Trademark Owners Directory
Browse 109 notable trademark owners. Each profile includes UK filing data, brand portfolios, and links to individual trademark case studies in our wiki.
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Abbott
Abbott Laboratories was founded in 1888 by Wallace Calvin Abbott in Chicago, Illinois, and is headquartered in Abbott Park, Illinois. It develops diagnostics, m…
Adidas
Adidas AG traces to Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik in Herzogenaurach, Germany — Adolf Dassler registered the adidas name after a post-war split from his brother, …
Airbnb
Airbnb, Inc. was founded in 2008 in San Francisco by Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk, and is headquartered in San Francisco. It operates an onl…
AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel N.V. formed from the 1993 merger of Dutch Akzo and Swedish Nobel Industries, with headquarters in Amsterdam. It is a major global paints and coatings …
Aldi
Aldi is the retail brand of Aldi Süd (and separately Aldi Nord in some territories), emerging from the 1946 split of the Albrecht brothers' discount grocery mod…
Amazon
Amazon.com, Inc. began in 1994 in Seattle as an online bookstore before becoming a global e-commerce, cloud computing, and devices company, now headquartered in…
Apple
Apple Inc. was founded in 1976 in Cupertino, California, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, becoming a consumer electronics and software ecosystem …
Aristocrat
Aristocrat traces to 1953, when Len Ainsworth converted his father's Sydney manufacturing business to making poker machines. When New South Wales legalised poke…
Asda
Asda Stores Limited traces its roots to the 1940s in Yorkshire, with the Asda name adopted in 1965 from Associated Dairies and the Asquith supermarket chain. It…
AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca plc was formed in 1999 through the merger of Swedish Astra AB and British Zeneca Group, headquartered in Cambridge, England. It focuses on oncology,…
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Barclays
Barclays PLC traces to goldsmith bankers in seventeenth-century London and was formally named Barclays by partners in the eighteenth century. Headquarters remai…
BASF
BASF SE traces to 1865 in Mannheim, Germany, as the Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik, and is headquartered in Ludwigshafen. It is a chemicals and materials scie…
Bayer
Bayer AG was founded in 1863 in Barmen, Germany, and is headquartered in Leverkusen, known historically for dyes and aspirin before becoming a life science grou…
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation was chartered in 1927, succeeding private companies, and is headquartered in London as the UK's public service broadcaster.…
Beiersdorf
Beiersdorf AG was founded in 1882 in Hamburg, Germany, famously linked to pharmacist Oscar Troplowitz and the NIVEA cream launch in 1911. It leads in skincare a…
BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG was founded in 1916 in Munich as an aircraft engine firm before pivoting to motorcycles and automobiles. It remains headquartered in…
Boots
Boots was established in 1849 in Nottingham by John Boot and grew into one of Britain's best-known pharmacy-led retailers, now part of Walgreens Boots Alliance …
BP
BP p.l.c. traces its modern identity to the 1998 merger of British Petroleum and Amoco, though British Petroleum's antecedents reach the early twentieth century…
Bristol Myers Squibb
Bristol Myers Squibb Company formed from the 1989 merger of Bristol-Myers Company and Squibb Corporation, with headquarters in New York. It focuses on oncology,…
British American Tobacco
British American Tobacco plc was incorporated in 1902 as a joint venture linking UK and US tobacco interests, with headquarters in London. It is one of the larg…
BSH Home Appliances
BSH Hausgeräte GmbH was founded in 1967 in Munich as a joint venture between Bosch and Siemens, producing household appliances under brands such as Bosch, Sieme…
BT Group
BT Group plc is the successor to the General Post Office telecommunications functions privatised as British Telecom in the 1980s, now headquartered in London. I…
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Castrol (BP group)
Castrol Limited is a BP subsidiary specialising in lubricants and related fluids. The Castrol name originated with C. C. Wakefield & Company in London in the la…
Chanel
Chanel Limited was established by Gabrielle Chanel in Paris in 1910, opening a hat shop before expanding into couture and fragrance. The house remains headquart…
Chevron
Chevron Corporation traces to the 1879 Pacific Coast Oil Company in San Francisco and is headquartered in San Ramon, California. It is a major integrated oil an…
Coats Group
Coats Group plc traces to Clark & Coats threads in Paisley in the eighteenth century and James Coats threads in the nineteenth, forming a global industrial thre…
Colgate-Palmolive
Colgate-Palmolive Company formed from the combination of Colgate (founded 1806 by William Colgate in New York) and Palmolive-Peet, with a modern global headquar…
