Who owns H&M?
H&M is owned by H&M Group (Sweden, STO: HM-B).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB Annual and Sustainability Report 2025, 26 March 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇸🇪 Sweden, Stockholm
- Origin
- 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Founded
- 1947
- Category
- Apparel, footwear & accessories › Fashion apparel › Casual & denim
- Parent ticker
- STO: HM-B
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About H&M
The H&M chain sells clothing for women, men and children at low prices across more than seventy markets. Its designer collaborations, beginning with Karl Lagerfeld in 2004, created a format the whole high street copied. The company was founded in Sweden in 1947 as a womenswear shop called Hennes, meaning hers, and remains controlled by the founding family.
Ownership timeline of H&M
Where H&M sits in H&M Group
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by H&M Group
H&M Group controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 6 of them in apparel, footwear & accessories.
Also in apparel, footwear & accessories
- & Other Stories (2013)
- Arket (2017)
- COS (2007)
- Monki (2006)
- Weekday (2002)
Other brands in casual & denim, and who owns them
The 133 brands in casual & denim on Brandtree belong to 59 owners. The largest is Azzas 2154, with 8; H&M Group has 6.
About the owner: H&M Group
H&M Group is a publicly listed company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in 1947. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as STO: HM-B.
H&M was founded in Västerås, Sweden in 1947 as a womenswear shop called Hennes, and added menswear after buying a hunting equipment retailer called Mauritz Widforss in 1968, which is where the second name comes from. It is the second-largest fashion retailer in the world and the Persson family controls it.
🇸🇪 H&M and other Swedish brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 117 brands that began in Sweden. 53 of them (45%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; H&M is not one of them.
- EripioWear — Hultafors Group 🇸🇪
- Haglöfs — ASICS 🇯🇵
- Peak Performance — Amer Sports 🇫🇮
- Thule — Thule 🇸🇪
- AXA — Lantmännen 🇸🇪
- Absolut — Pernod Ricard 🇫🇷
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of H&M?
The parent company of H&M is H&M Group, a publicly listed company headquartered in Sweden.
Is H&M Swedish?
Yes. H&M originated in Sweden in 1947 and its owner, H&M Group, is also headquartered in Sweden.
Is H&M still owned by H&M Group?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, H&M is still owned by H&M Group. 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] H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB Annual and Sustainability Report 2025 — H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB, Annual report, published 26 March 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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