Method is owned by SC Johnson (the United States), which acquired the brand in 2018.[1][2][3] Method was founded in 2000 in San Francisco and was independent until 2018.
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Method makes design-led household cleaning products, founded in San Francisco in 2000 by two friends who thought cleaning products were ugly and unnecessarily toxic, and whose teardrop dish soap bottle was designed to be left out on the counter. SC Johnson acquired it with Ecover in 2017.
SC Johnson is a family-owned company headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin, United States, founded in 1886. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control.
SC Johnson has been owned and run by five generations of the Johnson family since 1886, when it began selling parquet flooring and then the wax to care for it. It publishes no financial statements.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States.
478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Method is not one of them.
SC Johnson agreed in September 2017 to buy Method and Ecover from People Against Dirty, and completed the purchase in 2018 after clearing regulators in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany. The company said at the time that, being privately held, it does not disclose financial details of its transactions, and it never has. Only the year of completion is recorded here.
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