Who owns Vichy?
Vichy is owned by L'Oréal (France, EPA: OR).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: L'Oréal Universal Registration Document 2025, L'Oréal S.A, 1 March 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- L'Oréal S.A. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇫🇷 France, Clichy
- Origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- Founded
- 1931
- Category
- Personal care & beauty › Skin care › Dermocosmetics & clinical skin care
- Parent ticker
- EPA: OR
- Trademark registrant
- L'Oreal (USPTO)
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Vichy
Vichy is a pharmacy skin care brand founded in 1931 around the mineral-rich thermal water of Vichy, in the French Auvergne. It was among the first cosmetic brands to be sold exclusively through pharmacies, a distribution model that defined the dermocosmetics category L'Oréal now leads.
Trademark record for Vichy
The USPTO record for the Vichy mark lists L'Oreal as the owner of record (serial number 78978493). 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.[2]
Ownership timeline of Vichy
Where Vichy sits in L'Oréal
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by L'Oréal
L'Oréal controls 21 brands on Brandtree, 21 of them in personal care & beauty.
Also in personal care & beauty
- Aesop (1987)
- CeraVe (2005)
- Creed (1760)
- Essie (1981)
- Garnier (1904)
- Kérastase (1964)
- Kiehl's (1851)
- L'Oréal Paris (1909)
- La Roche-Posay (1975)
- Lancôme (1935)
- Matrix (1980)
- Maybelline (1915)
- Mixa (1924)
- NYX Professional Makeup (1999)
- Redken (1960)
- shu uemura (1983)
- SkinCeuticals (1997)
- Thayers (1847)
Other brands in dermocosmetics & clinical skin care, and who owns them
The 42 brands in dermocosmetics & clinical skin care on Brandtree belong to 22 owners. The largest is Ego Pharmaceuticals, with 9; L'Oréal has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| DermAid | Ego Pharmaceuticals | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Biretix | Cantabria Labs | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| A-Derma | Pierre Fabre | 🇫🇷 France |
| Dermalogica | Unilever | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Minon | Daiichi Sankyo Healthcare | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Alastin | Galderma | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| A-Solution | Aekyung | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Eucerin | Beiersdorf | 🇩🇪 Germany |
Every brand in dermocosmetics & clinical skin care and its owner →
About the owner: L'Oréal
L'Oréal is a publicly listed company headquartered in Clichy, France, founded in 1909. Brandtree records 21 brands under its control, and it is listed as EPA: OR.
L'Oréal was founded in 1909 by chemist Eugène Schueller, who had developed a hair dye. It is the largest cosmetics company in the world and is organised into consumer products, luxe, dermatological beauty and professional products. The Bettencourt Meyers family and Nestlé are its two largest shareholders.
🇫🇷 Vichy and other French brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 322 brands that began in France. 100 of them (31%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Vichy is not one of them.
- A-Derma — Pierre Fabre 🇫🇷
- Axe — Unilever 🇬🇧
- BIC Razors — BIC 🇫🇷
- Bioderma — NAOS 🇫🇷
- Botot — Bolton Group 🇮🇹
- Chanel No. 5 — Chanel 🇬🇧
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Vichy?
The parent company of Vichy is L'Oréal, a publicly listed company headquartered in France.
Is Vichy French?
Yes. Vichy originated in France in 1931 and its owner, L'Oréal, is also headquartered in France.
Is Vichy still owned by L'Oréal?
Yes. As of 28 September 2026, Vichy is still owned by L'Oréal. 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] L'Oréal Universal Registration Document 2025 — L'Oréal S.A., Annual report, published 1 March 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
- [2] USPTO: VICHY, serial 78978493 — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark registry; retrieved 28 September 2026.
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