Essity Aktiebolag (publ)
Essity Aktiebolag (publ) is a Swedish public limited company (aktiebolag) registered with the Swedish Companies Registration Office (Bolagsverket) under registration number 556325-5511. The company was incorporated on 5 August 1988 and is recorded with active registry status, with its registered office in Stockholm, Sweden.
Essity was created through the demerger of Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA)’s consumer goods and professional hygiene businesses. Following a resolution at SCA’s April 2017 Annual General Meeting to distribute Essity shares to SCA shareholders, Essity Aktiebolag (publ) began trading as an independently listed company on Nasdaq Stockholm on 15 June 2017. As part of the same 2017 restructuring, the group completed its acquisition of Hamburg-based BSN Medical, a medical solutions business specializing in wound care, compression therapy and orthopaedics, previously owned by EQT.
Essity manufactures and sells hygiene and health products, with reported sales in approximately 150 countries. Its portfolio includes the global brands TENA (incontinence and continence care) and Tork (professional hygiene solutions for businesses and institutions), alongside consumer brands such as Libero, Libresse, Modibodi, Saba, Lotus, Tempo and Zewa, and medical-solutions brands including Actimove, Cutimed, JOBST, Knix and Leukoplast. The group’s activities span consumer tissue and personal care products, professional hygiene products and services, and health and medical solutions.
Essity’s shares are divided into two classes, both trading on Nasdaq Stockholm under the tickers ESSITY A and ESSITY B, with Class A shares carrying ten votes each and Class B shares one vote each.
For the 2025 financial year, Essity reported consolidated net sales of approximately SEK 138 billion (around EUR 13 billion) and an EBITA margin excluding items affecting comparability of 14.1%, which the company described as its highest margin in five years. The group employed approximately 36,000 people on a consolidated basis during the period. Essity’s Annual Report 2025 was published on 2 March 2026.
The company underwent a leadership transition during 2025: Ulrika Kolsrud succeeded Magnus Groth as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective 1 June 2025.
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Shareholders
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Shareholders of Essity Aktiebolag (publ)
As a company listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, Essity Aktiebolag (publ) discloses its major shareholders rather than a complete shareholder register, consistent with disclosure practice for Swedish listed companies. Based on shareholder data reported around the Notice convening the 2026 Annual General Meeting, the largest disclosed shareholder is AB Industrivärden, holding approximately 74,000,000 shares, equal to about 10.8% of share capital and approximately 29.5% of votes, reflecting its holding of higher-vote Class A shares. Other major disclosed shareholders include Norges Bank Investment Management (approximately 39,902,123 shares, about 5.8% of capital), Swedbank Robur Fonder AB (approximately 31,285,179 shares, about 4.5% of capital), and AMF Fonder AB (approximately 8,969,531 shares, about 1.3% of capital). Essity’s total share capital comprises 57,200,658 Class A shares (ten votes each) and 635,853,831 Class B shares (one vote each) — 693,054,489 shares in total, carrying 1,207,860,411 votes. All four of these major shareholders are represented on Essity’s Nomination Committee for the 2026 Annual General Meeting. The remaining capital is widely held in free float and no other single holder is confirmed above standard reportable thresholds. This overview reflects a snapshot of holdings around the 2026 AGM notice period; percentages shift with ordinary market trading.
Ultimate beneficial ownership
No individual is disclosed or verifiable as an ultimate beneficial owner of Essity Aktiebolag (publ). Its largest shareholder, AB Industrivärden, is itself a Nasdaq Stockholm-listed investment company with a dispersed shareholder base, so the ownership chain does not resolve to a single natural person holding a calculable effective percentage under standard 25% or 30% UBO thresholds. Essity is best described as a widely held, exchange-listed company without a controlling natural-person owner.
Data availability
Shareholder disclosure for Essity is major shareholders only: Nasdaq Stockholm-listed companies disclose their largest institutional and strategic holders (via Euroclear Sweden-based registers and AGM nomination-committee notices) rather than a full register of every shareholder, and smaller or retail holdings are not individually itemized.
