Who owns Hansgrohe?
Hansgrohe is owned by Masco (the United States, NYSE: MAS), which has owned the brand since 1985.[1]
Masco owns 68% of Hansgrohe rather than all of it.
Evidence: Masco Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-10, SEC EDGAR, 10 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Masco Corporation (68% stake) verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Livonia, Michigan
- Origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- Founded
- 1901
- Category
- Home, garden & DIY › Home improvement › Paint & coatings
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: MAS
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Hansgrohe
Hansgrohe is a German maker of showers and taps founded in 1901, and it invented the modern handheld shower in 1968. Masco holds a majority stake acquired in stages from 1985, with the founding family retaining the rest. It sells under both the Hansgrohe name and the designer-led Axor line developed with outside architects.
What Masco's annual report says about Hansgrohe
Sentences about Hansgrohe from Masco's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
In the first quarter of 2021, our Hansgrohe SE subsidiary acquired a 75.1 percent equity interest in Easy Sanitary Solutions B.V.
The remaining 24.9 percent equity interest in ESS was subject to a call and put option that was exercisable by Hansgrohe SE or the sellers, respectively, any time after December 31, 2023.
On May 9, 2023, our Hansgrohe SE subsidiary entered into 70 million ($ 77 million) of short-term borrowings to support working capital needs.
How often Masco names Hansgrohe 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 Hansgrohe
Where Hansgrohe sits in Masco
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Masco
Masco controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in home, garden & diy.
Also in home, garden & diy
Other brands in paint & coatings, and who owns them
The 38 brands in paint & coatings on Brandtree belong to 13 owners. The largest is RPM, with 6; Masco has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Rust-Oleum | RPM | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Krylon | Sherwin-Williams | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Dulux | AkzoNobel | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
| Dulux (Australia and New Zealand) | Nippon Paint | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| MAGNAT | Śnieżka | 🇵🇱 Poland |
| Asian Paints | Asian Paints | 🇮🇳 India |
| Craftsman | Stanley Black & Decker | 🇺🇸 United States |
| PebbleTec | CRH | 🇮🇪 Ireland |
About the owner: Masco
Masco is a publicly listed company headquartered in Livonia, Michigan, United States, founded in 1929. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: MAS.
Masco was founded in Michigan in 1929 as a machine shop and transformed itself in 1954 by launching the first single-handle mixer tap, which its founder had been told would never sell. It now concentrates on paint and plumbing after selling its cabinet and window businesses.
🇩🇪 Hansgrohe and other German brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 252 brands that began in Germany. 93 of them (37%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Hansgrohe among them.
- B1 Discount Baumarkt — REWE Group 🇩🇪
- BASF Agricultural Solutions — BASF 🇩🇪
- Dyckerhoff — Buzzi 🇮🇹
- Gardena — Husqvarna Group 🇸🇪
- Paper+Design — Duni Group 🇸🇪
- Villeroy & Boch — Villeroy & Boch 🇩🇪
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Hansgrohe?
The parent company of Hansgrohe is Masco, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Hansgrohe German or American?
Hansgrohe originated in Germany in 1901, but it is owned today by Masco, which is headquartered in the United States. So Hansgrohe is a German-origin brand under American ownership.
Since when has Masco owned Hansgrohe?
Masco has owned Hansgrohe since 1985.
Is Hansgrohe still owned by Masco?
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, Hansgrohe is still owned by Masco (68% stake). 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] Masco Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-10 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 10 February 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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