Who owns Zewa?
Zewa 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
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- Founded
- 1958
- Category
- Personal care & beauty › Tissue & paper hygiene › Facial tissue & toilet paper
- Parent ticker
- STO: ESSITY-B
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Zewa
Zewa is a household paper brand sold in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and central and eastern Europe, covering kitchen towel, toilet tissue and handkerchiefs. It is one of the leading tissue brands in German-speaking markets. Essity owns it, and the company sells the same products under different national names across Europe.
Ownership timeline of Zewa
Where Zewa 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
Founded in the 1950s
- JOBST (1950)
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.
🇩🇪 Zewa and other German brands
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, Zewa among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Zewa?
The parent company of Zewa is Essity, a publicly listed company headquartered in Sweden.
Is Zewa German or Swedish?
Zewa originated in Germany in 1958, but it is owned today by Essity, which is headquartered in Sweden. So Zewa is a German-origin brand under Swedish ownership.
Is Zewa still owned by Essity?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Zewa 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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