Who owns Birkel?
Birkel is owned by Princes Group (the United Kingdom, LSE: PRN).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Princes Group plc Annual Report and Accounts 2025, 24 April 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Princes Group plc reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, Liverpool
- Origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- Category
- Food › Meals & meal components › Pasta
- Parent ticker
- LSE: PRN
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Birkel
German pasta brand whose website offers standard, high-protein and gluten-free pasta, and which says the company has operated for 150 years. The site names Newlat GmbH of Mannheim as the owner. Newlat GmbH became a 100% subsidiary of Princes Group plc when NewPrinces S.p.A. transferred its German business to the group ahead of the 2025 London listing, as the annual report records.
Ownership timeline of Birkel
- Current owner Princes Group [1] reported
Where Birkel sits in Princes Group
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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See the full Princes Group brand portfolio (8) →
Other brands owned by Princes Group
Princes Group controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 8 of them in food.
Also in food
- 3 Glocken
- Crisp 'n Dry
- Crosse & Blackwell (1819)
- Minuto
- Napolina (1965)
- Princes (1880)
- Wielkopolski
Other brands in pasta, and who owns them
The 117 brands in pasta on Brandtree belong to 60 owners. The largest is Ebro Foods, with 15; Princes Group has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bertagni | Ebro Foods | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| Indomie | Indofood | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| Camil | Camil | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Mimee | Dufil Prima Foods | 🇳🇬 Nigeria |
| Don Vicente | Molinos | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Corticella | NewPrinces | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Chikin Ramen | Nissin Foods | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| La Cantonesa | CMI | 🇬🇹 Guatemala |
About the owner: Princes Group
Princes Group is a publicly listed company headquartered in Liverpool, United Kingdom, founded in 1880. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control, and it is listed as LSE: PRN.
Liverpool-based maker of canned fish, tomatoes, pulses, soups, edible oils and pasta, founded in 1880 as a canned fish business and listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange on 31 October 2025. It was owned by Mitsubishi Corporation from 1989 until 2024, when Newlat Food S.p.A. (now NewPrinces S.p.A.) bought it; NewPrinces S.p.A. holds 82.70% of the shares. Besides its own brands it is a large supplier of retailers' own-label products. It also runs brands under licence (Flora, Branston, Capri-Sun) that are not listed here, and its oils business, Edible Oils Limited, is a 50% joint operation with Archer Daniels Midland (UK).
Princes Group: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇩🇪 Birkel and other German brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 243 brands that began in Germany. 90 of them (37%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Birkel among them.
- Abraham — Bell Food Group 🇨🇭
- Aldi (Nord) — Aldi Nord 🇩🇪
- Aldi (Süd) — Aldi Süd 🇩🇪
- Almette — Hochland 🇩🇪
- Aptamil — Danone 🇫🇷
- BBQUE — Develey 🇩🇪
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Birkel?
The parent company of Birkel is Princes Group, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Is Birkel German or British?
Birkel originated in Germany, but it is owned today by Princes Group, which is headquartered in the United Kingdom. So Birkel is a German-origin brand under British ownership.
Is Birkel still owned by Princes Group?
Yes. As of 4 October 2026, Birkel is still owned by Princes Group. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
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] Princes Group plc Annual Report and Accounts 2025 — Princes Group plc, Annual report, published 24 April 2026; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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