Who owns Pope?
Pope is owned by Griffon (the United States, NYSE: GFF).[1]
Evidence: Griffon Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-19, SEC EDGAR, 19 November 2025. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Griffon Corporation verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, New York
- Origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Category
- Home, garden & DIY › Home improvement › Lawn & garden
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: GFF
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Pope
Pope is an Australian provider of residential watering products. Griffon's 10-K states that on 1 July 2024 it announced that its AMES subsidiary was expanding its Australian operations by acquiring substantially all the assets of Pope from The Toro Company for about AUD 21.8 million in cash, so the brand left Toro and now belongs to Griffon.
What Griffon's annual report says about Pope
Sentences about Pope from Griffon's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Pope generated over $25,000 in revenue in its first full year of operations.
In 2025, gross profit did not include any nonrecurring charges; however, in 2024, gross profit included restructuring charges of $35,806 and amortization of $491 related to the fair value step-up of acquired inventory sold in connection with the Pope acquisition.
In 2024, gross profit also included amortization of $491 related to the fair value step-up of acquired inventory sold in connection with the Pope acquisition.
How often Griffon names Pope 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 more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Pope
Where Pope sits in Griffon
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Griffon
Griffon controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in home, garden & diy.
Also in home, garden & diy
Other brands in lawn & garden, and who owns them
The 29 brands in lawn & garden on Brandtree belong to 17 owners. The largest is Bioceres, with 5; Griffon has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bioceres Semillas | Bioceres | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Flymo | Husqvarna Group | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| Hayter | Toro | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Dolphin | Maytronics | 🇮🇱 Israel |
| Miracle-Gro | Scotts Miracle-Gro | 🇺🇸 United States |
| BASF Agricultural Solutions | BASF | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Roundup | Bayer | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Pennington | Central Garden & Pet | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Griffon
Griffon is a publicly listed company headquartered in New York, United States. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: GFF.
Griffon Corporation is a New York holding company with two segments, Home and Building Products (Clopay garage doors) and Consumer and Professional Products (AMES tools, Hunter Fan, ClosetMaid and others). This page lists only the brands whose origins its fiscal 2025 10-K or subsidiary list supports. Its Pope brand was bought from The Toro Company in 2024.
🇦🇺 Pope and other Australian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 203 brands that began in Australia. 59 of them (29%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Pope among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Pope?
The parent company of Pope is Griffon, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Pope Australian or American?
Pope originated in Australia, but it is owned today by Griffon, which is headquartered in the United States. So Pope is an Australian-origin brand under American ownership.
Is Pope still owned by Griffon?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Pope is still owned by Griffon. 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] Griffon Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-19 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 19 November 2025; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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