Polident is owned by Haleon (the United Kingdom, LSE: HLN), which was separated from GSK on 18 July 2022.[1][2] Before Haleon, Polident was owned by GSK from 2000 to 2022.[2]
Evidence: Haleon plc Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-03-13, SEC EDGAR, 13 March 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Polident makes denture cleansers and adhesives, sold as Corega across much of Europe and Latin America and paired with the Poligrip adhesive line. It is one of the largest denture care brands worldwide.
Sentences about Polident from Haleon's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
High-single digit growth in Oral Health was supported by strong growth from Sensodyne, Polident/Poligrip and parodontax.
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.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Haleon controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in personal care & beauty.
The 42 brands in toothpaste & toothbrushes on Brandtree belong to 23 owners. The largest is Colgate-Palmolive, with 5; Haleon has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Colgate | Colgate-Palmolive | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Desensin | Dentaid | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| Close-Up | Unilever | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Pepsodent (United States) | Church & Dwight | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Bioniq | Dr. Wolff Group | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| CLINICA | Lion | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Elgydium | Pierre Fabre | 🇫🇷 France |
| Crest | Procter & Gamble | 🇺🇸 United States |
Haleon is a publicly listed company headquartered in Weybridge, United Kingdom, founded in 2022. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control, and it is listed as LSE: HLN and NYSE: HLN.
Haleon is the consumer health business demerged from GSK in July 2022, having earlier absorbed Pfizer's consumer health portfolio through a joint venture. It is the largest standalone consumer health company in the world, built on oral health, pain relief, respiratory health and vitamins.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Polident among them.
GSK demerged its consumer healthcare business as Haleon, listing it in London and New York in July 2022. The business already contained Pfizer's consumer health portfolio, contributed to a joint venture in 2019, which is how Advil and Centrum came to sit alongside Sensodyne and Panadol.
The parent company of Polident is Haleon, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Polident originated in the United States in 1938, but it is owned today by Haleon, which is headquartered in the United Kingdom. So Polident is an American-origin brand under British ownership.
Haleon has owned Polident since 18 July 2022.
Before Haleon, Polident was owned by GSK from 2000 until 2022.
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Polident is still owned by Haleon. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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