Who owns EQUITANCE?
EQUITANCE is owned by Sunstar (Switzerland).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Sunstar Group — Our Story, Sunstar Suisse S.A. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Sunstar Suisse S.A. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland, Etoy
- Origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Founded
- 2005
- Category
- Personal care & beauty › Skin care › Facial skin care
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About EQUITANCE
EQUITANCE is Sunstar's beauty care brand, launched in Japan in 2005 as Equitance Beauté Holistique and sold only there. Its name is built from the words equity and existence, and it takes what the company calls an approach from inside and outside the body, which places it closer to Sunstar's health foods than to its oral care range.
Ownership timeline of EQUITANCE
Where EQUITANCE sits in Sunstar
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Sunstar
Sunstar controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in personal care & beauty.
Also in personal care & beauty
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.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| DECENCIA | POLA ORBIS | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Clinique | Estée Lauder | 🇺🇸 United States |
| 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 |
About the owner: Sunstar
Sunstar is a privately held company headquartered in Etoy, Switzerland, founded in 1932. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control.
Sunstar is a privately held group run by the Kaneda family, with its global headquarters at Etoy in Switzerland and its Japanese headquarters at Takatsuki near Osaka, where Kunio Kaneda founded it in 1932 selling rubber cement in a portable metal tube for mending bicycle tyres. It moved into oral care in 1946 with toothpaste in a tube, and the Sunstar name was coined as a reminder to brush with the sun in the morning and the stars at night. It employs about 4,000 people in 21 countries and runs a consumer oral care business and an industrial one making adhesives, sealants and motorcycle parts.
🇯🇵 EQUITANCE and other Japanese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 437 brands that began in Japan. 21 of them (5%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, EQUITANCE among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of EQUITANCE?
The parent company of EQUITANCE is Sunstar, a privately held company headquartered in Switzerland.
Is EQUITANCE Japanese or Swiss?
EQUITANCE originated in Japan in 2005, but it is owned today by Sunstar, which is headquartered in Switzerland. So EQUITANCE is a Japanese-origin brand under Swiss ownership.
Is EQUITANCE still owned by Sunstar?
Yes. As of 27 September 2026, EQUITANCE is still owned by Sunstar. 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] Sunstar Group — Our Story — Sunstar Suisse S.A., Official document; retrieved 27 September 2026.
- [2] Sunstar Group — Health Food and Beauty brands — Sunstar Suisse S.A., Official document; retrieved 27 September 2026.
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