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SharkNinja, Inc.CIK 0001957132 · Household Appliances
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About SharkNinja, Inc.
Source: Item 1 (Business) from the 10-K filed March 2, 2026. Description as filed by the company with the SEC.
Item 1. Business
At SharkNinja, our mission is to positively impact people’s lives every day in every home in our global markets.
The Company has identified two operating segments, Domestic and International, which are aggregated into one reportable segment that derives revenues from customers through the sale of the Company’s small household appliances, which are sold under two brands, Shark and Ninja.
SharkNinja: World-Class Household Appliance Brands Built on Continuous, Disruptive Innovation
SharkNinja is a global product design and technology company that creates 5-star rated lifestyle solutions through innovative products for consumers around the world. We seek to leverage our global, agile and cross-functional engineering know-how, product development and manufacturing expertise along with our solutions-driven marketing to increase the efficiency, convenience and enjoyment of consumers’ daily tasks and improve everyday lives. We have built two billion-dollar brands, Shark and Ninja, and have a proven track record of establishing leadership positions by disrupting numerous household product categories, including Cleaning Appliances, Cooking and Beverage Appliances, Food Preparation Appliances and Beauty and Home Environment Appliances. We have successfully gained market share across geographies, taking share from competitors priced both above and below our offerings. We believe our success is centered around our advanced engineering and innovation capabilities coupled with our deep understanding of consumer needs, enabling us to solve consumer problems that others either do not see or are unable to solve.
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We are driven by our relentless pursuit of perfection to deliver innovative products at compelling value to delight consumers. We regularly analyze consumers’ interactions with small home appliances and leverage consumer reviews across multiple platforms, which we refer to as our “always-on” approach. Our global product design and engineering team applies these always-on consumer insights to create new technologies and intellectual property that differentiates our products. Further, we strive to enhance our products through rapid iteration and refinement with the goal of increasing the value of our legacy products while decreasing costs. We believe this pursuit of perfection through innovation extends our product life cycles and differentiates us from competitors with longer innovation cycles. Our approach aims to enable us to rapidly bring new products to market, grow share of shelf and market share and thus quickly establish leadership positions in both existing and new categories.
Trusted Global Brands with Large and Growing Market Share
Our trusted global brands have established a reputation for industry-leading innovation and 5-star consumer reviews. Our unwavering consumer focus has manifested in our leading market positions. Shark is the #1 floorcare brand in the United States, and Ninja is the best-selling small kitchen appliances in the United States, according to Circana (unless otherwise noted, all market share claims are based on dollars sold for the period ending January 3, 2026).
Our proven track record of bringing disruptive products to market and developing one consumer solution after another has allowed us to enter into multiple product categories, driving significant growth and market share gains. As we continue to innovate, typically our legacy products continue to be sold at more accessible price points, which diversifies our product offering across price points within a category and creates increasing market share positions. We believe our products have broad appeal across income brackets as we aim to deliver industry-leading innovation, design and product quality at compelling value. As a result, we aim to acquire market share from higher and lower priced competitors. We believe our products are aspirational, offering the performance of more expensive competitor products, and attainable, representing a compelling value.
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Scaled Engineering Powerhouse Focused on Disruptive Innovation and Continuous Optimization
SharkNinja aims to continuously innovate products that exceed consumer expectations.
To win in the market, we leverage the diverse expertise of our cross-functional design and engineering teams to capitalize on our deep knowledge of consumer needs. We have a dynamic, in-house global product design team located across the United States, the United Kingdom and China that collaborates seamlessly to integrate unique local market insights into the design and functionality of our products. Our engineering prowess drives our new product innovation, including design, construction, material performance requirements, manufacturing protocols, supplier selection, packaging specifications and quality assurance. Our scaled engineering organization possesses wide-ranging skillsets across mechanical design, mechatronics, electronics engineering, robotics, firmware, app and cloud, deep learning, algorithmic engineering and industrial design. Our team of over 700 cross-functional engineering and design associates is integrated across Shark and Ninja solutions, introducing disruptive technologies within our portfolio to new market segments, in addition to accessing the latest technologies from across the globe. The breadth of our engineering team’s competencies allows us to develop innovative products, while our global collaboration produces a rapid and iterative development cycle.
Our always-on consumer input fuels our world-class innovation. We deploy a wide variety of tools to understand what consumers need today and what will delight them tomorrow. In addition, through our development of local insights, we are able to design and develop products that are tailored for specific regions, and then leverage applicable insights across our global offering.
