Essity AB is a global hygiene and health company, with its headquarters in
Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm () is the capital and largest city of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropoli ...
. The products portfolio contains one-use products such as
tissue paper
Tissue paper or simply tissue is a lightweight paper or, light crêpe paper. Tissue can be made from recycled pulp (paper), paper pulp on a paper machine.
Tissue paper is very versatile, and different kinds of tissue are made to best serve these ...
,
baby diapers
A diaper /ˈdaɪpə(r)/ (American and Canadian English) or a nappy (Australian English, British English, and Hiberno-English) is a type of underwear that allows the wearer to urinate or defecate without using a toilet, by absorbing or contai ...
,
feminine care (menstruation pads etc.),
incontinence products,
compression therapy,
orthopedics
Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics ( alternatively spelt orthopaedics), is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgeons use both surgical and nonsurgical means to treat musculoskeletal ...
and
wound care
The history of wound care spans from prehistory to modern medicine. Wounds naturally heal by themselves, but hunter-gatherers would have noticed several factors and certain herbal remedies would speed up or assist the process, especially if it was ...
. Essity was a part of the hygiene and
forest product
A forest product is any material derived from forestry for direct consumption or commercial use, such as lumber, paper, or fodder for livestock. Wood, by far the dominant product of forests, is used for many purposes, such as wood fuel (e.g. in fo ...
s company
SCA
SCA may refer to:
Biology and health
* Sickle cell disease, also known as sickle cell anaemia
* Spinocerebellar ataxia, a neurological condition
* Statistical coupling analysis, a method to identify covarying pairs of amino acids in protein mult ...
until 2017, when the company spun off the hygiene operations that became listed as a separate company on
Nasdaq Stockholm
Nasdaq Stockholm, formerly known as the Stockholm Stock Exchange ( sv, Stockholmsbörsen), is a stock exchange located in Frihamnen, Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 1863, it has become the primary securities exchange of the Nordic countries. As o ...
.
Essity has approximately 46 000 employees and net sales in 2019 amounted to EUR 12.2 billion. The name Essity stems from the words 'Essentials' and 'Necessity'.
History
Essity is formerly a part of the SCA group.
SCA was founded in 1929 as a forestry company. In 1975, SCA acquired
Mölnlycke AB, a western European producer of disposable hygiene products.
![Zewa-Waldhof](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Zewa-Waldhof.jpg)
In 1995 they acquired the German paper and packaging company PWA, Papierwerke Waldhof-Aschaffenburg.
In 2001 the division Wisconsin Tissue of the United States company Georgia-Pacific Tissue was acquired.
In 2004 SCA acquired the tissue and hygiene products businesses of Carter Holt Harvey from
International Paper
The International Paper Company is an American pulp and paper company, the largest such company in the world. It has approximately 56,000 employees, and is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.
History
The company was incorporated January 31 ...
.
In 2007,
Procter & Gamble
The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is an American multinational consumer goods corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, founded in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble. It specializes in a wide range of personal health/consumer hea ...
sold their European tissue business to SCA for €512 million ($672 million).
In 2007 SCA acquired its first minority share in the Asian tissue company Vinda.
In 2011, it acquired the Brazilian Pro Descart for about
R$114 million, with local brands "Biofral" and "Drybaby". Later, it invested R$242 million in a plant in Jarinu, in the interior of São Paulo, consolidating the brands
TENA
TENA is a Sweden, Swedish-based brand of Essity that specializes in products for adults with urinary incontinence, urinary or fecal incontinence, such as pads and diapers. TENA also produces a youth diaper brand for teenagers and larger childre ...
and
Tork.
In July 2012, the acquisition of Georgia Pacific's tissue operations, including the brand Lotus, was closed. The total price amounted to €1.32 billion.
In 2013 SCA became majority shareholder in
Vinda.
In 2015, SCA was the largest producer of tissue paper in the world.
In August 2015 it was announced that SCA's hygiene operations and forestry operations were to be divided into two different divisions. A year later, 24 August 2016, the company announced that it intended to split the SCA into two separately listed companies. In December 2016 SCA announced the acquisition of BSN Medical, a company specializing in the areas of Compression Therapy, Wound Care and Orthopaedics. The purchase price amounted to €2740 million and included brands such as Jobst, Leukoplast, Cutimed, Delta Cast and Actimove. In 2017, SCA split off Essity as a separate company, and Essity listed on the Stock Exchange in Stockholm on June 15, 2017.
Brands
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Libresse
Libresse is a brand of Essity, specializing in products for period and daily intimate care. Libresse is a global brand, operating under a number of different names in local markets - Bodyform, Nana, Nuvenia, Saba, Nosotras, Libresse, Libra.
