Who owns Fontana?
Fontana is owned by Sempio (South Korea, KRX: 248170).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Sempio Foods Company Business Report (사업보고서) for fiscal year 2025, filed with DART, 13 March 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Sempio Foods Company reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇰🇷 South Korea, Seoul
- Origin
- 🇰🇷 South Korea
- Founded
- 2003
- Category
- Food › Condiments, sauces & seasonings › Sauces & ketchup
- Parent ticker
- KRX: 248170
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Fontana
Fontana is Sempio's premium Western-food brand, launched in 2003 to bring European flavours to Korean kitchens. Its range covers pasta sauces, dried pasta, stews and risottos, soups, spreads, dressings, meat sauces, oils and balsamic vinegar, and croutons. Sempio's business report lists it among the goods it buys in and sells, rather than among the products it makes itself.
Ownership timeline of Fontana
Where Fontana sits in Sempio
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Sempio
Sempio controls 7 brands on Brandtree, 7 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; Sempio has 5.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bautz'ner | Develey | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Chungjungone | Daesang | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Haitian | Haitian | 🇨🇳 China |
| Búfalo | Grupo Herdez | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
| A.1. | Kraft Heinz | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Las Palmas | B&G Foods | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Erisco | Erisco Foods | 🇳🇬 Nigeria |
| Hon Tsuyu | Kikkoman | 🇯🇵 Japan |
About the owner: Sempio
Sempio is a publicly listed company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 2016. Brandtree records 7 brands under its control, and it is listed as KRX: 248170.
Sempio Foods is a South Korean food company best known for soy sauce and other fermented sauces (jang). It also makes the Yondu cooking essence, Baengnyeon Dongan black vinegar, Fontana Western foods, T'Asia Asian foods and Ziller jerky. The Sempio business began on 20 August 1946. The present company was split from Sempio Corporation on 1 July 2016 to take over its food business and was relisted on the Korea Exchange on 9 August 2016; Sempio Corporation holds 49.38%. In 2025 jang made up 233.3 billion won, or 51.3%, of sales, and other products 221.7 billion won.
🇰🇷 Fontana and other South Korean brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 237 brands that began in South Korea. 12 of them (5%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Fontana is not one of them.
- Absolute — Maeil Dairies 🇰🇷
- Ace — Haitai 🇰🇷
- Banana-Flavored Milk — Binggrae 🇰🇷
- Buldak — Samyang Foods 🇰🇷
- Bulgaris — Namyang Dairy 🇰🇷
- Chapagetti — Nongshim 🇰🇷
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Fontana?
The parent company of Fontana is Sempio, a publicly listed company headquartered in South Korea.
Is Fontana South Korean?
Yes. Fontana originated in South Korea in 2003 and its owner, Sempio, is also headquartered in South Korea.
Is Fontana still owned by Sempio?
Yes. As of 26 October 2026, Fontana is still owned by Sempio. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (2) & 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] Sempio Foods Company Business Report (사업보고서) for fiscal year 2025, filed with DART — Sempio Foods Company, Stock exchange filing, published 13 March 2026; retrieved 26 October 2026.
- [2] Sempio — 샘표 80년 (history) — Sempio Foods Company, Official document; retrieved 26 October 2026.
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