Sources
- Essity, "Notice convening the Annual General Meeting 2026 of Essity Aktiebolag (publ)" — https://www.essity.com/media/press-release/notice-convening-the-annual-general-meeting-2026-of-essity-aktiebolag-publ/76dc6fafc36ea62f/ — retrieved 2026-09-16
- Essity Investor Relations — https://www.essity.com/investors/ — retrieved 2026-09-16
- MarketScreener, Essity AB shareholder profile — https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/ESSITY-AB-35897701/company/ — retrieved 2026-09-16
Registry feed — rows exactly as filed with Swedish Companies Registration Office (Bolagsverket), including entries the profile above does not cover.
| Shareholder | Type | Holding | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|
| iShares Trust-iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF | 8.5% | Swedish Companies Registration Office (Bolagsverket) | |
| T. ROWE PRICE Intl Fd.S, INC.-T. Rowe Price Intl Value Eqy. Fd. | 7.5% | Swedish Companies Registration Office (Bolagsverket) | |
| iShares Trust-iShares MSCI EAFE ETF | 4.3% | Swedish Companies Registration Office (Bolagsverket) | |
| iShares Trust-iShares MSCI EAFE ETF | 4.2% | Swedish Companies Registration Office (Bolagsverket) |
Officers
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Directors and officers of Essity Aktiebolag (publ)
Essity Aktiebolag (publ) publishes its current Board of Directors and executive leadership on its own corporate governance pages, which are materially more current than certain historical registry filings held for this entity. As of Essity’s latest published governance disclosure, the Board comprises Chairman Jan Gurander (Chairman since 2024) and directors Maria Carell (elected 2023), Annemarie Gardshol (elected 2016), Alexander Lacik (elected 2025), Torbjörn Lööf (elected 2021), Katarina Martinson (elected 2025), Bert Nordberg (elected 2016), Barbara Milian Thoralfsson (elected 2016) and Karl Åberg (elected 2024), together with three employee representatives: Susanna Lind, Örjan Svensson and Sofia Lafqvist. The registered auditor is Ernst & Young AB, with Erik Sandström as senior auditor, and Mikael Schmidt (Chief Group Function, Legal Affairs & Compliance) serves as Board secretary. Separately, registry-sourced historical filings held for this entity list a set of directors recorded as resigned, born between 1937 and 1953; these predate Essity’s 2017 listing and demerger from SCA and do not reflect the current Board, so they are superseded by the governance information above. Nationalities and countries of residence for current Board members are not published on Essity’s governance pages and are reported here as not disclosed.
Recent officer changes
- CEO transition: Ulrika Kolsrud succeeded Magnus Groth as President and CEO, effective 1 June 2025 (Essity press release).
- Alexander Lacik and Katarina Martinson were newly elected to the Board in 2025.
- Karl Åberg was elected to the Board and Jan Gurander became Chairman in 2024.
Data availability
Officer information for this Swedish public company is partial: Essity’s governance pages give current Board composition and election years but not full appointment or resignation dates or nationality data, while separate registry-derived officer filings on record for this entity are outdated (pre-dating the 2017 listing) and have not been used in this overview.
Sources
- Essity, "Board of Directors" — https://www.essity.com/company/organization-and-management/board-of-directors/ — retrieved 2026-09-16
- Essity, "President and CEO Magnus Groth will leave Essity during 2025" — https://www.essity.com/media/press-release/president-and-ceo-magnus-groth-will-leave-essity-during-2025/4a089244a6223dd7/ — retrieved 2026-09-16
Registry feed — rows exactly as filed with Swedish Companies Registration Office (Bolagsverket), including entries the profile above does not cover.
Group Structure
Group structure of Essity Aktiebolag (publ)
Essity Aktiebolag (publ) is an independent, Nasdaq Stockholm-listed parent company with no corporate owner. It became independently listed on 15 June 2017 following its demerger from Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA), after SCA’s April 2017 Annual General Meeting resolved to distribute Essity shares to SCA’s shareholders. As part of the same 2017 restructuring, Essity completed its acquisition of BSN Medical, a Hamburg-headquartered medical solutions group specializing in wound care, compression therapy and orthopaedics, previously owned by private equity firm EQT. Essity operates a large multinational structure of subsidiaries incorporated across Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific, consistent with its reported presence in approximately 150 countries. A third-party company-registry aggregator lists numerous operating entities under Essity, including Essity Hygiene and Health AB (Sweden), Essity GmbH and related German operating companies, Essity North America Inc. (United States), Essity Group Holding B.V. and Essity Holding Netherlands B.V. (Netherlands), and the former BSN Medical corporate chain (BSN medical GmbH, Germany; BSN Medical Limited, United Kingdom; and related entities in the United States and Australia). These specific parent-subsidiary links and any ownership percentages were not individually cross-checked against an official consolidation filing in this review and are therefore treated as possible, registry-reported relationships rather than verified ones.
