Kate Somerville is owned by Unilever (the United Kingdom, LSE: ULVR), which acquired the brand on 1 November 2015.[1][2] Kate Somerville was founded in 2004 in the United States and was independent until 2015.
Evidence: Unilever PLC Annual Report on Form 20-F for 2025, SEC EDGAR, 12 March 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Kate Somerville is a skin care brand created in 2004 by the aesthetician of the same name, growing out of her Los Angeles clinic and its client list. The products are positioned as clinic-strength treatments for consumer use. Unilever acquired the brand in 2015 during its push into prestige beauty.
Sentences about Kate Somerville from Unilever's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
(b) 2025 net loss arises from the disposals of The Vegetarian Butcher and Kate Somerville, partially offset by a gain on Conimex disposal. 2024 net loss related to the disposals of our Russian business, Elida Beauty, Pureit and Qinyuan. 2023 includes a gain of 497 million related to the disposal of Suave.
(c) 2025 net loss arises from the disposals of The Vegetarian Butcher and Kate Somerville, partially offset by gain on Conimex disposal. 2024 net loss related to the disposals of our Russian business, Elida Beauty, Pureit and Qinyuan. 2023 includes a gain of 497 million related to Suave.
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 more often than it was three years earlier.
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Unilever controls 53 brands on Brandtree, 34 of them in personal care & beauty.
The 48 brands in dermocosmetics & clinical skin care on Brandtree belong to 27 owners. The largest is Ego Pharmaceuticals, with 9; Unilever has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| DermAid | Ego Pharmaceuticals | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Biretix | Cantabria Labs | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| CeraVe | L'Oréal | 🇫🇷 France |
| A-Derma | Pierre Fabre | 🇫🇷 France |
| Minon | Daiichi Sankyo Healthcare | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Alastin | Galderma | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| REALBARRIER | Neopharm | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Celapi | Able C&C | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
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Unilever is a publicly listed company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, founded in 1929. Brandtree records 53 brands under its control, and it is listed as LSE: ULVR, NYSE: UL and AEX: UNA.
Unilever is a British consumer goods company formed in 1929 by the merger of Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie and British soap maker Lever Brothers. It reports through four business groups: Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care, Home Care and Foods. Its ice cream business was demerged as The Magnum Ice Cream Company in December 2025.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,570 brands that began in the United States. 492 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Kate Somerville among them.
Unilever acquired Kate Somerville, a Los Angeles clinic-founded skincare brand, continuing a run of prestige beauty purchases made within months of each other. The price was not disclosed.
The parent company of Kate Somerville is Unilever, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Kate Somerville originated in the United States in 2004, but it is owned today by Unilever, which is headquartered in the United Kingdom. So Kate Somerville is an American-origin brand under British ownership.
Unilever completed its acquisition of Kate Somerville on 1 November 2015, after announcing the deal on 1 November 2015. The price was not disclosed.
Kate Somerville was an independent company from its founding in 2004 until Unilever acquired it in 2015.
Yes. As of 29 October 2026, Kate Somerville is still owned by Unilever. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
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