Who owns QAIS?
QAIS is owned by Sunstar (Switzerland).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Sunstar Group — Our Story, Sunstar Suisse S.A. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Sunstar Suisse S.A. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland, Etoy
- Origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Founded
- 2019
- Category
- Home care › Air care & pest control › Air freshener
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About QAIS
QAIS is Sunstar's air quality brand, and its QAIS-air-01 unit for hospitals, nurseries and other care settings uses a photocatalytic system the company calls TMiP to break bacteria and viruses down into water and carbon dioxide while removing smells. It followed Sunstar's 2017 purchase of U-Vix, the company that developed the deodorisation technology.
Ownership timeline of QAIS
Where QAIS sits in Sunstar
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Sunstar
Sunstar controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 2 of them in home care.
Also in home care
Other brands in air freshener, and who owns them
The 11 brands in air freshener on Brandtree belong to 9 owners. The largest is S.T. Corporation, with 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Sawaday | Kobayashi Pharmaceutical | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Dashutan Charcoal | S.T. Corporation | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Little Trees | Car-Freshner | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Kaori | Dinant | 🇭🇳 Honduras |
| Febreze | Procter & Gamble | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Air Wick | Reckitt | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Glade | SC Johnson | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Spring | Square Toiletries | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh |
About the owner: Sunstar
Sunstar is a privately held company headquartered in Etoy, Switzerland, founded in 1932. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control.
Sunstar is a privately held group run by the Kaneda family, with its global headquarters at Etoy in Switzerland and its Japanese headquarters at Takatsuki near Osaka, where Kunio Kaneda founded it in 1932 selling rubber cement in a portable metal tube for mending bicycle tyres. It moved into oral care in 1946 with toothpaste in a tube, and the Sunstar name was coined as a reminder to brush with the sun in the morning and the stars at night. It employs about 4,000 people in 21 countries and runs a consumer oral care business and an industrial one making adhesives, sealants and motorcycle parts.
🇯🇵 QAIS 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, QAIS among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of QAIS?
The parent company of QAIS is Sunstar, a privately held company headquartered in Switzerland.
Is QAIS Japanese or Swiss?
QAIS originated in Japan in 2019, but it is owned today by Sunstar, which is headquartered in Switzerland. So QAIS is a Japanese-origin brand under Swiss ownership.
Is QAIS still owned by Sunstar?
Yes. As of 27 September 2026, QAIS is still owned by Sunstar. 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] Sunstar Group — Our Story — Sunstar Suisse S.A., Official document; retrieved 27 September 2026.
- [2] Sunstar Group — Chemical and Material Core brands — Sunstar Suisse S.A., Official document; retrieved 27 September 2026.
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