Crown Paints (Crown Brands)
Crown Paints is a long-established UK decorative coatings business with roots in northern England's industrial paint heritage, later evolving through corporate …
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Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom AG was privatised from the German Bundespost in the 1990s and is headquartered in Bonn. It is Europe's largest telecommunications provider by r…
Diageo
Diageo plc was formed in 1997 through the merger of Grand Metropolitan and Guinness and is headquartered in London. It is the world's largest spirits company by…
Disney
The Walt Disney Company was founded in 1923 in Los Angeles by Walt and Roy Disney, headquartered in Burbank, California. It spans filmed entertainment, parks, c…
Dow
Dow Inc. traces to the Dow Chemical Company founded by Herbert Henry Dow in 1897 in Midland, Michigan, and is headquartered in Midland. Following corporate reor…
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Eli Lilly
Eli Lilly and Company was established in 1876 in Indianapolis, Indiana, by Colonel Eli Lilly, pioneering standardised medicines. It is a major global pharmaceut…
ExxonMobil
Exxon Mobil Corporation resulted from the 1999 merger of Exxon and Mobil, both descended from John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil trust, with headquarters in Spr…
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Games Global
Games Global Ltd was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in the Isle of Man — a jurisdiction that has been a hub of online gambling since the industry's earlie…
Google LLC began as a search engine project in 1998 at Stanford and is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., headquartered in Mountain View, California. Its services s…
GSK
GSK plc traces modern roots to the 2000 merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham, though predecessors such as Glaxo Laboratories reach back to nineteenth…
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Hasbro
Hasbro, Inc. began as Hassenfeld Brothers in 1923 in Providence, Rhode Island, later becoming a global toy and game company. It owns major play and entertainmen…
Henkel
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA was founded in 1876 in Aachen and is now headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany. It operates adhesives, laundry and home care, and beauty car…
Honda
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. was founded in 1948 by Soichiro Honda and Takeo Fujisawa in Hamamatsu and is headquartered in Tokyo. It manufactures automobiles, motorcyc…
Huawei
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. was founded in 1987 in Shenzhen, China, growing from telecom equipment into smartphones, enterprise networking, and patents-heavy …
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IBM
International Business Machines Corporation traces to the 1911 amalgamation of tabulating companies that became IBM, with headquarters in Armonk, New York. It s…
Illinois Tool Works
Illinois Tool Works Inc. was founded in 1912 in Chicago, Illinois, and is headquartered in Glenview, Illinois, as a diversified industrial manufacturer of faste…
Imperial Brands
Imperial Brands plc traces to the 1996 merger of Imperial Tobacco and Hanson's tobacco interests, with headquarters in Bristol. It is a major international toba…
Intel
Intel Corporation was founded in 1968 by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore in Santa Clara, California, and is headquartered in Santa Clara. It is a leading semicond…
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Jaguar Land Rover
Jaguar Land Rover Automotive plc represents two British luxury marques, Jaguar dating to the Swallow Sidecar Company in the 1920s and Land Rover from 1948's uti…
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson was established in 1886 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, originally supplying sterile surgical products, later expanding into consumer health and…
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Kenvue
Kenvue Inc. was spun out from Johnson & Johnson in 2023 and is headquartered in Skillman, New Jersey. It is a consumer health company whose brands span skin car…
King Show Games
King Show Games, Inc. is proof that a company does not need to be a household name to top trademark filing tables. Founded in December 1998 and based in Minneto…
Kodak
Eastman Kodak Company was founded in 1888 by George Eastman in Rochester, New York, and popularised roll film and mass-market photography. Today it is headquart…
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L'Oréal
L'Oréal S.A. was established in 1909 in Paris and is now headquartered in Clichy, France, as a world leader in cosmetics and dermatological skincare. Its model …
LG Electronics
LG Electronics Inc. emerged from South Korea's post-war industrialisation, with the LG brand adopted in 1995 after the GoldStar and Lucky group lineage. Headqua…
Lidl
Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG began as part of the Schwarz Group's discount expansion in 1973 in Germany, using a hard-discount model with private labels. Its European…
Light & Wonder
Light & Wonder, Inc. is the Las Vegas-based slot machine and casino content group that, until April 2022, was known as Scientific Games. The Scientific Games li…
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Marks & Spencer
Marks and Spencer plc began in 1884 as a Leeds penny bazaar partnership before becoming a British institution in clothing and food halls, headquartered in Londo…
Mars (incl. Wrigley)
Mars, Incorporated traces to Franklin Clarence Mars in 1911 in Tacoma, Washington, later McLean, Virginia, as a family-owned confectionery and pet care giant. I…
Mastercard
Mastercard Inc. evolved from banker card associations formed in 1966 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York. It operates a global payments network linking i…
Mattel
Mattel, Inc. was founded in 1945 by Harold Matson and Elliot Handler in El Segundo, California, and remains headquartered there. It is a leading toy and family …
Mercedes-Benz Group
Mercedes-Benz Group AG (formerly Daimler AG) is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, with roots in Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler's late nineteenth century auto…
Merck Group
Merck KGaA was founded in 1668 in Darmstadt, Germany, making it one of the world's oldest chemical-pharmaceutical companies; it is distinct from the US Merck & …
Meta Platforms
Meta Platforms, Inc. rebranded from Facebook, Inc. in 2021 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and…
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation was founded in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, later centred in Redmond, Washington. It dominates productiv…
Mondelez International
Mondelez International, Inc. was created in 2012 from Kraft Foods' global snacks spin-off, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It owns major confectionery and b…
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Nestlé
Nestlé S.A. was founded in 1866 in Vevey, Switzerland, beginning with infant nutrition before expanding into one of the world's broadest food and beverage group…
Netflix
Netflix, Inc. was founded in 1997 in Scotts Valley, California, by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph, and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California. It pioneered …
NFL Properties
NFL Properties LLC commercialises intellectual property for the National Football League, founded as a professional American football association in Canton, Ohi…
Nike
Nike, Inc. was founded in 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight and became Nike in 1971, headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon. It is the w…
Nintendo
Nintendo Co., Ltd. was founded in 1889 in Kyoto as a playing card manufacturer before pivoting to electronic entertainment in the twentieth century. It is headq…
Nissan
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. arose from earlier Japanese industrial combinations and adopted the Nissan name broadly in the 1930s; it is headquartered in Yokohama. It…
Novartis
Novartis AG was created in 1996 through the merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz, headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. It focuses on innovative medicines, generics t…
Novomatic
Novomatic AG was founded in 1980 by Johann Graf and is headquartered in Gumpoldskirchen, Lower Austria. Graf had started in the 1970s importing pinball machines…
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Panasonic
Panasonic Holdings Corporation traces to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., founded in 1918 by Kōnosuke Matsushita in Osaka, and adopted the Panasonic brand gl…
PepsiCo
PepsiCo, Inc. was created in 1965 through the merger of Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay and is headquartered in Purchase, New York. It is a global food and beverage co…
Pfizer
Pfizer Inc. was founded in 1849 by Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhart in Brooklyn, New York, and is headquartered in New York City. It is a research-based biopha…
Philip Morris International
Philip Morris International Inc. was spun off in 2008 from Altria Group, headquartered in New York and Lausanne, Switzerland. It sells cigarettes and heated tob…
Philips
Koninklijke Philips N.V. was founded in 1891 in Eindhoven by the Philips family as a lighting manufacturer and is now headquartered in Amsterdam. It focuses on …
Pladis (UK)
Pladis Global is a confectionery company within Yıldız Holding, built around United Biscuits heritage brands in the United Kingdom. United Biscuits itself combi…
Premier Foods
Premier Foods plc is a United Kingdom headquartered food manufacturer formed from successive mergers and demergers, with notable roots in Hovis McDougall and Ra…
Procter & Gamble
The Procter & Gamble Company was founded in 1837 in Cincinnati, Ohio, as a candle and soap partnership before becoming a packaged goods conglomerate. It pioneer…
