Venus is owned by Procter & Gamble (the United States, NYSE: PG), which acquired the brand on 1 October 2005 from The Gillette Company, as part of a $57 billion deal that also included Gillette, Oral-B and Braun.[1][2] Before Procter & Gamble, Venus was owned by The Gillette Company from 2001 to 2005.[2]
Evidence: The Procter & Gamble Company Form 10-K for fiscal 2026, note 15 - subsequent events, SEC EDGAR. Verified from filings; last checked .
Venus is Gillette's razor line for women, launched in 2001 with a handle and cartridge designed for the different angles and pressure of shaving legs rather than a face. It came to Procter & Gamble with the Gillette acquisition in 2005 and is the largest women's wet-shaving brand.
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 USPTO record for the Venus mark lists The Gillette Company LLC as the owner of record (serial number 87661936). A trademark is often held by a group company rather than the listed parent, so the registrant's name can differ from the owner named above.[3]
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Procter & Gamble controls 38 brands on Brandtree, 23 of them in personal care & beauty.
The 15 brands in shaving & razors on Brandtree belong to 9 owners. The largest is Edgewell, with 3; Procter & Gamble has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| PACE | Dorco | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Billie | Edgewell | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Lion Shaving | Lion Match Company | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| BIC Razors | BIC | 🇫🇷 France |
| Astaberry | Cipla | 🇮🇳 India |
| Flamingo | Mammoth Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Philips | Philips | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
| Veet | Reckitt | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
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.
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Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Venus is not one of them.
Procter & Gamble acquired The Gillette Company in an all-stock deal, adding razors, Oral-B and Braun and making it the largest consumer goods company in the world at the time. Regulators required divestitures in electric toothbrushes and deodorants.
The parent company of Venus is Procter & Gamble, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Yes. Venus originated in the United States in 2001 and its owner, Procter & Gamble, is also headquartered in the United States.
Procter & Gamble completed its acquisition of Venus on 1 October 2005, after announcing the deal on 28 January 2005. The deal, which also included Gillette, Oral-B and Braun, was valued at $57 billion.
Before Procter & Gamble, Venus was owned by The Gillette Company from 2001 until 2005.
Yes. As of 25 September 2026, Venus is still owned by Procter & Gamble. 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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