Folgers is owned by J.M. Smucker (the United States, NYSE: SJM), which acquired the brand on 6 November 2008 for $3.3 billion.[1][2] Before J.M. Smucker, Folgers was owned by Procter & Gamble from 1963 to 2008.[3]
Evidence: The J. M. Smucker Company Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-06-09, SEC EDGAR, 9 June 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Folgers was founded in San Francisco in 1850 to supply coffee to gold rush prospectors, and is one of the largest ground coffee brands in the United States. Smucker acquired it from Procter & Gamble in 2008 in a transaction structured to be tax-free for P&G shareholders.
Sentences about Folgers from J.M. Smucker's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Our Primary Products Our Primary Brands Competing Brands Competitors U.S. Retail Coffee Mainstream roast and ground coffee Folgers (A) and Caf Bustelo Private label brands Various Maxwell House and Yuban The Kraft Heinz Company McCaf Keurig Dr. Pepper Cafe La Llave F.
We have elected to source certain raw materials, such as packaging for our Folgers coffee and Jif peanut butter brands, certain finished goods, such as K-Cup pods, our Pup-Peroni dog snacks, and liquid coffee, from primary or single sources of supply.
("Graham Packaging") is the single-source supplier for packaging used in our Folgers coffee products and primary supplier for packaging used in our Jif peanut butter products.
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 less often than it was three years earlier.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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J.M. Smucker controls 9 brands on Brandtree, 2 of them in beverages.
The 66 brands in coffee on Brandtree belong to 33 owners. The largest is Keurig Dr Pepper, with 10; J.M. Smucker has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Douwe Egberts | Keurig Dr Pepper | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Café Caribe | Coffee Holding | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Café Barão | Melitta | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Nescafé | Nestlé | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Ah Huat | Power Root | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| Barcaffè | Atlantic Grupa | 🇭🇷 Croatia |
| Carte Noire | Lavazza | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Boyds | Royal Cup | 🇺🇸 United States |
J.M. Smucker is a publicly listed company headquartered in Orrville, Ohio, United States, founded in 1897. Brandtree records 9 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: SJM.
J.M. Smucker was founded in 1897 in Orrville, Ohio, where Jerome Smucker pressed cider and made apple butter, selling it from a wagon with his signature on each lid as a guarantee. It is now built on three legs: coffee, pet food and consumer spreads, and the family still holds significant voting power.
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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; Folgers is not one of them.
Smucker acquired Folgers from Procter & Gamble for about $3.3 billion in a Reverse Morris Trust, a structure that let P&G divest the business to shareholders without a large tax charge. It made Smucker the largest packaged coffee company in the United States.
The parent company of Folgers is J.M. Smucker, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Yes. Folgers originated in the United States in 1850 and its owner, J.M. Smucker, is also headquartered in the United States.
J.M. Smucker completed its acquisition of Folgers on 6 November 2008, after announcing the deal on 4 June 2008. The deal was valued at $3.3 billion (enterprise value).
Before J.M. Smucker, Folgers was owned by Procter & Gamble from 1963 until 2008.
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Folgers is still owned by J.M. Smucker. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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