Who owns Chaochai?
Chaochai is owned by Sempio (South Korea, KRX: 248170).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Sempio Foods Company Business Report (사업보고서) for fiscal year 2025, filed with DART, 13 March 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Sempio Foods Company reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇰🇷 South Korea, Seoul
- Origin
- 🇰🇷 South Korea
- Founded
- 2024
- Category
- Food › Condiments, sauces & seasonings › Sauces & ketchup
- Parent ticker
- KRX: 248170
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Chaochai
Chaochai is the Chinese-cuisine brand Sempio launched in 2024; the name means "outstanding dish". Sempio says it spent five years with Chinese-cuisine chefs developing 19 products for dishes that are hard to make at home, such as dongpo pork, gochu japchae and mala xiangguo. The range includes jajang for the microwave, as a sauce and as a noodle kit, jjamppong, mapo tofu, malatang, hot pot and Chinese cooking sauces.
Ownership timeline of Chaochai
Where Chaochai sits in Sempio
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Sempio
Sempio controls 7 brands on Brandtree, 7 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in sauces & ketchup, and who owns them
The 95 brands in sauces & ketchup on Brandtree belong to 53 owners. The largest is Develey, with 6; Sempio has 5.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bautz'ner | Develey | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Chungjungone | Daesang | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Haitian | Haitian | 🇨🇳 China |
| Búfalo | Grupo Herdez | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
| A.1. | Kraft Heinz | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Las Palmas | B&G Foods | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Erisco | Erisco Foods | 🇳🇬 Nigeria |
| Hon Tsuyu | Kikkoman | 🇯🇵 Japan |
About the owner: Sempio
Sempio is a publicly listed company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 2016. Brandtree records 7 brands under its control, and it is listed as KRX: 248170.
Sempio Foods is a South Korean food company best known for soy sauce and other fermented sauces (jang). It also makes the Yondu cooking essence, Baengnyeon Dongan black vinegar, Fontana Western foods, T'Asia Asian foods and Ziller jerky. The Sempio business began on 20 August 1946. The present company was split from Sempio Corporation on 1 July 2016 to take over its food business and was relisted on the Korea Exchange on 9 August 2016; Sempio Corporation holds 49.38%. In 2025 jang made up 233.3 billion won, or 51.3%, of sales, and other products 221.7 billion won.
🇰🇷 Chaochai and other South Korean brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 237 brands that began in South Korea. 12 of them (5%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Chaochai is not one of them.
- Absolute — Maeil Dairies 🇰🇷
- Ace — Haitai 🇰🇷
- Banana-Flavored Milk — Binggrae 🇰🇷
- Buldak — Samyang Foods 🇰🇷
- Bulgaris — Namyang Dairy 🇰🇷
- Chapagetti — Nongshim 🇰🇷
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Chaochai?
The parent company of Chaochai is Sempio, a publicly listed company headquartered in South Korea.
Is Chaochai South Korean?
Yes. Chaochai originated in South Korea in 2024 and its owner, Sempio, is also headquartered in South Korea.
Is Chaochai still owned by Sempio?
Yes. As of 26 October 2026, Chaochai is still owned by Sempio. 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] Sempio Foods Company Business Report (사업보고서) for fiscal year 2025, filed with DART — Sempio Foods Company, Stock exchange filing, published 13 March 2026; retrieved 26 October 2026.
- [2] Sempio — 샘표 80년 (history) — Sempio Foods Company, Official document; retrieved 26 October 2026.
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