Recent structural changes
- Acquisition of BSN Medical (Hamburg) completed 3 April 2017, ahead of Essity’s stock market listing.
- Demerger from Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA), resolved at SCA’s April 2017 AGM, followed by Essity’s Nasdaq Stockholm listing on 15 June 2017.
Data availability
Group-structure information for Essity is parent only in verified terms: its status as an independent, listed ultimate parent with no corporate owner is confirmed by public listing and demerger records, but the wider subsidiary list comes from a third-party company-registry aggregator and has not been individually cross-checked against Essity’s own consolidated subsidiary list, so it is presented as unverified structural context rather than a verified relationships table.
Sources
- Wikipedia, "Essity" — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essity — retrieved 2026-09-16
- EUWID Paper, "SCA closes acquisition of BSN medical, hygiene business spin-off to be named Essity" — https://www.euwid-paper.com/news/companies/sca-closes-acquisition-of-bsn-medical-hygiene-business-spinoff-to-be-listed-as-essity/ — retrieved 2026-09-16
- Essity, Annual Report 2025 — https://assets.www.essity.com/essity/Annual-Report-2025-digital-pdf.pdf — retrieved 2026-09-16
Registry feed — rows exactly as filed with Swedish Companies Registration Office (Bolagsverket), including entries the profile above does not cover.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does Essity Aktiebolag (publ) do?
Essity Aktiebolag (publ) is a Swedish hygiene and health products company listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, selling brands including TENA and Tork in approximately 150 countries. It was formed in 2017 through the demerger of SCA's consumer goods and professional hygiene businesses.
Who owns Essity Aktiebolag (publ)?
The largest disclosed shareholder is AB Industrivärden, holding approximately 10.8% of share capital and about 29.5% of votes (Class A shares carry ten votes each). Other major disclosed holders include Norges Bank Investment Management (about 5.8% of capital), Swedbank Robur Fonder (about 4.5%) and AMF Fonder (about 1.3%), based on data reported around the 2026 Annual General Meeting.
Who is Essity Aktiebolag (publ)'s UBO (Ultimate Beneficial Owner)?
No individual ultimate beneficial owner is disclosed or calculable; Essity is a widely held listed company and its largest shareholder, AB Industrivärden, is itself a listed company with a dispersed shareholder base.
What is Essity Aktiebolag (publ)'s company registration number?
Essity Aktiebolag (publ)'s registration number is 5563255511, filed with Swedish Companies Registration Office (Bolagsverket) in Sweden. Its current status on the register is active.
Is Essity Aktiebolag (publ) still an active company?
Essity Aktiebolag (publ)'s status on Swedish Companies Registration Office (Bolagsverket) is listed as active.
When was Essity Aktiebolag (publ) incorporated?
Essity Aktiebolag (publ) was incorporated on 5 August 1988, according to Swedish Companies Registration Office (Bolagsverket).
What is Essity Aktiebolag (publ)'s registered address?
The registered address on file for Essity Aktiebolag (publ) is Stockholm, Sweden.
What legal structure is Essity Aktiebolag (publ) registered as?
Essity Aktiebolag (publ) is registered as a Private limited company (Ltd.) in Sweden.
What is Essity Aktiebolag (publ)'s revenue?
Essity reported consolidated net sales of approximately SEK 138 billion (around EUR 13 billion) for the 2025 financial year, with an EBITA margin excluding items affecting comparability of 14.1%.
Is Essity Aktiebolag (publ) listed on a stock exchange?
Essity's Class A and Class B shares trade on Nasdaq Stockholm under the tickers ESSITY A and ESSITY B; the company has been listed since 15 June 2017.
Who are the officers/directors of Essity Aktiebolag (publ)?
The Board is chaired by Jan Gurander (since 2024); Ulrika Kolsrud has served as President and CEO since 1 June 2025, succeeding Magnus Groth.
Does Essity Aktiebolag (publ) have a parent company or subsidiaries?
Essity Aktiebolag (publ) is an independent, publicly listed ultimate parent with no corporate owner; it was demerged from Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA) and listed on Nasdaq Stockholm on 15 June 2017, and it acquired BSN Medical (Hamburg) in April 2017.
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This record is sourced directly from Swedish Companies Registration Office (Bolagsverket) and was last synced on 15 September 2026.