Our dynamic testing model tests our products to the extreme. We test across various environments, from our laboratories and simulated home facilities to restaurants, beauty salons and homes. This approach enables us to collect valuable input from category experts, professional users and everyday consumers. We use in-person consumer testing to gather direct observations and insights. We leverage internal software that scours product reviews to learn consumer likes and dislikes with existing solutions. Our qualitative and quantitative testing informs every stage of our design, engineering, manufacturing and marketing processes, during late-stage development and also through further refinements after product release.
Delivering Critical Consumer Value Points with Every Product
We believe that SharkNinja is differentiated by our ability to innovate while identifying and solving consumer pain points that others either do not see or are unable to solve. SharkNinja strives to deliver on all four of the following critical consumer value points in every innovative product we bring to market:
Speed: Deliver first-to-market disruptive innovations
Our global consumer insights and product development approach enables us to discover some of the most pressing consumer problems and develop innovative solutions to solve them. Our global product development team collaborates around the world, producing an ongoing cycle of development and increasing our speed of innovation and ultimately our speed to market. Whether it is a first-to-market innovation in an emerging category or our disruption of a mature category with new technologies, we redefine what is possible. Our differentiated pace of innovation enables us to be first-to-market in many product sub-categories. We have rapidly grown our market share and launched new products, often faster than our competitors, creating competitive advantages that are designed to deliver strong and sustainable growth.
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Performance: Deliver innovative high-performing products that exceed expectations and improve consumers’ quality of life
Our scaled global team of designers and engineers is passionate about delivering a high level of performance that increases consumers’ quality of life. Our products are designed to solve existing problems, often problems consumers do not even know they have. We rigorously test our products against our high-performance expectations under extreme use cases. Our product development process allows us to deliver innovative, high-performance technologies that are designed to meet or exceed consumers’ expectations. This is product performance in the pursuit of unwavering consumer trust.
Quality: Deliver a 5-star quality product experience, winning over consumers one review at a time
We know a discerning and educated consumer never gives you a second chance. Therefore, we focus on quality in designing our products and test repeatedly, recreating extreme cases of use and misuse to deliver high-quality products with long-lasting reliability in the real world. We have rigorous sourcing and manufacturing standards, and we maintain high-quality standards to which our manufacturing partners must adhere, including through frequent quality checks and manufacturing score cards. We are quick to react to negative feedback that we receive through our call centers, online reviews or on social media. We strive to deliver a seamless consumer experience with our products to ensure our consumers have a 5-star experience across the entirety of their journey with our products, starting from the very first use out of the box. We believe our pursuit of excellence in overall quality not only leads to more highly satisfied consumers, but also produces an army of global brand ambassadors.
Value: Deliver products at accessible prices for incredible value
We are obsessed with delivering world-class, innovative products to every consumer in every home in our global markets at great value. With our consumers always in mind, we have built hyper-efficient, global product design and supply chain organizations designed to deliver the perfect product at a compelling price. We believe that, in purchasing our products, our consumers receive the greatest value and a high level of performance for every hard-earned dollar they spend. We accomplish this through our design and manufacturing engineering team and our on-the-ground sourcing organization in Asia, which facilitates a competitive bidding process across numerous manufacturers to secure favorable pricing terms. Furthermore, we are a crucial partner to many of our manufacturers given the scale of our brands. This allows us to enter new categories that are dominated by a few big players, disrupt them through innovation and compelling value and grow the overall market while gaining market share.
Open and Agile Manufacturing and Supply Chain
Our open and highly scalable manufacturing base and supply chain achieve competitive costs as well as high quality and performance. While competitors are limited by a traditional linear manufacturing model, our iterative method gives us multiple opportunities to optimize our products. We have developed and invested in this approach for years, to help ensure maximum control and flexibility over production. This approach drives our goal of delivering 5-star products the first time off the line and at high global volumes.
Omni-channel Strategy Driven by Consumer-focused Storytelling
We have secured a leading position in most of our product sub-categories in the United States, in part, by establishing differentiated channel strategies and a robust omni-channel sales, marketing and distribution network. We adopt distribution channel strategies tailored to specific regions and deliver innovative products specific to local needs. Our products are available, often with disproportionate share of shelf, across retailers in each channel and online. Innovation across our product offerings further drives our share of shelf and our category growth. Shark and Ninja serve as the category captains, the market leaders, in a majority of our most important sub-categories.
