Who owns Fems?
Fems is owned by Hemas (Sri Lanka, CSE: HHL.N0000).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Hemas Holdings PLC Annual Report 2025/26. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Hemas Holdings PLC reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka, Colombo
- Origin
- 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
- Category
- Personal care & beauty › Feminine care & incontinence › Feminine care
- Parent ticker
- CSE: HHL.N0000
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Fems
Fems is Hemas's sanitary napkin brand in Sri Lanka, relaunched in 2021 with what the company calls Fit to Body technology and sold in wings, cotton feel and heavy flow variants. The Fems HER Foundation supported more than 30,600 women and girls with menstrual health and hygiene in the year to March 2026, and the brand won two Silver Effies for its Forward and Fearless campaign and gold for CSR brand of the year at the 2025 SLIM Brand Excellence Awards.
Ownership timeline of Fems
Where Fems sits in Hemas
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Hemas
Hemas controls 10 brands on Brandtree, 8 of them in personal care & beauty.
Also in personal care & beauty
Other brands in feminine care, and who owns them
The 25 brands in feminine care on Brandtree belong to 19 owners. The largest is Procter & Gamble, with 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Always | Procter & Gamble | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Carefree | Kenvue | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Kotex | Kimberly-Clark | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Absolute | Kino Indonesia | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| Femina | Square Toiletries | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh |
| Savlon Freedom | ACI Limited | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh |
| Chilly | Bolton Group | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Mia | CMPC | 🇨🇱 Chile |
About the owner: Hemas
Hemas is a publicly listed company headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, founded in 1948. Brandtree records 10 brands under its control, and it is listed as CSE: HHL.N0000.
Hemas Holdings is a Colombo group incorporated in 1948 that works in three sectors: consumer brands, healthcare and mobility. Consumer brands earned 36.9 per cent of group revenue in the year to 31 March 2026, from household and personal care products made by Hemas Manufacturing, a hair oil business in Bangladesh and Atlas school stationery, and Hemas has proposed buying a stationery maker in Kenya. Healthcare covers pharmaceutical distribution, the drug maker Morison and hospitals. No shareholder controls the company: its four largest each held between 14.8 and 15.7 per cent.
🇱🇰 Fems and other Sri Lankan brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 60 brands that began in Sri Lanka. 1 of them (2%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Fems is not one of them.
- Ambewela — Lanka Milk Foods 🇱🇰
- Bison — DCSL 🇱🇰
- Cargills Food City — Cargills 🇱🇰
- Causeway Paints — Asian Paints 🇮🇳
- Cinnamon Air — Saffron Aviation 🇱🇰
- Daintee — Sunshine Holdings 🇱🇰
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Fems?
The parent company of Fems is Hemas, a publicly listed company headquartered in Sri Lanka.
Is Fems Sri Lankan?
Yes. Fems originated in Sri Lanka and its owner, Hemas, is also headquartered in Sri Lanka.
Is Fems still owned by Hemas?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Fems is still owned by Hemas. 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] Hemas Holdings PLC Annual Report 2025/26 — Hemas Holdings PLC, Annual report; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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