Who owns Criollo?
Criollo is owned by La Fabril (Ecuador).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: La Fabril — Quiénes somos, La Fabril S.A. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- La Fabril S.A. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇪🇨 Ecuador
- Origin
- 🇪🇨 Ecuador
- Category
- Food › Condiments, sauces & seasonings › Cooking oils
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Criollo
Criollo is one of the cooking oils La Fabril packs at its Ecuadorian plants, sold alongside La Favorita and Sabroson in the same aisle rather than against it. Like them it carries the INEN quality seal issued against Ecuador's national standard for edible vegetable oil, which is the mark shoppers there look for on a bottle of frying oil.
Ownership timeline of Criollo
Where Criollo sits in La Fabril
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by La Fabril
La Fabril controls 13 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in cooking oils, and who owns them
The 67 brands in cooking oils on Brandtree belong to 30 owners. The largest is Avril, with 8; La Fabril has 4.
About the owner: La Fabril
La Fabril is a privately held company headquartered in Ecuador, founded in 1935. Brandtree records 13 brands under its control.
La Fabril is an Ecuadorian manufacturer constituted in 1935 that began operating in 1968 under Carlos González-Artigas Díaz, and it now leads the country in fats, oils, oleochemicals, biofuels and cleaning and hygiene products. In 2002 it bought the La Favorita oils and fats factory from Unilever, brands included, which made it the largest edible oils and fats business in Ecuador. It calls itself "the industry of ideas" and has run its own oils and fats research centre since the 1990s; it says it was the first company in Latin America to fractionate palm kernel oil to make cocoa butter substitutes.
🇪🇨 Criollo and other Ecuadorian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 38 brands that began in Ecuador. 2 of them (5%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Criollo is not one of them.
- Fritz — Pronaca 🇪🇨
- Juris — Sigma Foods 🇲🇽
- Akí — Corporación Favorita 🇪🇨
- EP Petroecuador — Petroecuador 🇪🇨
- LATAM Airlines Ecuador — LATAM 🇨🇱
- Gustadina — Pronaca 🇪🇨
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Criollo?
The parent company of Criollo is La Fabril, a privately held company headquartered in Ecuador.
Is Criollo Ecuadorian?
Yes. Criollo originated in Ecuador and its owner, La Fabril, is also headquartered in Ecuador.
Is Criollo still owned by La Fabril?
Yes. As of 24 September 2026, Criollo is still owned by La Fabril. 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] La Fabril — Quiénes somos — La Fabril S.A., Official document; retrieved 24 September 2026.
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