Essity ...
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Plenty
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Tempo
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*OKAY (France and Belgium)
*
TENA
TENA is a Sweden, Swedish-based brand of Essity that specializes in products for adults with urinary incontinence, urinary or fecal incontinence, such as pads and diapers. TENA also produces a youth diaper brand for teenagers and larger childre ...
* JOBST
* Leukoplast
* Libero
sv
* Tork
*
Vinda
* Zewa
* Cushelle
* Saba
* Familia (Latin America)
* Regio (Mexico)
Competitors
Essity is amongst the top 50 largest
fast-moving consumer goods
Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), also known as consumer packaged goods (CPG), are products that are sold quickly and at a relatively low cost. Examples include non-durable household goods such as packaged foods, beverages, toiletries, cand ...
companies in the world and some of its competitors are
Unilever
Unilever plc is a British multinational consumer goods company with headquarters in London, England. Unilever products include food, condiments, bottled water, baby food, soft drink, ice cream, instant coffee, cleaning agents, energy drink, t ...
,
Procter & Gamble
The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is an American multinational consumer goods corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, founded in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble. It specializes in a wide range of personal health/consumer hea ...
,
Georgia-Pacific
Georgia-Pacific LLC is an American pulp and paper company based in Atlanta, Georgia, and is one of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of tissue, pulp, paper, toilet and paper towel dispensers, packaging, building products and r ...
,
Kimberly-Clark
Kimberly-Clark Corporation is an American multinational personal care corporation that produces mostly paper-based consumer products. The company manufactures sanitary paper products and surgical & medical instruments. Kimberly-Clark brand n ...
,
Sofidel,
Unicharm
is a Japanese company that manufactures disposable hygiene products, household cleaning products, specializing in the manufacture of diapers for both babies and adult incontinence, feminine hygiene products and pet care products.
The company ...
Ontex,
CMPC
The Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus (russian: Конфедерация горских народов Кавказа) (until 1991 known as Assembly of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus) was a militarised political organisation i ...
,
Santher and
3M.
Sustainability messaging
Several initiatives have been launched to influence messaging around the sustainability of the Essity business model:
*a science-based target for emissions reduction in line with climate science was approved in 2018.
*The company has qualified for inclusion in both the
Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and
Sustainability Europe Index, and has also been named industry leader in the household products sector.
*Company representatives participate in the
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur (born 8 July 1976) is a retired English sailor, from Whatstandwell near Matlock in Derbyshire, now based in Cowes, Isle of Wight.
MacArthur is a successful solo long-distance yachtswoman. On 7 February 2005, ...
's "New Plastics Economy" initiative and have committed to sustainability targets for packaging, for example that 85% of the company's packaging is to be manufactured from renewable or recycled material by 2025.
Criticism
Along with its supplier SCA, Essity was accused by
Greenpeace
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by Irving Stowe and Dorothy Stowe, immigrant environmental activists from the United States. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth t ...
of promoting unsustainable business practices aggravating
global warming
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and
mass extinction
An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction or biotic crisis) is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth. Such an event is identified by a sharp change in the diversity and abundance of multicellular organisms. It ...
. Greenpeace claim that Essity "clearcuts some of Sweden’s last remaining old-growth forests, wiping away habitats of threatened species and endangering the livelihood of indigenous communities".
In late August 2022, Essity announced their intention to sue
lockedout striking workers at a paper-mill in
Kawerau
Kawerau is a town in the Bay of Plenty region of the North Island of New Zealand. It is situated 100 km south-east of Tauranga and 58 km east of Rotorua. It is the seat of the Kawerau District Council, and the only town in Kawerau Distric ...
, New Zealand, for ~$580,000
NZD
The New Zealand dollar ( mi, tāra o Aotearoa; sign: $, NZ$; code: NZD) is the official currency and legal tender of New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Niue, the Ross Dependency, Tokelau, and a British territory, the Pitcairn Islands. Within New ...
because they began their strike an hour earlier than stated. The
strike
Strike may refer to:
People
* Strike (surname)
Physical confrontation or removal
*Strike (attack), attack with an inanimate object or a part of the human body intended to cause harm
*Airstrike, military strike by air forces on either a suspected ...
began in early August over a pay dispute, and involved 145 workers.
References
External links
* {{official website
Essity- Forbes
SCA (company)
Multinational companies headquartered in Sweden
Pulp and paper companies of Sweden
Personal care companies
Swedish brands
Companies listed on Nasdaq Stockholm
Manufacturing companies based in Stockholm
Manufacturing companies established in 2017
Swedish companies established in 2017
Corporate spin-offs