Contigo is owned by Newell Brands (the United States, NASDAQ: NWL), which acquired the brand on 15 April 2016, as part of a $15.4 billion deal that also included Yankee Candle, Coleman and Crock-Pot.[1][2] Contigo was founded in 2004 in the United States and was independent until 2016.
Evidence: Newell Brands Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-13, SEC EDGAR, 13 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Contigo makes insulated drinkware, founded in 2004 and known for an autoseal lid that closes between sips rather than requiring the user to close it, designed to prevent spills in bags and cars. It joined Newell with the Jarden acquisition in 2016.
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.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
Open the full Newell Brands ownership tree →
See the full Newell Brands brand portfolio (8) →
Newell Brands controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 7 of them in home care.
The 105 brands in kitchenware & small appliances on Brandtree belong to 36 owners. The largest is Arçelik, with 13; Newell Brands has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Arçelik | Arçelik | 🇹🇷 Turkey |
| AQUA | Haier | 🇨🇳 China |
| COLMO | Midea | 🇨🇳 China |
| All-Clad | Groupe SEB | 🇫🇷 France |
| Balay | BSH | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Hamilton Beach | Hamilton Beach Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Amica | Amica | 🇵🇱 Poland |
| Baratza | Breville Group | 🇦🇺 Australia |
Every brand in kitchenware & small appliances and its owner →
Newell Brands is a publicly listed company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, founded in 1903. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: NWL.
Newell Brands makes housewares, writing instruments, outdoor gear and baby products. Its 2016 purchase of Jarden roughly doubled its size and led to years of divestitures.
Newell Brands: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
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; Contigo is not one of them.
Newell Rubbermaid acquired Jarden for about $15.4 billion and renamed itself Newell Brands, roughly doubling in size overnight. Jarden had itself been assembled from dozens of acquisitions, and the combined company spent the following years selling many of them again after the debt proved heavier than the integration was worth.
The parent company of Contigo is Newell Brands, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Yes. Contigo originated in the United States in 2004 and its owner, Newell Brands, is also headquartered in the United States.
Newell Brands completed its acquisition of Contigo on 15 April 2016, after announcing the deal on 14 December 2015. The deal, which also included Yankee Candle, Coleman and Crock-Pot, was valued at $15.4 billion (enterprise value).
Contigo was an independent company from its founding in 2004 until Newell Brands acquired it in 2016.
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Contigo is still owned by Newell Brands. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
Report a correction Opens a pre-filled GitHub issue. See our corrections policy.
Brandtree needs to remember this choice and does not set any other cookie unless you accept.
If you choose “Accept all”, we also use Google Analytics cookies to count visits and see which pages help, so we can improve the site.
If you choose “Accept required”, no analytics cookie is set. Google Analytics still receives a cookieless ping with the page address and your IP address. No advertising is used either way. Privacy policy