Who owns Chef Boyardee?
Chef Boyardee is owned by Conagra Brands (the United States, NYSE: CAG).[1]
Evidence: Conagra Brands, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-07-15, SEC EDGAR, 15 July 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Conagra Brands, Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Chicago, Illinois
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States, Cleveland, Ohio
- Founded
- 1928 by Ettore Boiardi
- Category
- Food › Meals & meal components › Canned & shelf-stable meals
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: CAG
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Chef Boyardee
Chef Boyardee is named after Ettore Boiardi, an Italian immigrant chef whose Cleveland restaurant customers kept asking for his sauce to take home. The spelling was changed so Americans would pronounce it correctly. His plants supplied ration packs to Allied troops during the Second World War.
What Conagra Brands's annual report says about Chef Boyardee
Sentences about Chef Boyardee from Conagra Brands's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Fiscal 2026 and 2025 included $7.0 million and $385.9 million, respectively, of net sales related to our Chef Boyardee business, which was sold in the first quarter of fiscal 2026.
Fiscal 2026 and 2025 included $1.1 million and $43.1 million, respectively, of net sales related to our Chef Boyardee business.
The 2024 Term Loan and 2025 Term Loan repayments were also partially funded by the proceeds received in connection with the sale of our Chef Boyardee business.
How often Conagra Brands names Chef Boyardee in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Chef Boyardee
- Current owner Conagra Brands [1] verified
Where Chef Boyardee sits in Conagra Brands
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Conagra Brands
Conagra Brands controls 17 brands on Brandtree, 17 of them in food.
Also in food
- Act II (1984)
- Angie's Boomchickapop (2001)
- Banquet (1953)
- Birds Eye (North America) (1930)
- Duncan Hines (1951)
- Frontera (1996)
- Gardein (2003)
- Healthy Choice (1989)
- Hunt's (1888)
- Marie Callender's (1948)
- Orville Redenbacher's (1970)
- PAM (1961)
- Reddi-wip (1948)
- Slim Jim (1929)
- Udi's (1994)
- Vlasic (1942)
Other brands in canned & shelf-stable meals, and who owns them
The 74 brands in canned & shelf-stable meals on Brandtree belong to 43 owners. The largest is Thai Union, with 13.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken of the Sea | Thai Union | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| Albert Heijn | Ahold Delhaize | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
| Bonduelle | Bonduelle | 🇫🇷 France |
| Heinz Baked Beans | Kraft Heinz | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Aunt Nellie's | Seneca Foods | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Aldi (Nord) | Aldi Nord | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Aldi (Süd) | Aldi Süd | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| 365 by Whole Foods Market | Amazon | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Conagra Brands
Conagra Brands is a publicly listed company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States, founded in 1919. Brandtree records 17 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: CAG.
Conagra Brands began in 1919 as Nebraska Consolidated Mills, a flour miller, and spent decades assembling a portfolio of frozen and shelf-stable food brands. It sold its private-label business in 2016 to focus on brands, then bought Pinnacle Foods in 2018 to add Birds Eye and Duncan Hines.
Conagra Brands: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Chef Boyardee and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Chef Boyardee is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Chef Boyardee?
The parent company of Chef Boyardee is Conagra Brands, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Chef Boyardee American?
Yes. Chef Boyardee originated in the United States in 1928 and its owner, Conagra Brands, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Chef Boyardee still owned by Conagra Brands?
Yes. As of 11 October 2026, Chef Boyardee is still owned by Conagra Brands. 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] Conagra Brands, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-07-15 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 15 July 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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