Who owns Clear?
Clear is owned by Unilever (the United Kingdom, LSE: ULVR).[1]
Evidence: Unilever PLC Annual Report on Form 20-F for 2025, SEC EDGAR, 12 March 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Unilever PLC verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, London
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 1974
- Category
- Personal care & beauty › Hair care › Shampoo & conditioner
- Parent ticker
- LSE: ULVR NYSE: UL AEX: UNA
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Clear
Clear is an anti-dandruff shampoo brand Unilever sells mainly in Asia, Latin America and eastern Europe, positioned around scalp health rather than hair appearance alone. It is one of the company's larger hair care brands by volume in those markets, though it is little known in western Europe and North America.
What Unilever's annual report says about Clear
Sentences about Clear from Unilever's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Meanwhile, Sunsilk and Clear were impacted by softness in several emerging markets and deliberate tail brand portfolio rationalisation.
Ownership timeline of Clear
Where Clear sits in Unilever
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
- Axe
- Bango
- Brut
- Cif
- Clear
- Close-Up
- Colman's
- Comfort
- Degree
- Dermalogica
- Domestos
- Dove
- Dove Men+Care
- Grüns (80%)
- Hellmann's
- Horlicks
- Hourglass Cosmetics
- Impulse
- Kate Somerville
- Knorr
- Lifebuoy
- Liquid I.V.
- Living Proof
- Lux
- Lynx
- Maizena
- Marmite
- Murad
- Nexxus
- Nutrafol
- OMO
- Paula's Choice
- Pepsodent
- Persil
- Pond's
- Pot Noodle
- Radox
- Rexona
- Royco
- SheaMoisture
- Signal
- Simple
- St. Ives
- Suave (outside the United States and Canada)
- Sunlight
- Sunsilk
- Sure
- Tatcha
- The Vegetarian Butcher
- TRESemmé
- Vaseline
- VO5
- Zendium
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Other brands owned by Unilever
Unilever controls 53 brands on Brandtree, 34 of them in personal care & beauty.
Also in personal care & beauty
- Axe (1983)
- Brut (1964)
- Close-Up (1967)
- Degree (1990)
- Dermalogica (1986)
- Dove (1957)
- Dove Men+Care (2010)
- Hourglass Cosmetics (2004)
- Impulse (1972)
- Kate Somerville (2004)
- Lifebuoy (1894)
- Living Proof (2005)
- Lux (1899)
- Lynx (1985)
- Murad (1989)
- Nexxus (1979)
- Paula's Choice (1995)
- Pepsodent (1915)
Founded in the 1970s
- Pot Noodle (1977)
Other brands in shampoo & conditioner, and who owns them
Unilever has more brands in shampoo & conditioner on Brandtree than any other owner: 7 of 56.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Alpist | Aekyung | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Brillare | Emami | 🇮🇳 India |
| Garnier | L'Oréal | 🇫🇷 France |
| Aujua | Milbon | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Movit | Movit | 🇺🇬 Uganda |
| Head & Shoulders | Procter & Gamble | 🇺🇸 United States |
| SebiRinse | Ego Pharmaceuticals | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Tío Nacho | Genomma Lab | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
About the owner: Unilever
Unilever is a publicly listed company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, founded in 1929. Brandtree records 53 brands under its control, and it is listed as LSE: ULVR, NYSE: UL and AEX: UNA.
Unilever is a British consumer goods company formed in 1929 by the merger of Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie and British soap maker Lever Brothers. It reports through four business groups: Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care, Home Care and Foods. Its ice cream business was demerged as The Magnum Ice Cream Company in December 2025.
🇺🇸 Clear and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Clear among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Clear?
The parent company of Clear is Unilever, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Is Clear American or British?
Clear originated in the United States in 1974, but it is owned today by Unilever, which is headquartered in the United Kingdom. So Clear is an American-origin brand under British ownership.
Is Clear still owned by Unilever?
Yes. As of 8 October 2026, Clear is still owned by Unilever. 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] Unilever PLC Annual Report on Form 20-F for 2025 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 12 March 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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