Varta is owned by Energizer Holdings (the United States, NYSE: ENR), which acquired the brand on 2 January 2019 from Spectrum Brands, as part of a $2 billion deal that also included Rayovac.[1] Before Energizer Holdings, Varta was owned by Spectrum Brands from 2005 to 2019.[1]
Evidence: Energizer Holdings, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-18, SEC EDGAR, 18 November 2025. Verified from filings; last checked .
Varta is a German battery brand founded in 1887 and one of the leading consumer battery names in Europe. Energizer acquired the consumer battery business from Spectrum Brands in 2019; the industrial and specialist business remains separate.
Sentences about Varta from Energizer Holdings's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
These products are sold globally under the Energizer, Eveready and Rayovac brands, including hearing aid batteries, and the Varta brand in Latin America and Asia Pacific.
We own thousands of Energizer, Rayovac, and Eveready trademarks globally, and license Varta trademarks, which we consider to be of substantial importance and which are used individually or in conjunction with other sub-brand names.
In November 2021, Varta Microbattery GmbH filed a lawsuit against the Company alleging breach of a supply agreement related to zinc-air hearing aid batteries.
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.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Energizer Holdings controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 6 of them in home care.
The 20 brands in batteries & lighting on Brandtree belong to 12 owners. The largest is Signify, with 4; Energizer Holdings has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Cooper Lighting Solutions | Signify | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
| Eveready (India) | Eveready India | 🇮🇳 India |
| Amazon Basics | Amazon | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Anker SOLIX | Anker Innovations | 🇨🇳 China |
| Duracell | Berkshire Hathaway | 🇺🇸 United States |
| BIC Lighter | BIC | 🇫🇷 France |
| Lumishore | Garmin | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Havells | Havells | 🇮🇳 India |
Energizer Holdings is a publicly listed company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, founded in 2015. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: ENR.
Energizer Holdings is the battery and automotive care company left after the 2015 split that created Edgewell Personal Care. Its battery business traces to 1896 and the first commercially sold dry cell, and it bought Rayovac and Varta from Spectrum Brands in 2019.
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Brandtree records a controlling owner for 252 brands that began in Germany. 93 of them (37%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Varta among them.
Energizer bought the Rayovac and Varta consumer battery businesses from Spectrum Brands, consolidating three of the largest battery brands in North America and Europe under one owner. European regulators required Energizer to divest the Varta business in several markets before clearing the deal.
The parent company of Varta is Energizer Holdings, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Varta originated in Germany in 1887, but it is owned today by Energizer Holdings, which is headquartered in the United States. So Varta is a German-origin brand under American ownership.
Energizer Holdings completed its acquisition of Varta on 2 January 2019, after announcing the deal on 15 January 2018. The deal, which also included Rayovac, was valued at $2 billion (enterprise value).
Before Energizer Holdings, Varta was owned by Spectrum Brands from 2005 until 2019.
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, Varta is still owned by Energizer Holdings. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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