Who owns Classmate?
Classmate is owned by ITC (India, NSE: ITC).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: ITC Limited Report and Accounts 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- ITC Limited reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇮🇳 India, Kolkata
- Origin
- 🇮🇳 India
- Founded
- 2003
- Category
- Home care › Household goods & storage › Writing instruments & office
- Parent ticker
- NSE: ITC
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Classmate
Classmate is the largest notebook brand in India, a market where school and college stationery is bought in enormous volume each academic year. ITC built it using paper from its own mills, which is unusual vertical integration for a consumer stationery business.
Ownership timeline of Classmate
Where Classmate sits in ITC
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by ITC
ITC controls 17 brands on Brandtree.
Founded in the 2000s
- Aashirvaad (2002)
- Bingo! (2007)
- Sunfeast (2003)
Other brands in writing instruments & office, and who owns them
The 69 brands in writing instruments & office on Brandtree belong to 20 owners. The largest is F.I.L.A., with 15.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Arches | F.I.L.A. | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Acroball | Pilot | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Dungeons & Dragons | Hasbro | 🇺🇸 United States |
| American Girl | Mattel | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Creepy Crawlers | JAKKS Pacific | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Flair | Flair | 🇮🇳 India |
| Éxito | Ledesma | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Colokit | Thien Long Group | 🇻🇳 Vietnam |
About the owner: ITC
ITC is a publicly listed company headquartered in Kolkata, India, founded in 1910. Brandtree records 17 brands under its control, and it is listed as NSE: ITC.
ITC was founded in 1910 as the Imperial Tobacco Company of India and spent the last three decades building a packaged foods business that now rivals its original trade. It is one of the largest companies in India by market value, and its foods division was assembled almost entirely from brands it created rather than bought.
🇮🇳 Classmate and other Indian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 279 brands that began in India. 9 of them (3%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Classmate is not one of them.
- C3 — DOMS 🇮🇳
- Dr. Wool — Jyothy Labs 🇮🇳
- Eveready (India) — Eveready India 🇮🇳
- Fevicol — Pidilite 🇮🇳
- Flair — Flair 🇮🇳
- Good Knight — Godrej Consumer 🇮🇳
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Classmate?
The parent company of Classmate is ITC, a publicly listed company headquartered in India.
Is Classmate Indian?
Yes. Classmate originated in India in 2003 and its owner, ITC, is also headquartered in India.
Is Classmate still owned by ITC?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Classmate is still owned by ITC. 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] ITC Limited Report and Accounts 2026 — ITC Limited, Annual report; retrieved 28 September 2026.
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