Company Overview
Essity AB (publ) is a worldwide company engaged in the development, production, and sale of an extensive range of hygiene and health products, alongside related services. The company's operations are divided into key segments: Personal Care, Consumer Tissue, and Professional Hygiene. Their health and medical offerings encompass items such as incontinence products, advanced wound care, compression therapy, orthopedics, skincare solutions, and digital tools featuring sensor technology. For consumer markets, Essity supplies a variety of goods including incontinence products, feminine hygiene pads, baby diapers, wet wipes, skincare, intimate washes, reusable absorbent underwear, menstrual cups, and household paper products like toilet paper, kitchen towels, facial tissues, and napkins. The professional hygiene segment provides businesses and institutions with essentials such as toilet paper, paper hand towels, hand soaps, lotions, sanitizers, dispensers, and cleaning supplies. This segment also delivers digital solutions like Internet of Things (IoT) sensor technology for data-driven cleaning, coupled with associated service and maintenance for a wide array of venues, from offices and universities to healthcare facilities, industries, restaurants, hotels, and stadiums. Essity promotes its health and medical brands—TENA, Leukoplast, Cutimed, JOBST, Actimove, and Delta-Cast—through pharmacies, medical device retailers, hospitals, distributors, care institutions, and e-commerce platforms. Consumer products, including Libero, Libresse, Nosotras, Saba, TOM Organic, Lotus, Regio, Tempo, and Vinda, are sold via retail outlets and online. Professional hygiene items, primarily under the TORK brand, are distributed through specialized distributors and online channels. With a global presence spanning Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, and other international regions, Essity AB (publ) was founded in 1849 and maintains its headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden.