Ziploc is owned by SC Johnson (the United States), which acquired the brand in 1998 for $1.2 billion.[1][2][3] Ziploc was founded in 1968 in the United States and was independent until 1998.
Evidence: SC Johnson — our products and brands, S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. Last checked .
Ziploc resealable bags were introduced in 1968, using an interlocking plastic zipper that had been invented in Denmark two decades earlier for other purposes. SC Johnson acquired the brand from DowBrands in 1998, and the name is often used generically for the format.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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SC Johnson controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 8 of them in home care.
The 16 brands in food storage on Brandtree belong to 8 owners. The largest is Melitta, with 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Cuki | Melitta | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Hefty | Reynolds Consumer Products | 🇺🇸 United States |
| YETI | YETI | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Glad | Clorox | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Coleman | Newell Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Snapware | Corelle Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Tupperware | Tupperware Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Domopak | Melitta | 🇩🇪 Germany |
SC Johnson is a family-owned company headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin, United States, founded in 1886. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control.
SC Johnson has been owned and run by five generations of the Johnson family since 1886, when it began selling parquet flooring and then the wax to care for it. It publishes no financial statements.
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; Ziploc is not one of them.
S.C. Johnson & Son bought the DowBrands consumer products business from Dow Chemical in January 1998 for $1.2 billion, a sale on which Dow booked a pretax gain of $816 million. The business brought Ziploc, Saran, Scrubbing Bubbles and fantastik to SC Johnson in a single transaction. Only the year is recorded here.
The parent company of Ziploc is SC Johnson, a family-owned company headquartered in the United States.
Yes. Ziploc originated in the United States in 1968 and its owner, SC Johnson, is also headquartered in the United States.
SC Johnson completed its acquisition of Ziploc in 1998. The deal was valued at $1.2 billion (enterprise value).
Ziploc was an independent company from its founding in 1968 until SC Johnson acquired it in 1998.
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Ziploc is still owned by SC Johnson. 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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