Who owns Danusia?
Danusia is owned by Wawel (Poland, WSE: WWL).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Wawel S.A. Annual Report 2025: Report of the Management Board on the activities of Wawel S.A. for 2025, 18 March 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Wawel S.A. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇵🇱 Poland, Kraków
- Origin
- 🇵🇱 Poland, Kraków
- Category
- Food › Confectionery › Chocolate
- Parent ticker
- WSE: WWL
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Danusia
Danusia is a Wawel chocolate whose recipe, the company says, has been unchanged for almost a hundred years. Its history credits Adam Piasecki, the confectioner whose Kraków business Wawel traces itself to, with devising it in the 1920s and naming it after an employee he was taken with. It has a chocolate and nut filling in thin, crumbly chocolate, and now also comes in coconut and in a raspberry version called Danusia Beauty.
Ownership timeline of Danusia
Where Danusia sits in Wawel
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Wawel
Wawel controls 9 brands on Brandtree, 9 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in chocolate, and who owns them
The 132 brands in chocolate on Brandtree belong to 46 owners. The largest is Mars, with 9; Wawel has 8.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bounty | Mars | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Cadbury | Mondelēz | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Elizabeth Shaw | Colian | 🇵🇱 Poland |
| Baby Ruth | Ferrero | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Almond Joy | Hershey | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Caffarel | Lindt & Sprüngli | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Eitt Sett | Nói Síríus | 🇮🇸 Iceland |
| Águila | Arcor | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
About the owner: Wawel
Wawel is a publicly listed company headquartered in Kraków, Poland, founded in 1951. Brandtree records 9 brands under its control, and it is listed as WSE: WWL.
Wawel is a Kraków confectionery maker that dates its history to the shop the confectioner Adam Piasecki bought on Długa Street in 1898. The state enterprise Zakłady Przemysłu Cukierniczego Wawel was formed in January 1951, became a joint-stock company on privatisation in 1992 and debuted on the Warsaw Stock Exchange on 11 March 1998. It moved its three Kraków plants to a single factory at Dobczyce from 2006. Chocolate products made 72.2 per cent of its 739.4 million złoty of revenue in 2025. Hosta International AG of Bottmingen, Switzerland, wholly owned by Laura Opferkuch, holds 52.14 per cent of the votes.
🇵🇱 Danusia and other Polish brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 91 brands that began in Poland. 18 of them (20%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Danusia is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Danusia?
The parent company of Danusia is Wawel, a publicly listed company headquartered in Poland.
Is Danusia Polish?
Yes. Danusia originated in Poland and its owner, Wawel, is also headquartered in Poland.
Is Danusia still owned by Wawel?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Danusia is still owned by Wawel. 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] Wawel S.A. Annual Report 2025: Report of the Management Board on the activities of Wawel S.A. for 2025 — Wawel S.A., Annual report, published 18 March 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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