Murad is owned by Unilever (the United Kingdom, LSE: ULVR), which acquired the brand on 1 July 2015.[1][2] Murad was founded in 1989 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 .
Murad was founded in 1989 by dermatologist Howard Murad, one of the first doctors to build a consumer skin care line on his own clinical practice and to argue publicly for treating skin through diet and supplements as well as topically. Unilever acquired the company in 2015.
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 USPTO record for the Murad mark lists UNILEVER IP HOLDINGS B.V. as the owner of record (serial number 87064224). That name matches the owner named above.[3]
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Unilever controls 53 brands on Brandtree, 34 of them in personal care & beauty.
The 42 brands in dermocosmetics & clinical skin care on Brandtree belong to 22 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 |
| A-Solution | Aekyung | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Eucerin | Beiersdorf | 🇩🇪 Germany |
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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 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Murad among them.
Unilever acquired Murad, a dermatologist-founded skincare brand, as one of the first purchases for what became its Prestige division. The price was not disclosed, which is true of almost every brand Unilever bought for that division.
The parent company of Murad is Unilever, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Murad originated in the United States in 1989, but it is owned today by Unilever, which is headquartered in the United Kingdom. So Murad is an American-origin brand under British ownership.
Unilever completed its acquisition of Murad on 1 July 2015, after announcing the deal on 1 July 2015. The price was not disclosed.
Murad was an independent company from its founding in 1989 until Unilever acquired it in 2015.
Yes. As of 26 September 2026, Murad is still owned by Unilever. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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