Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States that owns 38 consumer brands across 4 categories, and has 4 recorded transactions.[1][2]
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.
Read from Procter & Gamble's latest annual filing[1]. Each line gives the sentence the filing uses, copied word for word.
The Company's product categories are organized into five SBUs and five reportable segments (under U.S. GAAP): Beauty; Grooming; Health Care; Fabric & Home Care; and Baby, Feminine & Family Care.
On August 4, 2026, the Company entered into an agreement to acquire Thorne, a premium wellness and supplement brand in the vitamins, minerals and supplements category for $3.8 billion.
Headline figures from Procter & Gamble's annual reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, in USD as reported, fiscal years ending 2021–2026. Revenue moved from $76.1bn to $87bn, an average of 2.7% a year (calculated).
| Fiscal year ended | Revenue | Operating income | Operating margin | Net income | Total assets | Long-term debt | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $87bn | $19.7bn | 22.7% | $16bn | $126.5bn | $22.8bn | 10-K | |
| $84.3bn | $20.5bn | 24.3% | $16bn | $125.2bn | $25bn | 10-K | |
| $84bn | $18.5bn | 22.1% | $14.9bn | $122.4bn | $25.3bn | 10-K | |
| $82bn | $18.1bn | 22.1% | $14.7bn | $120.8bn | $24.4bn | 10-K | |
| $80.2bn | $17.8bn | 22.2% | $14.7bn | $117.2bn | $22.8bn | 10-K | |
| $76.1bn | $18bn | 23.6% | $14.3bn | $119.3bn | $23.1bn | 10-K |
Source: SEC XBRL company facts. A dash means the company did not report that line in a form we could read. Figures for a year can be restated in a later filing; the latest filing's number is shown.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Procter & Gamble agreed to buy Thorne, the supplements company that L Catterton took private in 2023, from L Catterton's Flagship Fund. P&G's annual report puts the transaction at $3.8 billion. It would be one of P&G's largest acquisitions in years and a move into vitamins and supplements, a category it had largely left.
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.
Procter & Gamble transferred 41 beauty brands, including CoverGirl, Max Factor, Clairol and Wella, to Coty in a Reverse Morris Trust structured to be tax-efficient for P&G shareholders. It was the largest single step in P&G's programme of cutting its portfolio from about 170 brands to 65.
Berkshire Hathaway acquired Duracell from Procter & Gamble in a share exchange worth about $4.7 billion, handing back its P&G stock rather than paying cash. Structuring it as an exchange avoided a large capital gains charge on shares Berkshire had held since the Gillette merger.
Procter & Gamble controlled these 7 brands in the past. Each row shows when the ownership ended and who holds the brand now, so a page that once said Procter & Gamble owned it still shows why it no longer does.
| Brand | Owned until | Owner today |
|---|---|---|
| CoverGirl | Oct 2016 | Coty |
| Max Factor | Oct 2016 | Coty |
| Clairol | Oct 2016 | Coty |
| Wella Professionals | Oct 2016 | KKR |
| Pringles | May 2012 | Mars |
| Folgers | Nov 2008 | J.M. Smucker |
| Jif | Jun 2002 | J.M. Smucker |
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) keeps an open register of legal entities. Each entity reports its own parents. We show it as a cross-check on the ownership recorded on this page, which is built from filings.
The documents behind the figures on this page, as listed in the SEC's EDGAR index. Each links to the filing itself.
| Filed | Form | What it declares |
|---|---|---|
| 8-K | Results of a shareholder vote | |
| 8-K | Regulation FD disclosure | |
| 8-K | Regulation FD disclosure | |
| 8-K | Departure or appointment of directors or officers; Regulation FD disclosure | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition | |
| 8-K | Regulation FD disclosure | |
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Regulation FD disclosure | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition | |
| 8-K | Regulation FD disclosure | |
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Regulation FD disclosure | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition | |
| 8-K | Regulation FD disclosure |
22 recall notices from government regulators matched to Procter & Gamble. Each applies to the specific products, sizes and lot codes named in the notice, not to every product sold under the name.
Reason given: The outer packaging meant to prevent access to the contents can split open near the zipper track, posing a risk of serious injury to children and other vulnerable populations if…
Reason given: Illegible Label
Recalling firm: The Procter & Gamble Company
Reason given: Chemical contamination: presence of benzene
Recalling firm: The Procter & Gamble Company · Brand: Old Spice
Reason given: CGMP Deviation; manufactured at the same facility where other lots were found to be contaminated with benzene
Recalling firm: The Procter & Gamble Company · Brand: Old Spice
Reason given: Chemical contamination: presence of benzene
Recalling firm: The Procter & Gamble Company · Brand: Old Spice
Matched automatically from FDA, USDA FSIS, UK Food Standards Agency and CPSC records only when the recalling firm corresponds to this ownership record and, for a brand, the brand name appears in the product description. Check the linked notice for exact products and lots. Method.
Procter & Gamble owns 38 consumer brands tracked here, including Tide, Pepto-Bismol, Old Spice, Metamucil, Vicks and Braun.
Yes. Procter & Gamble is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States and was founded in 1837.
Procter & Gamble is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as PG on the NYSE.
The most recent completed acquisition recorded here is Gillette, Oral-B, Braun and Venus on 1 October 2005.
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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