Who owns Monopoly?
Monopoly is owned by Hasbro (the United States, NASDAQ: HAS).[1]
Evidence: Hasbro, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-25, SEC EDGAR, 25 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Hasbro, Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 1935
- Category
- Home care › Household goods & storage › Writing instruments & office
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: HAS
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Monopoly
Monopoly was published by Parker Brothers in 1935, having been developed from The Landlord's Game, a board game designed by Elizabeth Magie in 1904 to demonstrate the harm caused by land monopolies. The published version dropped that argument entirely. Hasbro owns it, and the origin was obscured for decades before historians established it.
What Hasbro's annual report says about Monopoly
Sentences about Monopoly from Hasbro's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Digital licensing was once again led by Monopoly Go!, a mobile game from our partners at Scopely, Inc., and remains a meaningful contributor to licensing revenues.
How often Hasbro names Monopoly 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.
Ownership timeline of Monopoly
Where Monopoly sits in Hasbro
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Hasbro
Hasbro controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 6 of them in home care.
Also in home care
- Dungeons & Dragons (1974)
- Magic: The Gathering (1993)
- Nerf (1969)
- Play-Doh (1956)
- Transformers (1984)
Other brands in writing instruments & office, and who owns them
The 69 brands in writing instruments & office on Brandtree belong to 20 owners. The largest is F.I.L.A., with 15; Hasbro has 6.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Arches | F.I.L.A. | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Acroball | Pilot | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| American Girl | Mattel | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Creepy Crawlers | JAKKS Pacific | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Flair | Flair | 🇮🇳 India |
| Éxito | Ledesma | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Colokit | Thien Long Group | 🇻🇳 Vietnam |
| Funko | Funko | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Hasbro
Hasbro is a publicly listed company headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States, founded in 1923. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: HAS.
Hasbro was founded by the Hassenfeld brothers in Rhode Island in 1923 selling textile remnants, and moved into toys with Mr. Potato Head in 1952, the first toy advertised on television. It now depends heavily on brands it can license into films, television and games rather than on toy sales alone.
🇺🇸 Monopoly and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,550 brands that began in the United States. 479 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Monopoly is not one of them.
- 3-IN-ONE — WD-40 Company 🇺🇸
- Air Wick — Reckitt 🇬🇧
- Ajax — Colgate-Palmolive 🇺🇸
- All-Clad — Groupe SEB 🇫🇷
- Amazon Basics — Amazon 🇺🇸
- American Girl — Mattel 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Monopoly?
The parent company of Monopoly is Hasbro, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Monopoly American?
Yes. Monopoly originated in the United States in 1935 and its owner, Hasbro, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Monopoly still owned by Hasbro?
Yes. As of 11 October 2026, Monopoly is still owned by Hasbro. 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] Hasbro, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-25 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 25 February 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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