Our goal is to be the most relevant and prominent brand wherever consumers shop. Our always-on media strategy leverages the power of storytelling to educate consumers about our technologies and performance. We leverage many forms of media, including television, digital advertising, print and social.
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Category-leading trusted brands with a diverse product portfolio across the home
Our diverse product portfolio spans 36 household sub-categories, across Cleaning, Cooking and Beverage, Food Preparation and Other, which includes Home Environment and Beauty.
Ninja has been an innovative and trusted kitchen brand for well over a decade. In 2009, we launched the Ninja Master Prep blender, which enabled consumers to produce restaurant-quality, at-home frozen drinks. We rapidly emerged as a leading player in the mature blender category, and we have maintained our leading position by evolving our products: Ninja is America’s #1 blending and processing kitchen system brand in the last four consecutive years, according to Circana. We have expanded Ninja into a portfolio of food preparation and cooking appliances (electric and non-electric). Today, we believe we are becoming the brand of choice for consumers: Ninja is the best-selling small kitchen appliances in the United States, according to Circana.
Our Shark brand, which we believe is synonymous with power and versatility, has transcended across small household appliance sub-categories, leveraging the credibility of its award-winning brand. Shark is the #1 vacuum brand in the United States in dollar sales, according to Circana. Additionally, Shark is the top growing hair styling brand in the United States, according to Circana.
Our Growth Strategies
Our highly diversified business is powered by trusted brands, which enables us to drive sustainable long-term global growth. We have broadened our geographic footprint and scale into new product categories and markets that reach more consumers in the pursuit of our mission to positively impact people’s lives every day in every home in our global markets. Our goal is to expand and strengthen relationships with our existing consumers and cultivate relationships with new consumers to drive our continued growth and profitability.
We believe we are well-positioned for continued growth driven by the following strategies:
Grow Share in Existing Categories
Innovation by using consumer insights to identify and develop solutions enables us to maintain and grow share in our existing product categories
We build products to delight discerning, educated global consumers who only trust brands that have proven their worth. We aim to offer our consumers the technologies of tomorrow, today. Our global consumer insights and product development approach enable us to deliver innovative solutions for pressing consumer problems that others either do not see or are unable to solve. Combining our speed of innovation and engineering expertise with our ability to translate consumer insights into tangible outputs helps us gain a significant share of the market, which propels and sustains our growth and profitability.
Our model of innovation and optimization enables us to consistently launch new technologically-advanced products in order to satisfy our consumers’ evolving needs and preferences. Once we have entered a category, we consistently launch new products with additional high-quality features and functionality while we simultaneously identify ways to optimize the cost of the existing products that we are selling. This approach allows us to reach additional price points, create a diversified lineup of products and expand our presence on retailers’ shelves.
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Leveraging our always-on media marketing drives awareness and educates consumers on product technologies and innovative solutions across both new and existing categories
Our global marketing organization is designed to deploy 360-degree marketing strategies that capture the hearts and minds of consumers worldwide. By leveraging solution-based storytelling across omni-channel media, we educate and create awareness of our technology solutions and new products, ultimately driving high volumes of traffic and interest across all channels. When a consumer arrives at the shelf, in store or online, we want them to find SharkNinja products across a wide range of price points offering various solutions with clear benefit-oriented messaging. We believe in communicating for impact because consumer-relevant storytelling has the ability to make products go viral, enabling us to reach more consumers and drive our continued growth.
Expand Our Brands in New Categories
We believe SharkNinja is uniquely equipped to disrupt massive and fragmented markets through our proprietary consumer insights and innovative product development approach. We have a proven track record of launching game-changing innovations and rapidly capturing market share across sub-categories. We believe we are not limited by our current categories, because our cross-functional design and engineering capabilities allow us to enter adjacent and altogether new categories. We intend to continue to enter new categories around the home by:
Leveraging our proprietary innovation process to identify new opportunities
Our proprietary innovation process enables us to proactively identify and develop consumer solutions. We incorporate frequent and detailed consumer feedback in our dynamic product development process, allowing us to iterate on and improve our products throughout development and identify new adjacent opportunities. We scour ratings and reviews using proprietary software to find and understand opportunities to improve the consumer experience. This always-on dialogue with the consumer leads to our identification of unsolved consumer pain points in multiple new categories.
