Who owns Kaori?
Kaori is owned by Dinant (Honduras).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Dinant — Historia, Corporación Dinant. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Corporación Dinant reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇭🇳 Honduras, Tegucigalpa
- Origin
- 🇭🇳 Honduras
- Category
- Home care › Air care & pest control › Air freshener
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Kaori
Kaori is Dinant's air-care brand, named in the company's own product navigation as the sole entry in its Air Care Division alongside its Home Care and Personal Care lines. It extends Dinant's household-products business beyond cleaning into scenting the home, sold across the Central American markets the company distributes to.
Ownership timeline of Kaori
Where Kaori sits in Dinant
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Dinant
Dinant controls 9 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in home care.
Also in home care
Other brands in air freshener, and who owns them
The 11 brands in air freshener on Brandtree belong to 9 owners. The largest is S.T. Corporation, with 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Sawaday | Kobayashi Pharmaceutical | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Dashutan Charcoal | S.T. Corporation | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Little Trees | Car-Freshner | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Febreze | Procter & Gamble | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Air Wick | Reckitt | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Glade | SC Johnson | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Spring | Square Toiletries | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh |
| QAIS | Sunstar | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
About the owner: Dinant
Dinant is a privately held company headquartered in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, founded in 1960. Brandtree records 9 brands under its control.
Corporación Dinant is a Honduran consumer-goods manufacturer that began on 13 July 1960 as Químicas Dinant de Centroamérica, founded by Miguel Facussé Barjum with $3,500 of share capital to make soap, detergent and cleaning products under contract to Procter & Gamble, American Home Products, Stepan Chemical Company and Chemsearch. It moved into personal care in the 1960s and 1970s, food in 1972, and snacks in 1973 with its first plantain chips, and later built an oil-palm growing and extraction business that now feeds its cooking-oil brand. It is family-owned and today sells across Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic.
🇭🇳 Kaori and other Honduran brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 10 brands that began in Honduras. All of them are controlled from Honduras.
- CM Airlines — CM Airlines 🇭🇳
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Kaori?
The parent company of Kaori is Dinant, a privately held company headquartered in Honduras.
Is Kaori Honduran?
Yes. Kaori originated in Honduras and its owner, Dinant, is also headquartered in Honduras.
Is Kaori still owned by Dinant?
Yes. As of 21 September 2026, Kaori is still owned by Dinant. 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] Dinant — Historia — Corporación Dinant, Official document; retrieved 21 September 2026.
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