Hormel Foods: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Hormel Foods (NYSE: HRL) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Austin, Minnesota, United States that owns 8 consumer brands, and has 1 recorded transaction.[1]
Hormel Foods was founded in Austin, Minnesota in 1891 as a pork processor and is best known for Spam, which it invented in 1937. The Hormel Foundation holds a controlling block of shares, an arrangement set up to keep the company independent and headquartered in its home town.
Hormel bought the Planters nut business from Kraft Heinz, which was selling non-core brands to reduce debt after the failure of its cost-cutting strategy. It was the largest acquisition Hormel had made.