Adapting technologies and engineering new solutions to solve consumer problems in new areas
Our global, cross-functional product development and engineering teams are aiming to improve our consumer solutions. Leveraging these teams’ expertise, we solve consumer problems that we have uncovered, adapt our technologies to new uses or solve new problems from scratch.
Expanding the product assortment and retailer placements of our new categories
Within the new categories we enter, we expand our product assortment, further disrupting these markets and growing retailer placements of our new products.
We consistently launch into new categories to bring original consumer-centric innovations to market. Year after year, SharkNinja has accelerated its pace of growth by entering and capturing share in 38 sub-categories, swiftly disrupting and gaining leading market share in many of them. In the past three years alone, we have entered and disrupted the following product sub-categories: outdoor ovens, carbonation, drinkware, wet/dry cleaning floor products, carpet extraction, fans, coolers, frozen drink appliances, skincare, propane grills and fire pits. These new product sub-categories not only increase our household penetration but also expand use occasions, the number of products per home and our brand presence across households.
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Globalize Our Brand
We operate in 38 markets and our international expansion remains a key area of strategic focus. In 2014, we transformed our United Kingdom model from a distributor model to a direct SharkNinja operation and unleashed a new phase of category expansion and market share gains. Since shifting to a direct SharkNinja operation, we scaled the United Kingdom business to net sales of $964 million in 2025. With the success of our direct model in the United Kingdom, SharkNinja has captured significant share across all major categories in which we operate, and in 2020, we began leveraging our success in the United Kingdom to drive further expansion across Europe, particularly in Germany and France. We have been able to consistently leverage this model to successfully enter and meaningfully grow in new markets.
Our international presence enables us to develop local consumer insights to create new consumer-driven innovations that we are able to offer globally. We are confident that globalizing our brand will help drive synergistic growth.
Drive Operating Margins and Efficiencies
At SharkNinja, we are rarely satisfied. That tenacious spirit extends beyond producing some of the world’s most innovative and technologically advanced household appliances, to our production processes and the way we operate. We have built an agile and quality-oriented supply chain with ample capacity to support future growth. We intend to grow our margins by enhancing our product mix through innovation and by pursuing additional cost-saving opportunities. We achieved a gross margin of 49.0% for the year ended December 31, 2025; we view our gross margin as a competitive advantage providing us with significant flexibility over how much we invest in our R&D, selling and marketing and other growth-oriented investments.
Our Culture and People
At SharkNinja, we are intensely dedicated to delivering on our mission of positively impacting people’s lives, every day in every home. We succeed because when others say “it’s good enough” we keep going; we strive to do everything possible to make our products as good as they can possibly be. When we do this right, we have the opportunity to create something great: as a company, as a team and as individuals. Five success drivers permeate everything we do at SharkNinja:
We are rarely satisfied. We “dream big” and set ambitious aspirations because we have high expectations for our own success. When we achieve a goal, we set the next “beacon” and align our entire team around it. We use our grit and resiliency to drive us to the next milestone and achieve success in the marketplace.
We believe in progress over perfection. We believe that it is more important to make a decision, start executing and course-correct as needed and encourage a highly proactive mindset. Our engineers and designers embrace change and evaluate feedback from consumers and professionals as part of our agile development process and iteration, helping ensure that when our products go to market we are confident that they are high-quality, will resonate with consumers and will deliver superior performance at great value relative to our competitors’ products.
We believe details make the difference. We invest to understand how things really work, seek out new perspectives and inputs and feel compelled to challenge assumptions and ask the second- and third-order questions to find the best possible way of doing something. We question and challenge the status quo, assessing whether we can do things faster or better.
We believe winning is a team sport. We make better decisions when we bring our collective minds to the table. We align ourselves around clear expectations and own the big-picture outcomes, actively holding ourselves and others accountable for delivering exceptional results.
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We believe that success comes when we communicate for impact. We share information and bring our broad teams together to iterate and align on our thinking. We challenge assumptions and are open to challenge without taking it personally.
As of December 31, 2025, approximately 4,143 employees located in approximately 13 countries and 31 offices drive our success. We were voted one of the “100 Best Large Companies to Work For” in 2025 by Built In. We believe that our award-winning culture ultimately drives our success across our brands and with our consumers.
Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Logistics
Our manufacturing, supply chain and logistics reflect our intensive focus on quality and performance. We distinguish ourselves not only through our products and our brands but also through our commitment to refining every detail across our manufacturing, supply chain and logistics. Our supply chain infrastructure harnesses three differentiating factors: factory partnerships, factory flexibility and inbound freight. Our partnerships enable us to move rapidly from an idea on a whiteboard to full production, collaborating to drive quality and reduce cost. Whenever possible, we require our factory partners to possess the flexibility to make changes to purchase orders if production has not yet occurred and typically only require purchase orders 30 days in advance of the cargo ready date for shipping. Lastly, our volumes and long-term strategic partnerships with key shippers allow us to attain competitive inbound freight rates, even when the market is constrained.
We manage the design of our products and oversee the quality assurance programs and manufacturing standards applied across our supply chain. Although we do not manufacture any of our own products, we have relationships with various third-party suppliers to manufacture our products. These suppliers are responsible for the assembly of our products and are primarily based in China. We also work with certain suppliers in various regions across Southeast Asia, including Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Cambodia. Our suppliers are often responsible for the sourcing of components used to manufacture our products but in certain instances, we directly source these components from sub-suppliers and pay for and own certain tooling and equipment used by our suppliers in assembly. Further, we have made significant investments in local talent to manage production as well as ensure quality and competitive costs with employees on the ground in Asia who work directly with many of our suppliers. These employees work closely with owner-operated factories to ensure that our products meet our strenuous quality standards and to enable maximum flexibility and input in the manufacturing process.
There are no existing long-term manufacturing contracts on which we are substantially dependent. While we have selected suppliers for commercial and operational reasons, we believe that there are alternative firms that we can engage to supply products of the same or similar quality, in similar quantities and on substantially similar terms as our current suppliers. Further, most of our products are dual-sourced, enabling us to maintain a competitive sourcing environment among our suppliers, and we deploy a rigorous bidding process to secure favorable pricing across our entire supply chain. We have leveraged pre-existing supplier relationships to scale our supply chain and enter new categories more quickly. Today, we have established direct and strong relationships with our suppliers. We annually require and assist in processes to remove costs from production, allowing our legacy innovations to compete against less capable, lower-priced competitors.
Our global commitment to quality flows through every stage of the design, development, production and post-production process. This quality assurance program requires that inspection and testing are completed by SharkNinja employees prior to a product leaving the factory and feeds into ongoing product design and production improvement reviews.
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To further manage our supply chain, we have developed a dedicated Supply Planning team that compares demand forecasts to inventory on hand and production and inbound forecasts. We regularly track our inventory with retailers to assess how each product is performing on the shelf. Through our proprietary data and tracking process, we understand when it is time to shift shelf space towards more in-demand models. This approach allows us to deliver a wide variety of solutions in a category and maintain our average price point across each brand by phasing out older models as we introduce newer ones. However, several of our legacy products, which we refine and optimize over time, continue to see strong demand, and remain prominently on shelves, including the Ninja Mega Kitchen System which was introduced in 2012 and the Shark Navigator Lift-Away which was introduced in 2010. By producing leading-edge innovations and leveraging our proprietary data and processes, we have been able to reduce our obsolete inventory rates. In addition, we have numerous retail and direct-to-consumer (“DTC”) third-party logistics (“3PL”) distribution centers across North America and Europe: eight 3PL distribution centers in the United States, three in Canada, two in Mexico and eleven in Europe.
Marketing & Consumer Engagement
Our global marketing organization deploys a variety of marketing strategies across outlets that capture the hearts and minds of our consumers. Today, our global marketing organization consists of over 283 employees in offices across North America, Europe and Asia, with functions spanning brand marketing, digital marketing and retail product marketing.
Our marketing strategy is focused on growing our army of ambassadors by leveraging large-scale, omni-channel media strategies, powerful consumer data and dynamic product storytelling to educate and create awareness of our solutions. Our differentiated storytelling complements our innovative products and has the ability to make our products go viral and attract new consumers to our brands. Just like our products, our marketing strategy is solutions-driven, focused on educating the consumer about a consumer problem and highlighting our innovative solution. We bring the consumer along in the story of the technology we have developed. This approach engages the consumer and fuels demand for our solutions, which span across our product offerings.
We leverage diverse and cost-effective means to educate consumers and inspire conversion across all our marketing channels. We run our always-on marketing campaign for both Shark and Ninja products. We run campaigns ranging from 28-minute long-form infomercials to 15 and 30 second short-form commercials. We additionally utilize social media on a variety of apps, display advertisements and engage in search engine optimization media and public relations. Further, we drive engagement on social / over-the-top platforms like YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok. Our marketing methods ensure that we support both our core categories and new product launches, rather than focusing on only the latest drop. Overall, we believe our media focus on solutions successfully creates a halo effect across Shark and Ninja, promoting both brands rather than a single product.
