Who owns Sunsilk?
Sunsilk is owned by Unilever (the United Kingdom, LSE: ULVR).[1]
Evidence: Unilever PLC Annual Report on Form 20-F for 2025, SEC EDGAR, 12 March 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Unilever PLC verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, London
- Origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1954
- Category
- Personal care & beauty › Hair care › Shampoo & conditioner
- Parent ticker
- LSE: ULVR NYSE: UL AEX: UNA
- Trademark registrant
- UNILEVER IP HOLDINGS B.V. (USPTO)
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Sunsilk
Sunsilk is a hair care brand Unilever launched in the United Kingdom in 1954, one of the first shampoos sold on the promise of manageability rather than cleaning alone. It is now sold predominantly in Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, where it is among the largest shampoo brands by volume.
What Unilever's annual report says about Sunsilk
Sentences about Sunsilk from Unilever's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Meanwhile, Sunsilk and Clear were impacted by softness in several emerging markets and deliberate tail brand portfolio rationalisation.
How often Unilever names Sunsilk 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.
Trademark record for Sunsilk
The USPTO record for the Sunsilk mark lists UNILEVER IP HOLDINGS B.V. as the owner of record (serial number 87649869). That name matches the owner named above.[2]
Ownership timeline of Sunsilk
Where Sunsilk sits in Unilever
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
- Axe
- Bango
- Brut
- Cif
- Clear
- Close-Up
- Colman's
- Comfort
- Degree
- Dermalogica
- Domestos
- Dove
- Dove Men+Care
- Grüns (80%)
- Hellmann's
- Horlicks
- Hourglass Cosmetics
- Impulse
- Kate Somerville
- Knorr
- Lifebuoy
- Liquid I.V.
- Living Proof
- Lux
- Lynx
- Maizena
- Marmite
- Murad
- Nexxus
- Nutrafol
- OMO
- Paula's Choice
- Pepsodent
- Persil
- Pond's
- Pot Noodle
- Radox
- Rexona
- Royco
- SheaMoisture
- Signal
- Simple
- St. Ives
- Suave (outside the United States and Canada)
- Sunlight
- Sunsilk
- Sure
- Tatcha
- The Vegetarian Butcher
- TRESemmé
- Vaseline
- VO5
- Zendium
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Other brands owned by Unilever
Unilever controls 53 brands on Brandtree, 34 of them in personal care & beauty.
Also in personal care & beauty
- Axe (1983)
- Brut (1964)
- Clear (1974)
- Close-Up (1967)
- Degree (1990)
- Dermalogica (1986)
- Dove (1957)
- Dove Men+Care (2010)
- Hourglass Cosmetics (2004)
- Impulse (1972)
- Kate Somerville (2004)
- Lifebuoy (1894)
- Living Proof (2005)
- Lux (1899)
- Lynx (1985)
- Murad (1989)
- Nexxus (1979)
- Paula's Choice (1995)
Founded in the 1950s
Other brands in shampoo & conditioner, and who owns them
Unilever has more brands in shampoo & conditioner on Brandtree than any other owner: 7 of 56.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Alpist | Aekyung | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Brillare | Emami | 🇮🇳 India |
| Garnier | L'Oréal | 🇫🇷 France |
| Aujua | Milbon | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Movit | Movit | 🇺🇬 Uganda |
| Head & Shoulders | Procter & Gamble | 🇺🇸 United States |
| SebiRinse | Ego Pharmaceuticals | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Tío Nacho | Genomma Lab | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
About the owner: Unilever
Unilever is a publicly listed company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, founded in 1929. Brandtree records 53 brands under its control, and it is listed as LSE: ULVR, NYSE: UL and AEX: UNA.
Unilever is a British consumer goods company formed in 1929 by the merger of Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie and British soap maker Lever Brothers. It reports through four business groups: Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care, Home Care and Foods. Its ice cream business was demerged as The Magnum Ice Cream Company in December 2025.
🇬🇧 Sunsilk and other British brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 552 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 291 of them (53%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Sunsilk is not one of them.
- Andrex — Kimberly-Clark 🇺🇸
- Batiste — Church & Dwight 🇺🇸
- Charlotte Tilbury — Puig 🇪🇸
- Childs Farm — PZ Cussons 🇬🇧
- Creed — L'Oréal 🇫🇷
- Cushelle — Essity 🇸🇪
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Sunsilk?
The parent company of Sunsilk is Unilever, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Is Sunsilk British?
Yes. Sunsilk originated in the United Kingdom in 1954 and its owner, Unilever, is also headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Is Sunsilk still owned by Unilever?
Yes. As of 8 October 2026, Sunsilk is still owned by Unilever. 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] Unilever PLC Annual Report on Form 20-F for 2025 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 12 March 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
- [2] USPTO: SUNSILK, serial 87649869, registration 5528401 — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark registry; retrieved 26 September 2026.
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