Aquascutum
The name is licensed to other makers for some or all of what carries it.
Reported Owner from a secondary source, or a register entry whose current status wasn’t checked.
Checked
Ownership
- 1851 Founded
- Now Shandong Ruyi Group (bought from YGM Trading 2017, $117m); current status unverified given Ruyi's post-2020 debt distress Ultimate parent: Shandong Ruyi Technology Group Operating company
- 2026 Checked
- Kind of name
- Licensed nameThe company that owns the trademark doesn’t necessarily make the product. Quality follows the licensee, not the name.
- Market tier
- Luxury
- Seen at off-price
- Sometimes
Notes
Aquascutum's UK company collapsed in 2012; YGM (Hong Kong), already the Asian licensee, bought the global brand, then sold it to Shandong Ruyi in 2017. Ruyi has since defaulted on other assets; no opened source documents a later Aquascutum sale, so treat the owner as reported.