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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.

Company facts

Legal name
Hormel Foods Corporation
Type
publicly listed company · see all publicly listed company owners
Headquarters
🇺🇸 Austin, Minnesota, United States
Founded
1891
Tickers
NYSE: HRL
SEC CIK
0000048465
Wikidata
Q1632987
Website
www.hormelfoods.com
Last verified
· 1 sources

Hormel Foods in numbers

Everything Hormel Foods owns

2026

Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.

Everything Hormel Foods owns Tree of 8 brands under Hormel Foods. Hormel Foods Applegate Columbus Dinty Moore Jennie-O Planters Skippy Spam Wholly

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Brand portfolio by category

Full portfolio, 8 brands, with sources →

Acquisitions by Hormel Foods

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Hormel Foods acquires Planters

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.

Value
$3.35bn
Regulatory
None recorded

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Frequently asked questions

What brands does Hormel Foods own?

Hormel Foods owns 8 consumer brands tracked here, including Columbus, Spam, Applegate, Jennie-O, Wholly and Planters.

Is Hormel Foods an American company?

Yes. Hormel Foods is headquartered in Austin, Minnesota, United States and was founded in 1891.

Who owns Hormel Foods?

Hormel Foods is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as HRL on the NYSE.

What was Hormel Foods' most recent acquisition?

The most recent completed acquisition recorded here is Planters on 7 June 2021.

Sources (1) & corrections

Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.

  1. [1] Hormel Foods Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-12-05 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 5 December 2025; retrieved 6 September 2026.

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