Pilot: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Pilot (TSE: 7846) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan that owns 9 consumer brands.[1]
PILOT CORPORATION is a Japanese writing-instrument maker headquartered in Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market (code 7846). Its corporate profile gives 27 January 1918 as the start of operations, when Ryosuke Namiki and Masao Wada founded Namiki Manufacturing, and 4 January 2002 as the foundation date of the current company; consolidated sales were 126,391 million yen in the year ended December 2025. It also makes toys, rings, and ceramic parts, and its history page says Mark's Group Holdings became a subsidiary in 2021. Pilot Corporation of America and other overseas companies are its sales and manufacturing subsidiaries (not separate brand owners). Brand launch years are from the company history page. Pilot's Namiki fountain-pen line has its own site and is not listed here because no launch date was found.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- PILOT CORPORATION (also Pilot Pen, Pilot Corp)
- Type
- publicly listed company · see all publicly listed company owners
- Headquarters
- 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan
- Founded
- 1918
- Tickers
- TSE: 7846
- Website
- www.pilot.co.jp/english/
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
Pilot in numbers
- Pilot owns 9 consumer brands tracked here across 1 top-level categories; the largest is home care with 9 brands.[1]
Everything Pilot owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Brand portfolio by category
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Frequently asked questions
What brands does Pilot own?
Pilot owns 9 consumer brands tracked here, including MARK'S, Capless, FriXion, Juice, Dr. Grip and G-2.
Is Pilot a Japanese company?
Yes. Pilot is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and was founded in 1918.
Who owns Pilot?
Pilot is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as 7846 on the TSE.
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] PILOT CORPORATION: History (corporate website) — PILOT CORPORATION, Official document; retrieved 3 October 2026.
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