Who owns Nerdy?
Nerdy is owned by APR (South Korea, KRX: 278470).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: APR Co., Ltd. Business Report (사업보고서) for fiscal year 2025, filed with DART, 23 March 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- APR Co., Ltd. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇰🇷 South Korea, Seoul
- Origin
- 🇰🇷 South Korea, Seoul
- Founded
- 2017
- Category
- Apparel, footwear & accessories › Fashion apparel › Casual & denim
- Parent ticker
- KRX: 278470
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Nerdy
Nerdy is a streetwear brand that APR launched in April 2017 and sells as clothing. APR reports it in an "other" segment together with Photogray, its self-service photo studio chain, and that segment's sales fell from 71.6 billion won in 2024 to 43.2 billion won in 2025, almost all of it in Korea, while cosmetics and devices supplied most of the group's revenue.
Ownership timeline of Nerdy
Where Nerdy sits in APR
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by APR
APR controls 5 brands on Brandtree.
Founded in the 2010s
Other brands in casual & denim, and who owns them
The 134 brands in casual & denim on Brandtree belong to 60 owners. The largest is Azzas 2154, with 8.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Fábula | Azzas 2154 | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Carter's | Carter's | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Duck Head | Oxford Industries | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Cortefiel | Tendam | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| & Other Stories | H&M Group | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| Bershka | Inditex | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| GU | Fast Retailing | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| BSX | Giordano | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong |
About the owner: APR
APR is a publicly listed company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 2014. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as KRX: 278470.
APR is a Seoul beauty company founded in October 2014 by Kim Byung-hoon, its chief executive and largest shareholder with 31.94 per cent of the shares at the end of 2025. It sells skin care, make-up and fragrance under medicube, aprilskin and Forment, and home beauty devices under medicube AGE-R, which its subsidiary APR Factory builds. Listed on KOSPI since February 2024, it had 2025 revenue of 1.53 trillion won, 80 per cent of it from outside Korea.
🇰🇷 Nerdy and other South Korean brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 237 brands that began in South Korea. 12 of them (5%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Nerdy is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Nerdy?
The parent company of Nerdy is APR, a publicly listed company headquartered in South Korea.
Is Nerdy South Korean?
Yes. Nerdy originated in South Korea in 2017 and its owner, APR, is also headquartered in South Korea.
Is Nerdy still owned by APR?
Yes. As of 28 October 2026, Nerdy is still owned by APR. 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] APR Co., Ltd. Business Report (사업보고서) for fiscal year 2025, filed with DART — APR Co., Ltd., Stock exchange filing, published 23 March 2026; retrieved 28 October 2026.
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