Who owns Nix?
Nix is owned by Prestige Consumer Healthcare (the United States, NYSE: PBH), which has owned the brand since 3 September 2014.[1]
Evidence: Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-05-14, SEC EDGAR, 14 May 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc. verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Tarrytown, New York
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 1990
- Category
- Consumer health › Over-the-counter medicine › Pain relief
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: PBH
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Nix
Nix is a permethrin head lice treatment sold over the counter, and it is the largest brand in a category that sells almost entirely through school outbreaks. Prestige acquired it with a portfolio of brands from Insight Pharmaceuticals in 2014.
How often Prestige Consumer Healthcare names Nix 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 Nix
- 2014 – present Prestige Consumer Healthcare [1] verified
Where Nix sits in Prestige Consumer Healthcare
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Prestige Consumer Healthcare
Prestige Consumer Healthcare controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in consumer health.
Also in consumer health
- Breathe Right
- Chloraseptic (1957)
- Clear Eyes (1963)
- Dramamine (1949)
Other brands in pain relief, and who owns them
The 37 brands in pain relief on Brandtree belong to 21 owners. The largest is Haleon, with 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Advil | Haleon | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Air Salonpas | Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Motrin | Kenvue | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Dafalgan | Taisho Pharmaceutical | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Nicotex | Cipla | 🇮🇳 India |
| Mentho Plus | Emami | 🇮🇳 India |
| Bufferin (United States) | Genomma Lab | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
| Doril | Hypera | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
About the owner: Prestige Consumer Healthcare
Prestige Consumer Healthcare is a publicly listed company headquartered in Tarrytown, New York, United States, founded in 1996. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: PBH.
Prestige Consumer Healthcare buys established over-the-counter medicine brands that larger pharmaceutical companies no longer want to promote, and runs them with low overheads and targeted advertising. Almost its entire portfolio was acquired rather than developed.
Prestige Consumer Healthcare: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Nix 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; Nix is not one of them.
- Advil — Haleon 🇬🇧
- Alka-Seltzer — Bayer 🇩🇪
- Band-Aid — Kenvue 🇺🇸
- Bufferin (United States) — Genomma Lab 🇲🇽
- Doan's — Dr. Reddy's 🇮🇳
- First Response — Church & Dwight 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Nix?
The parent company of Nix is Prestige Consumer Healthcare, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Nix American?
Yes. Nix originated in the United States in 1990 and its owner, Prestige Consumer Healthcare, is also headquartered in the United States.
Since when has Prestige Consumer Healthcare owned Nix?
Prestige Consumer Healthcare has owned Nix since 3 September 2014.
Is Nix still owned by Prestige Consumer Healthcare?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Nix is still owned by Prestige Consumer Healthcare. 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] Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-05-14 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 14 May 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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