Who owns Forment?
Forment is owned by APR (South Korea, KRX: 278470).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: APR Co., Ltd. Business Report (사업보고서) for fiscal year 2025, filed with DART, 23 March 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- APR Co., Ltd. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇰🇷 South Korea, Seoul
- Origin
- 🇰🇷 South Korea, Seoul
- Founded
- 2017
- Category
- Personal care & beauty › Cosmetics & fragrance › Fragrance
- Parent ticker
- KRX: 278470
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Forment
Forment is a lifestyle beauty brand that APR launched in June 2017. It sells perfumes, body washes and similar products which the company says are meant to bring out the wearer's own inner charm. APR reports it within its cosmetics and beauty segment, which made up 70.5 per cent of group revenue in 2025, alongside the much larger medicube and aprilskin brands.
Ownership timeline of Forment
Where Forment sits in APR
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by APR
APR controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in personal care & beauty.
Also in personal care & beauty
Founded in the 2010s
Other brands in fragrance, and who owns them
The 21 brands in fragrance on Brandtree belong to 11 owners. The largest is Puig, with 5.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Byredo | Puig | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| AERIN | Estée Lauder | 🇺🇸 United States |
| O Boticário | Grupo Boticário | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Eskulin | Kino Indonesia | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| Creed | L'Oréal | 🇫🇷 France |
| Brut | Unilever | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Jafra | Betterware (BeFra) | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
| Chanel No. 5 | Chanel | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
About the owner: APR
APR is a publicly listed company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 2014. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as KRX: 278470.
APR is a Seoul beauty company founded in October 2014 by Kim Byung-hoon, its chief executive and largest shareholder with 31.94 per cent of the shares at the end of 2025. It sells skin care, make-up and fragrance under medicube, aprilskin and Forment, and home beauty devices under medicube AGE-R, which its subsidiary APR Factory builds. Listed on KOSPI since February 2024, it had 2025 revenue of 1.53 trillion won, 80 per cent of it from outside Korea.
🇰🇷 Forment and other South Korean brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 237 brands that began in South Korea. 12 of them (5%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Forment is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Forment?
The parent company of Forment is APR, a publicly listed company headquartered in South Korea.
Is Forment South Korean?
Yes. Forment originated in South Korea in 2017 and its owner, APR, is also headquartered in South Korea.
Is Forment still owned by APR?
Yes. As of 28 October 2026, Forment is still owned by APR. 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] APR Co., Ltd. Business Report (사업보고서) for fiscal year 2025, filed with DART — APR Co., Ltd., Stock exchange filing, published 23 March 2026; retrieved 28 October 2026.
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