Who owns Jo Malone London?
Jo Malone London is owned by Estée Lauder (the United States, NYSE: EL), which has owned the brand since 1999.[1]
Evidence: The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-08-19, SEC EDGAR, 19 August 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, New York
- Origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, London
- Founded
- 1990
- Category
- Personal care & beauty › Cosmetics & fragrance › Fragrance
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: EL
- Trademark registrant
- JO MALONE INC. (USPTO)
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Jo Malone London
Jo Malone London is a British fragrance house founded in 1990 by a facialist who began by giving customers scented creams she had made herself. Its simple scents are designed to be layered rather than worn alone. Estée Lauder acquired it in 1999, and the founder left in 2006 to start another brand.
What Estée Lauder's annual report says about Jo Malone London
Sentences about Jo Malone London from Estée Lauder's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Acquired in 1999, Jo Malone London is synonymous with a distinctly British character that delights in the unexpected, with timeless, carefully-crafted scents designed for discovery.
How often Estée Lauder names Jo Malone London 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.
Trademark record for Jo Malone London
The USPTO record for the Jo Malone London mark lists JO MALONE INC. as the owner of record (serial number 76347331). A trademark is often held by a group company rather than the listed parent, so the registrant's name can differ from the owner named above.[2]
Ownership timeline of Jo Malone London
- 1999 – present Estée Lauder [1] verified
Where Jo Malone London sits in Estée Lauder
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Estée Lauder
Estée Lauder controls 13 brands on Brandtree, 13 of them in personal care & beauty.
Also in personal care & beauty
- AERIN (2012)
- Aveda (1978)
- Bobbi Brown (1991)
- Clinique (1968)
- Darphin (1958)
- Estée Lauder (1946)
- La Mer (1965)
- M·A·C (1984)
- Origins (1990)
- The Ordinary (2016)
- Tom Ford Beauty (2006)
- Too Faced (1998)
Other brands in fragrance, and who owns them
The 20 brands in fragrance on Brandtree belong to 10 owners. The largest is Puig, with 5; Estée Lauder has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Byredo | Puig | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| 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 |
| Twelve Plus | Osotspa | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
About the owner: Estée Lauder
Estée Lauder is a publicly listed company headquartered in New York, United States, founded in 1946. Brandtree records 13 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: EL.
The Estée Lauder Companies was founded in New York in 1946 by Estée and Joseph Lauder. It sells prestige beauty through department stores, travel retail and specialty channels, and the Lauder family retains voting control.
Estée Lauder: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇬🇧 Jo Malone London and other British brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 552 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 291 of them (53%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Jo Malone London among them.
- Andrex — Kimberly-Clark 🇺🇸
- Batiste — Church & Dwight 🇺🇸
- Charlotte Tilbury — Puig 🇪🇸
- Childs Farm — PZ Cussons 🇬🇧
- Creed — L'Oréal 🇫🇷
- Cushelle — Essity 🇸🇪
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Jo Malone London?
The parent company of Jo Malone London is Estée Lauder, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Jo Malone London British or American?
Jo Malone London originated in the United Kingdom in 1990, but it is owned today by Estée Lauder, which is headquartered in the United States. So Jo Malone London is a British-origin brand under American ownership.
Since when has Estée Lauder owned Jo Malone London?
Estée Lauder has owned Jo Malone London since 1999.
Is Jo Malone London still owned by Estée Lauder?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Jo Malone London is still owned by Estée Lauder. 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] The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-08-19 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 19 August 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
- [2] USPTO: JO MALONE, serial 76347331 — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark registry; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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