Who owns Chi-Chi's?
Chi-Chi's is not wholly owned by any single company recorded here: Grupo Herdez (Mexico, BMV: HERDEZ) holds a 25% stake.[1]
Evidence: Grupo Herdez — corporate presentation, first quarter 2026, Grupo Herdez, S.A.B. de C.V. Last checked .
Key facts
- Largest stakeholder
- Grupo Herdez, S.A.B. de C.V. (25% stake) reported
- Headquarters
- 🇲🇽 Mexico
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Category
- Food › Condiments, sauces & seasonings › Sauces & ketchup
- Parent ticker
- BMV: HERDEZ
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Chi-Chi's
Chi-Chi's is a US Mexican-food brand covering salsas, chiles, tortillas, tortilla chips, dips and seasonings. It was one of the brands listed when Hormel Foods and Herdez Del Fuerte formed MegaMex Foods as a 50/50 joint venture in 2009, so Grupo Herdez holds a quarter of it through its half of Herdez Del Fuerte and Hormel holds half directly through MegaMex.
Ownership timeline of Chi-Chi's
Where Chi-Chi's sits in Grupo Herdez
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
- Blasón (50%)
- Búfalo (50%)
- Del Fuerte (50%)
- Doña María (50%)
- Embasa (50%)
- Herdez (50%)
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Other brands owned by Grupo Herdez
Grupo Herdez controls 7 brands on Brandtree, 6 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; Grupo Herdez has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bautz'ner | Develey | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Chungjungone | Daesang | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Haitian | Haitian | 🇨🇳 China |
| Chaochai | Sempio | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| A.1. | Kraft Heinz | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Las Palmas | B&G Foods | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Erisco | Erisco Foods | 🇳🇬 Nigeria |
| Hon Tsuyu | Kikkoman | 🇯🇵 Japan |
About the owner: Grupo Herdez
Grupo Herdez is a publicly listed company headquartered in Mexico, founded in 1914.
Grupo Herdez is a Mexican food company that dates from 1914, when Compañía Comercial Herdez was founded in Monterrey as a distributor, and has been listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange since 1991. Few of its famous brands are wholly its own. Herdez, Doña María, Búfalo and Del Fuerte sit in Herdez Del Fuerte, a 50/50 company formed with Grupo KUO in 2008; its US business is MegaMex Foods, owned 50 per cent by Herdez Del Fuerte and 50 per cent by Hormel Foods; and it holds half of Barilla México. On 2 January 2026 it completed the sale of 25 per cent of McCormick de México to McCormick & Company for US$750 million, keeping 25 per cent, and in September 2025 it separated its retail arm as the independently listed Grupo Nutrisa.
Grupo Herdez: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Chi-Chi's and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,570 brands that began in the United States. 501 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Chi-Chi's among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who owns Chi-Chi's?
No single company recorded here owns Chi-Chi's outright. Grupo Herdez holds a 25% stake.
Does Grupo Herdez control Chi-Chi's?
No. A 25% holding does not give control, so Grupo Herdez shares ownership with others.
Where did Chi-Chi's come from?
Chi-Chi's originated in the United States.
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] Grupo Herdez — corporate presentation, first quarter 2026 — Grupo Herdez, S.A.B. de C.V., Official document; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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