Who owns Pasante?
Pasante is owned by Karex (Malaysia, Bursa Malaysia: KAREX), which has owned the brand since 2019.[1][2]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Karex Berhad Annual Report 2025, 28 October 2025. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Karex Berhad reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇲🇾 Malaysia, Port Klang, Selangor
- Origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Category
- Consumer health › Sexual wellness › Condoms & lubricants
- Parent ticker
- Bursa Malaysia: KAREX
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Pasante
Pasante is the British arm of Karex's branded business, acquired in 2019 when the group took over Pasante Healthcare Limited, now a wholly owned subsidiary and a wholesaler of healthcare products. It supplies the National Health Service as well as retail, and has widened beyond condoms and lubricants into premium skincare and diagnostic kits. Karex reports that Pasante cut its carbon emissions by 18.8 per cent between 2022 and 2025, against an industry average of 10 to 15 per cent.
Ownership timeline of Pasante
Where Pasante sits in Karex
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Karex
Karex controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in consumer health.
Also in consumer health
Other brands in condoms & lubricants, and who owns them
The 14 brands in condoms & lubricants on Brandtree belong to 4 owners. The largest is Okamoto Industries, with 7; Karex has 5.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Jelly Monster | Okamoto Industries | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Trojan | Church & Dwight | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Durex | Reckitt | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Okamoto 003 | Okamoto Industries | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Okamoto Groove | Okamoto Industries | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Okamoto Pepe | Okamoto Industries | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Okamoto Zero One (0.01) | Okamoto Industries | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Okamoto Zero Two (0.02) | Okamoto Industries | 🇯🇵 Japan |
About the owner: Karex
Karex is a publicly listed company headquartered in Port Klang, Selangor, Malaysia, founded in 1988. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as Bursa Malaysia: KAREX.
Karex is a Malaysian medical device manufacturer that makes more condoms than any other company in the world, from plants in Port Klang and Johor and a larger one at Hat Yai in Thailand. Most of what it produces carries somebody else's name: it manufactures for global brand owners and for government tender programmes, a business hit in the year to 30 June 2025 by the closure of USAID and the withdrawal of PEPFAR funding. Its own branded manufacturing, led by ONE, Carex and Pasante, overtook tender sales for the first time in the company's history the year before, and it commercialised synthetic condoms during 2025.
🇬🇧 Pasante and other British brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 543 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 282 of them (52%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Pasante among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Pasante?
The parent company of Pasante is Karex, a publicly listed company headquartered in Malaysia.
Is Pasante British or Malaysian?
Pasante originated in the United Kingdom, but it is owned today by Karex, which is headquartered in Malaysia. So Pasante is a British-origin brand under Malaysian ownership.
Since when has Karex owned Pasante?
Karex has owned Pasante since 2019.
Is Pasante still owned by Karex?
Yes. As of 26 September 2026, Pasante is still owned by Karex. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (2) & 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] Karex Berhad Annual Report 2025 — Karex Berhad, Annual report, published 28 October 2025; retrieved 26 September 2026.
- [2] Karex Berhad — our history — Karex Berhad, Official document; retrieved 26 September 2026.
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