Who owns SK-II?
SK-II is owned by Procter & Gamble (the United States, NYSE: PG).[1]
Evidence: The Procter & Gamble Company Form 10-K for fiscal 2026, note 15 - subsequent events, SEC EDGAR. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- The Procter & Gamble Company verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Founded
- 1980
- Category
- Personal care & beauty › Skin care › Facial skin care
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: PG
- Trademark registrant
- Procter & Gamble Company, The (USPTO)
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About SK-II
SK-II is a Japanese prestige skin care brand built around Pitera, a fermented yeast filtrate discovered when researchers noticed that sake brewery workers had unusually soft hands. Procter & Gamble acquired it with Max Factor in 1991 and it is one of the company's highest-priced lines.
What Procter & Gamble's annual report says about SK-II
Sentences about SK-II from Procter & Gamble's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Skin Care net sales increased mid-single digits driven by positive impacts of favorable product mix (due primarily to the increase of the super-premium SK-II brand, which has higher than category-average selling prices) and favorable foreign exchange, partially offset by a unit volume decrease.
How often Procter & Gamble names SK-II 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 less often than it was three years earlier.
Trademark record for SK-II
The USPTO record for the SK-II mark lists Procter & Gamble Company, The as the owner of record (serial number 78555628). That name matches the owner named above.[2]
Ownership timeline of SK-II
- Current owner Procter & Gamble [1] verified
Where SK-II sits in Procter & Gamble
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble controls 38 brands on Brandtree, 23 of them in personal care & beauty.
Also in personal care & beauty
Other brands in facial skin care, and who owns them
The 76 brands in facial skin care on Brandtree belong to 38 owners. The largest is POLA ORBIS, with 6; Procter & Gamble has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| DECENCIA | POLA ORBIS | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Clinique | Estée Lauder | 🇺🇸 United States |
| ANYA | Proya | 🇨🇳 China |
| COSRX | Amorepacific | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Clé de Peau Beauté | Shiseido | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Paula's Choice | Unilever | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| ALBION | KOSÉ | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| O HUI | LG H&H | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
About the owner: Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble is a publicly listed company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, founded in 1837. Brandtree records 38 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: PG.
Procter & Gamble was founded in Cincinnati in 1837 by a candle maker and a soap maker who had married sisters. It deliberately narrowed to around 65 brands in the mid-2010s, selling roughly a hundred others, and now reports through fabric and home care, baby and feminine care, beauty, health care and grooming.
Procter & Gamble: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇯🇵 SK-II and other Japanese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 449 brands that began in Japan. 23 of them (5%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, SK-II among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of SK-II?
The parent company of SK-II is Procter & Gamble, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is SK-II Japanese or American?
SK-II originated in Japan in 1980, but it is owned today by Procter & Gamble, which is headquartered in the United States. So SK-II is a Japanese-origin brand under American ownership.
Is SK-II still owned by Procter & Gamble?
Yes. As of 8 October 2026, SK-II is still owned by Procter & Gamble. 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] The Procter & Gamble Company Form 10-K for fiscal 2026, note 15 - subsequent events — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K; retrieved 16 September 2026.
- [2] USPTO: SK-II, serial 78555628, registration 3138056 — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark registry; retrieved 25 September 2026.
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