Who owns Temu?
Temu is owned by PDD Holdings (Ireland, NASDAQ: PDD).[1]
Evidence: PDD Holdings Inc. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-29, SEC EDGAR, 29 April 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- PDD Holdings Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇮🇪 Ireland, Dublin
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States, Boston, Massachusetts
- Founded
- 2022
- Category
- Internet & digital › Online commerce › Marketplaces
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: PDD
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Temu
Temu is the online marketplace PDD Holdings runs outside China. Its annual report says Temu was founded in Boston, Massachusetts in September 2022 and launched in North America that month, reaching Oceania in March 2023 and Europe in April 2023. It mostly connects merchants in China with consumers abroad. The European Commission designated it a Very Large Online Platform in May 2024 and opened a formal investigation under the Digital Services Act that October.
What PDD Holdings's annual report says about Temu
Sentences about Temu from PDD Holdings's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Following its initial launch in North America in September 2022, Temu expanded to Oceania in March 2023 and Europe in April 2023 and then to other countries and regions worldwide.
As of the end of 2025, Temu was serving consumers in various countries and regions, including the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Canada and Italy, which are among the world's largest economies.
Although at an early stage of development, Temu aspires to become a global online platform dedicated to providing quality products to consumers at attractive prices.
How often PDD Holdings names Temu 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 Temu
- Current owner PDD Holdings [1] verified
Where Temu sits in PDD Holdings
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by PDD Holdings
PDD Holdings controls 3 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
- Duo Duo Grocery (2020)
- Pinduoduo (2015)
Other brands in marketplaces, and who owns them
The 50 brands in marketplaces on Brandtree belong to 21 owners. The largest is Alibaba, with 7; PDD Holdings has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| 1688.com | Alibaba | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong |
| Allegro | Allegro | 🇵🇱 Poland |
| anibis.ch | SMG Swiss Marketplace Group | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| carsales | CAR Group | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Kaspi.kz | Kaspi.kz | 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan |
| Depop | eBay | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Estante Virtual | Magalu | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Mercado Envíos | MercadoLibre | 🇺🇾 Uruguay |
About the owner: PDD Holdings
PDD Holdings is a publicly listed company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, founded in 2015. Brandtree records 3 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: PDD.
PDD Holdings is a Cayman Islands holding company, incorporated in April 2015, whose annual report gives its principal executive offices as Dublin, Ireland, and whose shares trade on Nasdaq as American depositary shares. It runs two online platforms, Pinduoduo in China and Temu elsewhere, which it says share the same value propositions and operating model and both primarily serve merchants in China. Revenue was RMB431.8 billion in 2025. Because Chinese rules restrict foreign investment in e-commerce services, the company says it does not directly own the Pinduoduo platform and has only contractual control over it, through a variable interest entity.
PDD Holdings: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Temu and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Temu among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Temu?
The parent company of Temu is PDD Holdings, a publicly listed company headquartered in Ireland.
Is Temu American or Irish?
Temu originated in the United States in 2022, but it is owned today by PDD Holdings, which is headquartered in Ireland. So Temu is an American-origin brand under Irish ownership.
Is Temu still owned by PDD Holdings?
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, Temu is still owned by PDD Holdings. 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] PDD Holdings Inc. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-29 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 29 April 2026; retrieved 3 October 2026.
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