Who owns Clinique?
Clinique is owned by Estée Lauder (the United States, NYSE: EL).[1]
Evidence: The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-08-19, SEC EDGAR, 19 August 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, New York
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 1968
- Category
- Personal care & beauty › Skin care › Facial skin care
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: EL
- Trademark registrant
- CLINIQUE LABORATORIES, LLC (USPTO)
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Clinique
Clinique launched in 1968 as the first dermatologist-developed, allergy-tested and fragrance-free cosmetics line, an idea that came from a Vogue article asking whether great skin could be created. Its three-step system and pale green packaging have been essentially unchanged since, and staff wear white lab coats at the counter.
What Estée Lauder's annual report says about Clinique
Sentences about Clinique from Estée Lauder's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Introduced in 1968, Clinique skin care and makeup products are all allergy tested and 100% fragrance free and have been designed to address individual skin types and needs.
How often Estée Lauder names Clinique 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 less often than it was three years earlier.
Trademark record for Clinique
The USPTO record for the Clinique mark lists CLINIQUE LABORATORIES, LLC as the owner of record (serial number 74038780). A trademark is often held by a group company rather than the listed parent, so the registrant's name can differ from the owner named above.[2]
Ownership timeline of Clinique
- Current owner Estée Lauder [1] verified
Where Clinique sits in Estée Lauder
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Estée Lauder
Estée Lauder controls 13 brands on Brandtree, 13 of them in personal care & beauty.
Also in personal care & beauty
- AERIN (2012)
- Aveda (1978)
- Bobbi Brown (1991)
- Darphin (1958)
- Estée Lauder (1946)
- Jo Malone London (1990)
- La Mer (1965)
- M·A·C (1984)
- Origins (1990)
- The Ordinary (2016)
- Tom Ford Beauty (2006)
- Too Faced (1998)
Other brands in facial skin care, and who owns them
The 76 brands in facial skin care on Brandtree belong to 38 owners. The largest is POLA ORBIS, with 6; Estée Lauder has 5.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| DECENCIA | POLA ORBIS | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| ANYA | Proya | 🇨🇳 China |
| COSRX | Amorepacific | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Clé de Peau Beauté | Shiseido | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Paula's Choice | Unilever | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| ALBION | KOSÉ | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| O HUI | LG H&H | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| ageLOC | Nu Skin | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Estée Lauder
Estée Lauder is a publicly listed company headquartered in New York, United States, founded in 1946. Brandtree records 13 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: EL.
The Estée Lauder Companies was founded in New York in 1946 by Estée and Joseph Lauder. It sells prestige beauty through department stores, travel retail and specialty channels, and the Lauder family retains voting control.
Estée Lauder: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Clinique 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; Clinique is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Clinique?
The parent company of Clinique is Estée Lauder, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Clinique American?
Yes. Clinique originated in the United States in 1968 and its owner, Estée Lauder, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Clinique still owned by Estée Lauder?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Clinique is still owned by Estée Lauder. 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 Estée Lauder Companies Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-08-19 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 19 August 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
- [2] USPTO: CLINIQUE, serial 74038780 — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark registry; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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