Who owns Kumarika?
Kumarika is owned by Hemas (Sri Lanka, CSE: HHL.N0000).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Hemas Holdings PLC Annual Report 2025/26. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Hemas Holdings PLC reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka, Colombo
- Origin
- 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
- Category
- Personal care & beauty › Hair care › Shampoo & conditioner
- Parent ticker
- CSE: HHL.N0000
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Kumarika
Kumarika is Hemas's hair care brand, best known for nourishing hair oils blended with coconut oil and herbs such as gotukola and karapincha, and also sold as shampoos, conditioners and a hair serum. It is the base of Hemas's business in Bangladesh, where the hair oil was relaunched in 2021 and where the group says it holds 17.7 per cent of the value added hair oil market.
Ownership timeline of Kumarika
Where Kumarika sits in Hemas
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Hemas
Hemas controls 10 brands on Brandtree, 8 of them in personal care & beauty.
Also in personal care & beauty
Other brands in shampoo & conditioner, and who owns them
The 59 brands in shampoo & conditioner on Brandtree belong to 34 owners. The largest is Unilever, with 7; Hemas has 2.
About the owner: Hemas
Hemas is a publicly listed company headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, founded in 1948. Brandtree records 10 brands under its control, and it is listed as CSE: HHL.N0000.
Hemas Holdings is a Colombo group incorporated in 1948 that works in three sectors: consumer brands, healthcare and mobility. Consumer brands earned 36.9 per cent of group revenue in the year to 31 March 2026, from household and personal care products made by Hemas Manufacturing, a hair oil business in Bangladesh and Atlas school stationery, and Hemas has proposed buying a stationery maker in Kenya. Healthcare covers pharmaceutical distribution, the drug maker Morison and hospitals. No shareholder controls the company: its four largest each held between 14.8 and 15.7 per cent.
🇱🇰 Kumarika and other Sri Lankan brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 60 brands that began in Sri Lanka. 1 of them (2%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Kumarika is not one of them.
- Ambewela — Lanka Milk Foods 🇱🇰
- Bison — DCSL 🇱🇰
- Cargills Food City — Cargills 🇱🇰
- Causeway Paints — Asian Paints 🇮🇳
- Cinnamon Air — Saffron Aviation 🇱🇰
- Daintee — Sunshine Holdings 🇱🇰
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Kumarika?
The parent company of Kumarika is Hemas, a publicly listed company headquartered in Sri Lanka.
Is Kumarika Sri Lankan?
Yes. Kumarika originated in Sri Lanka and its owner, Hemas, is also headquartered in Sri Lanka.
Is Kumarika still owned by Hemas?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Kumarika is still owned by Hemas. 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] Hemas Holdings PLC Annual Report 2025/26 — Hemas Holdings PLC, Annual report; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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