We possess a strong data-driven, fluid media planning and marketing strategy that is tailored to our various product offerings. When a consumer arrives at the shelf looking for a vacuum with a self-cleaning brushroll, or a blender with the ability to produce restaurant-quality drinks, we want the consumer to discover that solution in SharkNinja products at a variety of price points. The consumer can choose the right combination of attributes at the right price for their needs. This makes our marketing efforts exceptionally efficient, with advertising representing 9.9%, 10.6% and 9.6% of net sales in 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
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Our Customers & Sales Organization
Our Customers
We believe we create category demand across our categories, which effectively positions us to sell our products at most major retailers, never practicing retail exclusivity. Our innovation, performance, quality and value make our products desirable to carry, and we can drive significant traffic into stores. We have low retailer concentration, with our largest customer representing 23.8% of net sales for the year ended December 31, 2025. As of December 31, 2025, we partnered with 36 retailers across the United States and over 180 retailers globally. Our largest retailers include Amazon, Costco and Walmart, each of which accounted for more than 10% of our net sales, and together made up 45.7% of our net sales for the year ended December 31, 2025. We are one of fewer than 30 vendors selected to be part of the Amazon Global Vendor Management (“GVM”) program. Amazon’s GVM strategy intends to accelerate Amazon’s worldwide growth through prioritizing top-tier, globally important vendors via C-level engagement and formalized business planning, and we are capitalizing on market opportunities presented by our participation in this program.
Seasonality
We believe that our sales and results of operations are subject to seasonal fluctuations. We expect our net sales to be highest in our third and fourth quarters as a result of holiday shipments. Our sales are subject to fluctuations in retailer buying patterns as they manage their own inventory levels based on evolving strategies and trends. In addition, due to our more recent, and therefore more limited, experience with beauty and outdoor cooking products and accessories, we are continuing to analyze the seasonality of these products. We expect that this seasonality will continue to be a factor in our results of operations and sales.
Our Sales Organization
Today, our sales organization is made up of over 300 employees. Within our global sales organization we have dedicated team members working across e-commerce and retail marketing as well as strategic sales. E-commerce and retail marketing focus on e-commerce channels, retail digital strategy, e-commerce experience and co-op and trade marketing. Our strategic sales team members focus on pricing, channel and marketplace and sales, which focuses on replenishment, national accounts, sales operations, key accounts and account planning. We have developed a presence adjacent to many of our major retailers and growth regions, in Bentonville, Minneapolis, Toronto, Leeds, London, Munich and Paris in order to be in close contact with our key retailers.
Competition
We operate across numerous highly competitive product categories within the small appliance market. These categories are characterized by frequent product introductions and rapid technological advances. Our competitors vary by product category, and we operate across a diverse and growing range of product categories. We generally compete with other household appliances companies, which may also offer a wide variety of products, including vacuums, air purifiers, blenders, pressure cookers and other products. Given the breadth of our offerings across numerous categories, we compete with several established, well-known brands; however, there is no single competitor across all of the categories in which we compete.
Most of our competitors typically sell at a lower price point with some exceptions, such as Dyson and Vitamix. We have succeeded in the marketplace by capitalizing on the sale of product offerings situated in the mid-price range, taking market share from competitors who sell products at price points above and below our own. Shark competes with brands including Dyson, Hoover and Bissell. These competitors offer a broad array of vacuums and other floorcare appliances at different price points. Dyson also operates in Beauty, a category which we recently entered and within which we have rapidly grown our presence. Ninja competes with brands including Vitamix, De’Longhi, Breville, Hamilton Beach, Cuisinart and others. These competitors sell kitchen appliances such as blenders, food processors, pressure cookers, air fryers and other products at different price points.
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Competition in the various product categories in which we operate is based on a number of factors, including product quality, performance, technology, ease of use, reliability, durability, styling, brand image and recognition, safety and price.
Sustainability
Our mission is to positively impact people’s lives every day in every home around the world, and this includes our pursuit of a future-positive world. We are deeply committed to applying our strength in innovative thinking for the greater good through our commitment to being Product Positive, Planet Positive and People Positive, including through our Positive Impact Plan.
