TENA is a
Swedish
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-based brand of
Essity that specializes in products for adults with
urinary or
fecal incontinence, such as pads and
diapers. TENA also produces a youth diaper brand for teenagers and larger children. The company has offices in all of
North America
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, most of
Europe, in
Australia
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and
New Zealand, and some parts of
Asia and
Central America. TENA has specific lines for retail and health care. They can be found at grocery, drug and discount stores, in aisles where other bladder control products are sold.
History
SCA, the parent company of Essity, which is the parent company of TENA, was founded in
Sweden
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in 1929 by
Ivar Kreuger as a paper packaging company. The company has produced
personal hygiene products since the 1970s. The TENA brand was first used by the separate company
Mölnlycke in the 1980s, then acquired by SCA in the early 1990s. In 1998, SCA Personal Care was created and took control of 25% of the world's share of incontinence products. The company's incontinence products branched off into another name called TENA later that year.{{Citation needed, date=October 2020
See also
*
Fecal incontinence
*
Urinary incontinence
External links
TENA official site (includes many countries)Global Forum on Incontinence
Underwear brands
Diaper brands
Health care companies established in 1929
Swedish brands
SCA (company)