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Reckitt
Reckitt plc traces to Isaac Reckitt's 1823 starch business in Hull, later merging histories with Benckiser in 1999 to form Reckitt Benckiser, now simplified as …
Royal Mail
Royal Mail traces centuries of state postal functions, with the modern Royal Mail Group shaped by privatisation-era restructuring; headquarters have been in Lon…
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Sainsbury's
J Sainsbury plc was founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury with a small dairy shop in London and is headquartered in London. It is one of the United Kingdom's …
Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. was incorporated in 1969 in South Korea and grew into a global leader in smartphones, memory semiconductors, displays, and applian…
Sanofi
Sanofi S.A. was formed through French pharmaceutical mergers, with roots in firms such as Synthélabo and Rhône-Poulenc Rorer, and is headquartered in Paris. It …
Sega
Sega Corporation originated from Standard Games in Hawaii in 1940 and later Japan-focused amusement imports, adopting the Sega name in the 1950s. Headquarters a…
Shell
Shell plc traces the Shell Transport and Trading Company to Marcus Samuel's 1830s London shipping interests, later merging into Royal Dutch Shell in 1907, now s…
Siemens
Siemens AG was founded in Berlin in 1847 by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske and is now headquartered in Munich and Berlin. It is a multinational engi…
Sky
Sky Group Limited began as Sky Television in the 1980s British satellite TV race, later part of Comcast after prior corporate ownership, with headquarters in Is…
Sony
Sony Group Corporation began as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo in 1946 in Japan, adopting the Sony name in 1958, and is headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. It spans electronic…
Stanley Black & Decker
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. was formed in 2010 from the merger of Stanley Works and Black & Decker, headquartered in New Britain, Connecticut. Stanley's origin…
Starbucks
Starbucks Corporation was founded in 1971 in Seattle, Washington, by partners selling coffee beans and equipment, and is headquartered in Seattle. It operates a…
Syngenta
Syngenta Group traces to the 2000 combination of Novartis and AstraZeneca agrochemical and seed businesses and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. It suppli…
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Target
Target Corporation grew from Dayton's department store roots in Minneapolis, founded in 1902, with the first Target discount store opening in 1962. Headquarters…
Tesco
Tesco plc originated in 1919 when Jack Cohen began selling surplus groceries in London's East End, naming the company from tea supplier T.E. Stockwell. It grew …
Tesla
Tesla, Inc. was incorporated in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, with Elon Musk joining early funding rounds, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.…
The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company was created in 1892 in Atlanta, Georgia, bottling a beverage first devised in 1886 by John Pemberton. It became a global soft drinks and h…
Toyota
Toyota Motor Corporation grew from Toyoda Automatic Loom Works spinouts in the 1930s and is headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture. It is among the worl…
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Uber Technologies
Uber Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2009 in San Francisco by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick as a ride-hailing startup and remains headquartered in San Fran…
Unilever
Unilever plc formed from the 1929 merger of Dutch Margarine Unie and British Lever Brothers, linking two consumer goods traditions. Today it remains a major mul…
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Virgin
Virgin Enterprises Limited, part of the Virgin Group founded by Richard Branson in 1970 in London, licences the Virgin name across airlines, telecoms, money, fi…
Visa
Visa Inc. originated from the BankAmericard programme launched in Fresno, California, in 1958 and is headquartered in San Francisco. It operates one of the larg…
Volkswagen Group
Volkswagen AG was established in 1937 and is headquartered in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is Europe's largest automotive manufacturer and parent to bra…
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Walmart
Walmart Inc. began as Walton's Five and Dime in 1950 and incorporated as Wal-Mart Stores in 1962 in Bentonville, Arkansas, where headquarters remain. It is the …
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. was formed in 2022 through the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery, Inc. Its studio lineage traces to Warner Bros. Pictures, founde…
WWE
World Wrestling Entertainment traces to the 1950s northeastern US wrestling territory of Capitol Wrestling Corporation, and operated from 1979 as the World Wres…