Who owns Juice?
Juice is owned by Pilot (Japan, TSE: 7846).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: PILOT CORPORATION: History (corporate website). Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- PILOT CORPORATION reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇯🇵 Japan, Tokyo
- Origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Founded
- 2012
- Category
- Home care › Household goods & storage › Writing instruments & office
- Parent ticker
- TSE: 7846
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Juice
Juice is a retractable ballpoint pen using water-based pigment gel ink, launched by Pilot in 2012 per its history page. A successor, Juice up, followed in 2016 with new pigment ink and a Synergy Tip for fine writing. The first-half 2026 results summary names the Juice series among products with higher sales in Japan.
Ownership timeline of Juice
Where Juice sits in Pilot
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Pilot
Pilot controls 9 brands on Brandtree, 9 of them in home care.
Also in home care
Other brands in writing instruments & office, and who owns them
The 56 brands in writing instruments & office on Brandtree belong to 16 owners. The largest is F.I.L.A., with 15; Pilot has 7.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Arches | F.I.L.A. | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Dungeons & Dragons | Hasbro | 🇺🇸 United States |
| American Girl | Mattel | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Flair | Flair | 🇮🇳 India |
| Éxito | Ledesma | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| LEGO | The LEGO Group | 🇩🇰 Denmark |
| C3 | DOMS | 🇮🇳 India |
| Paper Mate | Newell Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Pilot
Pilot is a publicly listed company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1918. Brandtree records 9 brands under its control, and it is listed as TSE: 7846.
PILOT CORPORATION is a Japanese writing-instrument maker headquartered in Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market (code 7846). Its corporate profile gives 27 January 1918 as the start of operations, when Ryosuke Namiki and Masao Wada founded Namiki Manufacturing, and 4 January 2002 as the foundation date of the current company; consolidated sales were 126,391 million yen in the year ended December 2025. It also makes toys, rings, and ceramic parts, and its history page says Mark's Group Holdings became a subsidiary in 2021. Pilot Corporation of America and other overseas companies are its sales and manufacturing subsidiaries (not separate brand owners). Brand launch years are from the company history page. Pilot's Namiki fountain-pen line has its own site and is not listed here because no launch date was found.
🇯🇵 Juice and other Japanese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 437 brands that began in Japan. 21 of them (5%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Juice is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Juice?
The parent company of Juice is Pilot, a publicly listed company headquartered in Japan.
Is Juice Japanese?
Yes. Juice originated in Japan in 2012 and its owner, Pilot, is also headquartered in Japan.
Is Juice still owned by Pilot?
Yes. As of 3 October 2026, Juice is still owned by Pilot. 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] PILOT CORPORATION: History (corporate website) — PILOT CORPORATION, Official document; retrieved 3 October 2026.
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