Who owns Ensure?
Ensure is owned by Abbott (the United States, NYSE: ABT).[1]
Evidence: Abbott Laboratories Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-20, SEC EDGAR, 20 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Abbott Laboratories verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Abbott Park, Illinois
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Category
- Food › Nutrition & supplements › Meal replacement & weight management
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: ABT
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Ensure
Ensure is Abbott's adult nutrition drink, sold as a ready-to-drink shake to people who are not managing to eat enough — after surgery, during illness, or in old age — and increasingly to people who buy it as a protein supplement instead. Abbott's 10-K lists Ensure, Ensure Plus, Ensure NutriVigor, Ensure Max Protein and Ensure High Protein. Adult nutrition sales grew 2.7 per cent in 2025 excluding currency effects, with international growth offsetting a fall in the United States.
What Abbott's annual report says about Ensure
Sentences about Ensure from Abbott's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
International Adult Nutritionals sales, excluding the effect of foreign exchange, increased 5.1 percent due to growth of Ensure and Glucerna product sales.
In 2024, U.S. and International Adult Nutritionals sales increased 3.2 percent and 10.5 percent, respectively, due to higher Ensure and Glucerna product sales.
Ownership timeline of Ensure
Where Ensure sits in Abbott
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Abbott
Abbott controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in meal replacement & weight management, and who owns them
Abbott has more brands in meal replacement & weight management on Brandtree than any other owner: 2 of 15.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Huel | Danone | 🇫🇷 France |
| OPTAVIA | Medifast | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Nutrimax | CP Foods | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| Nucare | Daesang | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Nurishment | GraceKennedy | 🇯🇲 Jamaica |
| Herbalife Formula 1 | Herbalife | 🇰🇾 Cayman Islands |
| TruHealth | Mannatech | 🇺🇸 United States |
| in Jelly | Morinaga | 🇯🇵 Japan |
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About the owner: Abbott
Abbott is a publicly listed company headquartered in Abbott Park, Illinois, United States, founded in 1900. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: ABT.
Abbott is an Illinois corporation incorporated in 1900 and one of the largest diversified healthcare companies in the world. It reports in four segments — Established Pharmaceutical Products, Diagnostic Products, Nutritional Products and Medical Devices — and only the third of those puts Abbott's names on supermarket shelves. Its 10-K lists Similac and EleCare in infant formula, Ensure, Glucerna, PediaSure and Pedialyte in adult and other paediatric nutrition, and a separate range of enteral feeds such as Jevity, Osmolite and Nepro sold into hospitals. The larger part of the company is diagnostics and devices, including the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitors, the BinaxNOW rapid tests and the i-STAT point-of-care systems, none of which is a consumer brand in the sense this site uses. Abbott agreed to acquire Exact Sciences in November 2025.
🇺🇸 Ensure and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Ensure is not one of them.
Official recalls involving Ensure products
1 recall notice from government regulators matched to Ensure. Each applies to the specific products, sizes and lot codes named in the notice, not to every product sold under the name.
- Ensure NutriVigor Plant-Based Almond flavour Nutritional Shake — UK FSA, · Allergy alert
Reason given: Milk
Recalling firm: Abbott
Matched automatically from FDA, USDA FSIS, UK Food Standards Agency and CPSC records only when the recalling firm corresponds to this ownership record and, for a brand, the brand name appears in the product description. Check the linked notice for exact products and lots. Method.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Ensure?
The parent company of Ensure is Abbott, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Ensure American?
Yes. Ensure originated in the United States and its owner, Abbott, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Ensure still owned by Abbott?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Ensure is still owned by Abbott. 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] Abbott Laboratories Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-20 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 20 February 2026; retrieved 26 September 2026.
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