Product Positive: We aspire to continue designing innovative, smart and safe products that make a meaningful and measurable difference to the environment, society and our consumers’ lives.
Planet Positive: We pledge to use our deep knowledge to lead the way in remanufacturing and developing innovative and sustainable products that reduce landfill waste, minimize our carbon footprint and decrease our environmental impact.
People Positive: We commit to fostering a culture of inclusion that empowers our people to achieve their personal and professional aspirations, while making a societal impact in all the communities and geographies we serve.
Our Positive Impact Plan: As an organization, we are rarely satisfied. Progress for us is more important than perfection, which is why we believe that every small victory will make a big difference in bringing us closer to a future-positive world for all. Some of the ways in which we have implemented our Positive Impact Plan include product manufacturing to help keep our products out of landfills through refurbishing and remanufacturing, carbon offsetting by supporting high-quality, and Verified Carbon Standard projects.
Government Regulations
We are subject to many varying laws and regulations in the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and throughout the world, including those related to privacy, data protection, intellectual property, consumer protection, e-commerce, marketing, advertising, messaging, rights of publicity, health and safety, employment and labor, product liability, accessibility, competition and taxation. These laws and regulations are often evolving and may be interpreted, applied, created or amended in a manner that could harm our business, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, it is possible that certain governments may seek to block or limit our product features or products or otherwise impose other restrictions that may affect the accessibility or usability of any or all of our product features or products for an extended period of time or indefinitely.
We are also subject to U.S. and foreign laws and regulations that govern or restrict our business and activities in certain countries and with certain persons, including the U.S. Commerce Department’s Export Administration Regulations and economic and trade sanctions regulations maintained by OFAC, as well as anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws and regulations, including the FCPA and the U.K. Bribery Act 2010.
Data Privacy Laws and Regulations
Our business uses, collects, handles, stores, receives, transmits and otherwise processes consumer and other data. As a result, we are or will be subject to federal, state, local and international laws and regulations related to the privacy and protection of such data, such as the GDPR, the U.K. GDPR, the CCPA and the Data Protection Act (As Revised) of the Cayman Islands.
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The GDPR and U.K. GDPR regulate the processing of personal data within the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, respectively, that relates to a directly or indirectly identifiable individual and impose stringent data protection requirements on organizations with significant penalties for noncompliance. Continuing to maintain compliance with the requirements of the GDPR and the U.K. GDPR, including monitoring and adjusting to any divergence between the European Union and United Kingdom data protection regimes following the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union, may require changes to our products, policies, procedures, notices and business practices and may increase operating costs or limit our ability to operate or expand our business.
We are also subject to evolving European Union and U.K. privacy laws on cookies and e-marketing. In the European Union and the United Kingdom, regulators are increasingly focusing on compliance with requirements in the online behavioral advertising ecosystem.
In the United States, while there is not a single generally applicable federal law governing the processing of personal data, there are federal laws that apply to the processing of certain types of personal data, or the processing of personal data by certain types of entities, and the FTC and other enforcement agencies may bring enforcement actions against companies that engage in processing of personal data in a manner that constitutes an unfair or deceptive trade practice. In addition, all fifty states have enacted laws related to data privacy.
The CCPA grants California consumers robust data privacy rights and control over their personal information, including the right to notice, the right to disclosure, the right to delete, the right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of personal information that businesses collect, the right not to be discriminated against for exercise of CCPA rights, the right to request correction and the right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive personal information, as well as additional protections for minors. The CCPA applies to any enterprise that does business in California and has annual gross revenues in excess of $25 million (and meets certain other criteria), as well as certain other enterprises.
Regulators and legislators in jurisdictions around the world continue to propose and enact more stringent data protection and privacy laws. New laws as well as any significant changes to applicable laws, regulations, interpretations of laws or regulations, or market practices, regarding privacy and data protection, or regarding the manner in which we seek to comply with applicable laws and regulations, could require us to make modifications to our products, policies, procedures, notices and business practices, all of which may increase operating costs or limit our ability to operate or expand our business.
Any actual, alleged or perceived failure to comply with the laws of each jurisdiction or adequately protect personal data could result in damage to our reputation, negative publicity, loss of consumers and sales, loss of competitive advantages over our competitors, increased costs to remedy any problems, costs to provide any required notifications and consents (including to regulators and/or individuals) and otherwise respond to any incident, claims, regulatory investigations and enforcement actions, costly litigation, administrative fines and other liabilities.
