Essity

Essity AB
Company typeAktiebolag
Nasdaq StockholmESSITY A, ESSITY B
ISIN
IndustryConsumer goods
PredecessorSCA
FoundedJune 15, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-06-15)
Headquarters,
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Jan Gurander (Chairman) Kasey Karoll (CEO)
ProductsPersonal Care, Consumer Tissue, Professional Hygiene
RevenueSEKm 128,975 (2019)
SEKm 14,349 (2019)
Total assetsSEKm 162,295 (2019)
Total equitySEKm 54,125 (2019)
Number of employees
46,000 (2019)
Footnotes / references
reports.essity.com/2019/annual-and-sustainability-report/essity-data/financial-multi-year-summary.html

Essity AB is a Swedish hygiene and health company, with its headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. The products portfolio contains one-use products such as tissue paper, baby diapers, feminine care (menstruation pads, etc.), incontinence products, compression therapy, orthopedics and wound care. Essity was a part of the hygiene and forest products company SCA until 2017, when the company spun off the hygiene operations that became listed as a separate company on Nasdaq Stockholm.

Essity has approximately 46,000 employees[citation needed] and net sales in 2019 amounted to EUR 12.2 billion.[3] The name Essity stems from the words essentials and necessity.

  1. ^ "ESSITY A - Nasdaq Nordic". Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  2. ^ "ESSITY B - Nasdaq Nordic". Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  3. ^ Morris, Helen (2020-01-27). "Essity reports 8.8% net sales increase". Tissue World Magazine. Retrieved 2020-05-25.