Who owns Philips Avent?
Philips Avent is owned by Philips (the Netherlands, AEX: PHIA).[1]
Evidence: Koninklijke Philips N.V. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-02-19, SEC EDGAR, 19 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Koninklijke Philips N.V. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands, Amsterdam
- Origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1984 by Edward Atkin
- Category
- Personal care & beauty › Baby care › Baby feeding & nursing
- Parent ticker
- AEX: PHIA NYSE: PHG
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Philips Avent
Philips Avent is the baby feeding brand that began in 1984, when Edward Atkin, a new parent frustrated by narrow bottles and hard teats, launched a redesigned bottle and silicone teat. It is now the core of Philips' Mother and Child Care business, 11 per cent of Personal Health sales, covering breast pumps, bottles, sterilisers, baby monitors and the Pregnancy+ app. In 2025 Philips introduced the Avent Hands-Free Breast Pump, and its Ultra Soother pacifiers moved to 80 per cent plant-based materials.
Ownership timeline of Philips Avent
Where Philips Avent sits in Philips
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Philips
Philips controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in personal care & beauty.
Also in personal care & beauty
Other brands in baby feeding & nursing, and who owns them
The 14 brands in baby feeding & nursing on Brandtree belong to 6 owners. The largest is Artsana, with 5.
About the owner: Philips
Philips is a publicly listed company headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1891. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as AEX: PHIA and NYSE: PHG.
Royal Philips began as the limited partnership Philips & Co in Eindhoven in 1891 and is now a health technology company headquartered in Amsterdam, listed on Euronext Amsterdam and the New York Stock Exchange. Of its EUR 17.8 billion of sales in 2025, EUR 3.7 billion came from Personal Health, the consumer segment behind its shavers, Sonicare toothbrushes and Avent baby products. Its former lighting business is now Signify, and its domestic appliances business is reported as a discontinued operation.
🇬🇧 Philips Avent and other British brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 571 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 297 of them (52%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Philips Avent among them.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Philips Avent?
The parent company of Philips Avent is Philips, a publicly listed company headquartered in the Netherlands.
Is Philips Avent British or Dutch?
Philips Avent originated in the United Kingdom in 1984, but it is owned today by Philips, which is headquartered in the Netherlands. So Philips Avent is a British-origin brand under Dutch ownership.
Is Philips Avent still owned by Philips?
Yes. As of 29 October 2026, Philips Avent is still owned by Philips. 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] Koninklijke Philips N.V. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-02-19 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 19 February 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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