Environmental, Health and Safety Matters
Our facilities and operations are subject to a limited number of environmental, health and safety laws and regulations in each of the jurisdictions in which we operate. Given that we rely on suppliers to manufacture our products, the principal environmental, health and safety laws that apply to our facilities and operations relate to safe use, storage and management of the few hazardous chemicals used in our operations, reporting inventories of certain hazardous chemicals stored at our facilities to state and local emergency responders and proper storage and management of batteries.
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Consumer Protection and Product Safety
We are subject to laws regulating consumer products in the jurisdictions in which our products are sold. In the United States for instance, certain of our products are subject to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Act, under which the CPSC may exclude products from the market that are found to be unsafe or hazardous, require repair, replacement or refunds of products, impose fines for noncompliance with requirements and impose fines for failure to timely notify them of potential safety hazards. In addition, certain of our packaging materials and products sold through, and/or facilities operated under, each of our business segments are regulated by the Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the FTC and other federal or state consumer protection and product safety agencies and are subject to the regulations such agencies enforce, as well as by similar state, foreign and multinational agencies and regulations.
Intellectual Property
The protection of our brands, technology and intellectual property is an important aspect of our business. In particular, we believe the Shark and Ninja brands are significant to the success of our business. We protect our intellectual property, including our brands, through a combination of trademarks, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, contractual provisions, confidentiality procedures and non-disclosure agreements. For example, we generally enter into confidentiality agreements and invention or work product assignment agreements with our employees and consultants to control access to, and clarify ownership of, our proprietary information. We protect our intellectual property rights in the United States and certain international jurisdictions. We believe these intellectual property rights, combined with our innovation and distinctive product design, performance, brand names and reputation, contribute to our competitive position and success of our business.
As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 2,752 issued trademark registrations and pending applications and 7,517 issued patents and pending patent applications in the United States and other jurisdictions. As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 1,087 issued U.S. patents and 574 U.S. patent applications pending. Our U.S. patents for our current products generally expire between 2026 and 2045, and cover rights related to the configuration, operation and design of many of our products, related subsystems and/or features. As of December 31, 2025, we also had approximately 4,509 issued foreign patents and 1,347 foreign patent applications pending.
We have a proactive online marketplace monitoring and seller/listing termination program to disrupt online counterfeit offerings. In addition, we work to shut down counterfeit stand-alone sites through litigation and administrative procedures.
We aggressively pursue and defend our intellectual property rights to protect our brands, designs and inventions. We have processes and procedures in place to identify, protect and optimize our intellectual property assets on a global basis. In the future, we intend to continue to seek intellectual property protection for our new products, technologies and processes that we believe are innovative and material, and we intend to take appropriate action to protect our intellectual property from those who infringe on these valuable assets.
Available Information
Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports, filed or furnished pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, are available, free of charge, on our website as soon as reasonably practicable after such reports are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). These reports may be accessed through our website's investor relations page at ir.sharkninja.com. Further, the SEC’s website, www.sec.gov, contains reports and other information regarding our filings. The information contained on the websites referenced in this Annual Report is not incorporated by reference into this filing.
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Investors, the media, and others should note that we announce material information to the public through filings with the SEC, the investor relations page on our website, press releases and public conference calls and webcasts. The information disclosed by the foregoing channels could be deemed to be material information. As such, we encourage investors, the media, and others to follow the channels listed above and to review the information disclosed through such channels. Any updates to the list of disclosure channels through which we will announce information will be posted on the investor relations page on our website.
Corporate Information
SharkNinja, Inc. was incorporated in the Cayman Islands on May 17, 2023 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of JS Global. The Company was incorporated for the purpose of completing the listing of the Company on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) and related transactions to carry on the business of SharkNinja Global SPV, Ltd., and its subsidiaries.
SharkNinja Global SPV, Ltd. was incorporated in 2017 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of JS Global. Prior to July 28, 2023, SharkNinja Global SPV, Ltd. operated as a combination of wholly-owned businesses of JS Global, which is a listed entity on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
On July 30, 2023, in connection with (1) the separation of the Company from JS Global (the “separation”) and (2) the distribution to the holders of JS Global ordinary shares of all of JS Global’s equity interest in SharkNinja Global SPV, Ltd. in the form of a dividend of the Company’s ordinary shares (the “distribution”), JS Global contributed all outstanding shares of SharkNinja Global SPV, Ltd. to SharkNinja, Inc. in exchange for shares of SharkNinja, Inc.
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