originated in Japan in 1982 and its owner, Lion, is also headquartered in Japan.
Is CHARMY still owned by Lion?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, CHARMY is still owned by Lion. 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] Lion Integrated Report 2025 — Lion Corporation, Annual report; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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