Who owns Cutter?
Cutter is owned by Spectrum Brands (the United States, NYSE: SPB).[1]
Evidence: Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-18, SEC EDGAR, 18 November 2025. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Middleton, Wisconsin
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 1958
- Category
- Home care › Air care & pest control › Insecticide & repellent
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: SPB
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Cutter
Cutter makes personal insect repellents and outdoor mosquito control products, founded in 1958. It competes directly with SC Johnson's OFF! in a category where seasonal weather and disease outbreaks drive most of the volume. Spectrum Brands owns it, and sales rise sharply in years when mosquito-borne illness is reported widely in the press.
How often Spectrum Brands names Cutter 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.
Ownership timeline of Cutter
- Current owner Spectrum Brands [1] verified
Where Cutter sits in Spectrum Brands
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Spectrum Brands
Spectrum Brands controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in home care.
Also in home care
- George Foreman Grill (1994)
- Spectracide (1963)
Founded in the 1950s
- Tetra (1951)
Other brands in insecticide & repellent, and who owns them
The 26 brands in insecticide & repellent on Brandtree belong to 13 owners. The largest is Earth, with 6; Spectrum Brands has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Black Cap | Earth | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Kometoban | S.T. Corporation | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| BOP | Goddard Enterprises | 🇧🇧 Barbados |
| Good Knight | Godrej Consumer | 🇮🇳 India |
| Prozap | Neogen | 🇺🇸 United States |
| OFF! | SC Johnson | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Ortho | Scotts Miracle-Gro | 🇺🇸 United States |
| ACI Aerosol | ACI Limited | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh |
About the owner: Spectrum Brands
Spectrum Brands is a publicly listed company headquartered in Middleton, Wisconsin, United States, founded in 1906. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: SPB.
Spectrum Brands is a diversified consumer products company built by acquisition, now focused on home and garden, pet supplies and home appliances after selling its battery and auto care businesses to Energizer in 2019 and its hardware business to Assa Abloy in 2023.
Spectrum Brands: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Cutter 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; Cutter is not one of them.
- 3-IN-ONE — WD-40 Company 🇺🇸
- Air Wick — Reckitt 🇬🇧
- Ajax — Colgate-Palmolive 🇺🇸
- All-Clad — Groupe SEB 🇫🇷
- Amazon Basics — Amazon 🇺🇸
- American Girl — Mattel 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Cutter?
The parent company of Cutter is Spectrum Brands, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Cutter American?
Yes. Cutter originated in the United States in 1958 and its owner, Spectrum Brands, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Cutter still owned by Spectrum Brands?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Cutter is still owned by Spectrum Brands. 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] Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-18 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 18 November 2025; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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