Who Owns The Honey Pot Company Now?

The Honey Pot built something rare. A Black-owned, plant-based feminine care brand that got clean period products onto shelves at Target and Walmart, where most people actually shop, rather than into a boutique nobody visits.

Then in January 2024 it sold a majority stake. The buyer is worth knowing about, and not for the usual reasons.

Short answer, up front

The Honey Pot is majority-owned by Compass Diversified, a publicly traded holding company, in a deal that closed on 31 January 2024 valuing the business at around $380 million. Co-founder Beatrice Dixon stayed on as CEO.

The complication came later. In 2025, Compass Diversified announced that its own financial statements for 2022, 2023 and 2024 could no longer be relied upon.

What happened at the parent company

In May 2025, Compass Diversified disclosed an internal investigation at Lugano Holding, a jewelry business it owns about 60% of. The investigation, run by outside counsel and a forensic accounting firm, found irregularities in Lugano’s financing, accounting and inventory practices.

The consequences landed fast. The company declared non-reliance on its 2024 financial statements, then extended that to 2022 and 2023. Lugano’s founder and CEO resigned with no severance. The stock fell 59% in a day. The NYSE issued a non-compliance notice in May 2025 for failing to file a quarterly report, and the dividend was suspended. Multiple securities fraud investigations were announced by plaintiff firms.

Compass Diversified has said the issues are limited to Lugano and that the investigation isn’t focused on its other subsidiaries. The Honey Pot is one of those other subsidiaries.

What this actually means for the products

Nothing, as far as anyone can show. This is an accounting problem at a sibling company inside the same holding structure. It isn’t a product safety issue, a sourcing issue, or a claim about The Honey Pot’s own books. The organic cotton tampons and pads are what they were.

We want to be precise about that, because the distance between “the parent company had an accounting scandal” and “your tampons are compromised” is enormous and we’re not going to pretend otherwise.

So why write this at all

Because our whole argument to readers is that verified claims beat marketing claims. A directory built on that idea has to notice when a brand’s owner tells the market that three years of its own numbers were wrong.

It’s a governance question rather than a product question. For some readers that’s decisive and for most it isn’t. Both are reasonable, which is why the answer is disclosure rather than a rule.

The Honey Pot stays in our organic period products roundup, with the ownership named in its spec line, exactly as it was before we knew any of this.

If the ownership is the deciding factor

Two brands in the same roundup answer the question differently, and both are stronger on certification.

Natracare became employee-owned in March 2026, when its founder handed the company to an Employee Ownership Trust after 37 years rather than sell it. It also holds more certifications than anything else in the category. Saalt is founder-owned and a certified B Corp, and its cups and discs cut the waste question entirely.

The honest verdict

Buy The Honey Pot if you like the products and you’re buying them at the drugstore because that’s where you are. They’re good, the organic cotton line is clean, and Beatrice Dixon still runs it.

Know that the money goes to a holding company currently working through a serious accounting failure at another of its businesses. That’s the fact. What you do with it is yours.

Our greenwashing guide has more on why ownership keeps turning out to be the thing brands mention last.

Frequently asked questions

Who owns The Honey Pot Company?

Compass Diversified, a publicly traded holding company, acquired a majority stake in a deal that closed on 31 January 2024 at a valuation of around $380 million. Co-founder Beatrice Dixon remains chief executive and existing owners kept a minority interest.

Is The Honey Pot still Black-owned?

Its co-founder is still its CEO and retains a stake, but majority ownership sits with Compass Diversified. Whether a brand with a majority corporate owner still counts as Black-owned is a judgment we’d rather hand you with the facts attached than make on your behalf.

Does the Compass Diversified investigation affect Honey Pot products?

There’s no evidence that it does. The investigation concerns Lugano Holding, a separate jewelry subsidiary, and Compass Diversified has said it isn’t focused on its other businesses. It’s a governance and accounting matter, not a product one.

What are the alternatives to The Honey Pot?

Natracare, which is employee-owned and the most thoroughly certified brand in organic period care, and Saalt, a founder-owned B Corp making reusable cups and discs. Both are in our organic period products roundup.