Who owns Tork?
Tork is owned by Essity (Sweden, STO: ESSITY-B).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Essity Annual Report 2025, Essity AB. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Essity AB reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇸🇪 Sweden, Stockholm
- Origin
- 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Founded
- 1968
- Category
- Personal care & beauty › Tissue & paper hygiene › Facial tissue & toilet paper
- Parent ticker
- STO: ESSITY-B
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Tork
Tork is Essity's professional hygiene brand, supplying dispensers, paper towels and soap to offices, restaurants and hospitals rather than to households. It is the largest brand of its kind in Europe and a substantial share of the company's revenue. Selling the dispenser locks in the refill, which is the economics that makes the category attractive.
Ownership timeline of Tork
Where Tork sits in Essity
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Essity
Essity controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in personal care & beauty.
Also in personal care & beauty
Other brands in facial tissue & toilet paper, and who owns them
The 34 brands in facial tissue & toilet paper on Brandtree belong to 14 owners. The largest is Sofidel, with 7; Essity has 3.
About the owner: Essity
Essity is a publicly listed company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in 2017. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as STO: ESSITY-B.
Essity was created in 2017 when the Swedish forestry group SCA separated its hygiene business from its forest products, and it is one of the largest tissue and hygiene companies in the world. Its brands lead in feminine care, incontinence and consumer tissue across Europe and Latin America.
🇸🇪 Tork and other Swedish brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 117 brands that began in Sweden. 53 of them (45%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Tork is not one of them.
- Byredo — Puig 🇪🇸
- & Other Stories — H&M Group 🇸🇪
- AXA — Lantmännen 🇸🇪
- Absolut — Pernod Ricard 🇫🇷
- Acast — Acast 🇸🇪
- Aftonbladet — Schibsted Media 🇳🇴
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Tork?
The parent company of Tork is Essity, a publicly listed company headquartered in Sweden.
Is Tork Swedish?
Yes. Tork originated in Sweden in 1968 and its owner, Essity, is also headquartered in Sweden.
Is Tork still owned by Essity?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Tork is still owned by Essity. 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] Essity Annual Report 2025 — Essity AB, Annual report; retrieved 28 September 2026.
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