Persil
Score
4/5European owner. Some facts are not yet verified.
German laundry-detergent brand that Henkel developed in 1907 as the first self-acting detergent. The brand belongs to the German group Henkel AG & Co. KGaA; in the United Kingdom a separate Persil brand belongs to Unilever. Henkel does not publish where its Persil is made.
What we know
- Owner
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, GermanyEU
Family control
- Headquarters
Düsseldorf, GermanyEU
- Production
The company does not publish where this is made.
Checked on 2 October 2026: the Persil brand page on henkel.com, the Persil Germany site (home page and the page Unsere Produktion), the Persil Netherlands site and the Henkel imprint. None of them names a plant or a country where Persil is made.
- Available in
Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Netherlands, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Taiwan, Türkiye, Ukraine, United States
- Not yet verified
- The company does not publish where this is made.
- Whether there are large shareholders outside Europe
We have not listed alternatives for this brand yet.
Ownership chain
- Persil
- Henkel AG & Co. KGaABrand ownerGermanyEU
Sources
- Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
- Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
- Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
- Imprint: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Henkelstrasse 67, 40589 Düsseldorf, Germany
- Unilever
- Imprint: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Henkelstrasse 67, 40589 Düsseldorf, Germany, Commercial Register Düsseldorf HRB 4724
- Henkel Annual Report 2025: voting rights notifications, the Henkel family share-pooling agreement holds 61.85 percent of the voting rights
Last verified on 2 October 2026.