Who owns Dramamine?
Dramamine is owned by Prestige Consumer Healthcare (the United States, NYSE: PBH).[1]
Evidence: Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-05-14, SEC EDGAR, 14 May 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Tarrytown, New York
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 1949
- Category
- Consumer health › Over-the-counter medicine › Digestive health
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: PBH
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Dramamine
Dramamine is a dimenhydrinate motion sickness treatment discovered in 1947 when a patient being treated for hives reported that her car sickness had disappeared. It is the leading motion sickness brand in the United States. Prestige Consumer Healthcare owns it, and the accidental discovery led to trials on troop ships before the drug was sold commercially.
How often Prestige Consumer Healthcare names Dramamine 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 more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Dramamine
- Current owner Prestige Consumer Healthcare [1] verified
Where Dramamine sits in Prestige Consumer Healthcare
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Prestige Consumer Healthcare
Prestige Consumer Healthcare controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in consumer health.
Also in consumer health
- Breathe Right
- Chloraseptic (1957)
- Clear Eyes (1963)
- Nix (1990)
Other brands in digestive health, and who owns them
The 25 brands in digestive health on Brandtree belong to 18 owners. The largest is Bayer, with 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Alka-Seltzer | Bayer | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Daiichi Sankyo Stomach Medicine | Daiichi Sankyo Healthcare | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Kaopectate | Genomma Lab | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
| Epocler | Hypera | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Entrostop | Kalbe Farma | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| Metamucil | Procter & Gamble | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Buscolysin | Sopharma | 🇧🇬 Bulgaria |
| Oracal | Birzeit Pharmaceutical | 🇵🇸 Palestine |
About the owner: Prestige Consumer Healthcare
Prestige Consumer Healthcare is a publicly listed company headquartered in Tarrytown, New York, United States, founded in 1996. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: PBH.
Prestige Consumer Healthcare buys established over-the-counter medicine brands that larger pharmaceutical companies no longer want to promote, and runs them with low overheads and targeted advertising. Almost its entire portfolio was acquired rather than developed.
Prestige Consumer Healthcare: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Dramamine and other American brands
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; Dramamine is not one of them.
- Advil — Haleon 🇬🇧
- Alka-Seltzer — Bayer 🇩🇪
- Band-Aid — Kenvue 🇺🇸
- Bufferin (United States) — Genomma Lab 🇲🇽
- Doan's — Dr. Reddy's 🇮🇳
- First Response — Church & Dwight 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Dramamine?
The parent company of Dramamine is Prestige Consumer Healthcare, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Dramamine American?
Yes. Dramamine originated in the United States in 1949 and its owner, Prestige Consumer Healthcare, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Dramamine still owned by Prestige Consumer Healthcare?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Dramamine is still owned by Prestige Consumer Healthcare. 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] Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-05-14 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 14 May 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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