Who owns Baby Gourmet?
Baby Gourmet is owned by Hero Group (Switzerland), which has owned the brand since 18 January 2021.[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Hero Group — Annual Report 2025, Hero AG. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Hero AG reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland, Lenzburg
- Origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada, Calgary
- Category
- Food › Baby & infant food › Baby meals & snacks
- Trademark registrant
- Baby Gourmet Foods Inc. (USPTO)
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Baby Gourmet
Baby Gourmet is the Canadian baby and toddler brand Hero runs from Calgary and sells across North America. In 2025 it introduced fruit and yoghurt smoothies in pouches, peach puffs, extruded snacks filled with vegetables and mini bites made from oats, fruit and vegetables, which Hero counts inside the baby and toddler snacking part of its Better Snacking category.
Trademark record for Baby Gourmet
The USPTO record for the Baby Gourmet mark lists Baby Gourmet Foods Inc. as the owner of record (serial number 77201166). A trademark is often held by a group company rather than the listed parent, so the registrant's name can differ from the owner named above.[2]
Ownership timeline of Baby Gourmet
- 2021 – present Hero Group [1] reported
Where Baby Gourmet sits in Hero Group
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Hero Group
Hero Group controls 16 brands on Brandtree, 16 of them in food.
Also in food
- Beech-Nut
- Corny (1984)
- Deliciously Ella
- Freche Freunde
- Goodies (2024)
- Hero (1910)
- Hero Baby (1985)
- Hero Solo
- Organix
- Queensberry (1988)
- Schwartau
- Semper
- Sunar
- The Gut Stuff
- Vitrac (1981)
Other brands in baby meals & snacks, and who owns them
Hero Group has more brands in baby meals & snacks on Brandtree than any other owner: 6 of 20.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Promina | Indofood | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| Cerelac | Nestlé | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Cerifam | Faffa Food | 🇪🇹 Ethiopia |
| Good Goût | H&H Group | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong |
| Earth's Best | Hain Celestial | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Anmum | Lactalis | 🇫🇷 France |
| Kiddylicious | Lotus Bakeries | 🇧🇪 Belgium |
| Love Child Organics | Nature's Path | 🇨🇦 Canada |
About the owner: Hero Group
Hero Group is a privately held company headquartered in Lenzburg, Switzerland, founded in 1886. Brandtree records 16 brands under its control.
Hero is a privately held Swiss food company founded in 1886 in Lenzburg, where its headquarters still are. Arend Oetker acquired a majority shareholding in 1995 and a member of the Oetker family sits on its board. It reported net sales of CHF 1,187 million in 2025 across three categories: Better Snacking, Naturally Good Food, which holds the jams it has made for more than a century, and Others, which holds baby and toddler milk. The Hero 2035 strategy introduced in 2025 committed the group to snacking, and its purchases have followed it: Deliciously Ella in 2024, the Brazilian snack brand Pinati in 2025 and The Gut Stuff in 2026.
🇨🇦 Baby Gourmet and other Canadian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 174 brands that began in Canada. 41 of them (24%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Baby Gourmet among them.
- Alexis de Portneuf — Saputo 🇨🇦
- EnviroKidz — Nature's Path 🇨🇦
- Fantino & Mondello — Maple Leaf Foods 🇨🇦
- Freybe — Premium Brands 🇨🇦
- Gardein — Conagra Brands 🇺🇸
- High Liner — High Liner Foods 🇨🇦
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Baby Gourmet?
The parent company of Baby Gourmet is Hero Group, a privately held company headquartered in Switzerland.
Is Baby Gourmet Canadian or Swiss?
Baby Gourmet originated in Canada, but it is owned today by Hero Group, which is headquartered in Switzerland. So Baby Gourmet is a Canadian-origin brand under Swiss ownership.
Since when has Hero Group owned Baby Gourmet?
Hero Group has owned Baby Gourmet since 18 January 2021.
Is Baby Gourmet still owned by Hero Group?
Yes. As of 2 October 2026, Baby Gourmet is still owned by Hero Group. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (2) & 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] Hero Group — Annual Report 2025 — Hero AG, Annual report; retrieved 27 September 2026.
- [2] USPTO: BABY GOURMET, serial 77201166 — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark registry; retrieved 2 October 2026.
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