Frank's RedHot is owned by McCormick (the United States, NYSE: MKC), which acquired the brand on 17 August 2017 from Reckitt, as part of a $4.2 billion deal that also included French's.[1][2] Before McCormick, Frank's RedHot was owned by Reckitt from 1999 to 2017.[2]
Evidence: McCormick & Company, Incorporated Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-01-22, SEC EDGAR, 22 January 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Frank's RedHot is the cayenne pepper sauce used in the original Buffalo wing, created in Buffalo, New York in 1964, a claim the brand has made central to its marketing. McCormick acquired it with French's from Reckitt Benckiser in 2017.
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.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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McCormick controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 8 of them in food.
The 90 brands in sauces & ketchup on Brandtree belong to 52 owners. The largest is Develey, with 6; McCormick has 2.
| 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 |
McCormick is a publicly listed company headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, United States, founded in 1889. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: MKC.
McCormick was founded in a Baltimore cellar in 1889 by an 25-year-old selling flavouring extracts door to door, and is now the largest spice and seasoning company in the world. About half its revenue comes from supplying flavour to food manufacturers and restaurants rather than from its consumer brands.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,550 brands that began in the United States. 479 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Frank's RedHot is not one of them.
McCormick bought French's mustard and Frank's RedHot from Reckitt Benckiser, which had inherited the food business through Reckitt & Colman and was selling it to fund its purchase of Mead Johnson. It was McCormick's largest acquisition.
The parent company of Frank's RedHot is McCormick, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Yes. Frank's RedHot originated in the United States in 1920 and its owner, McCormick, is also headquartered in the United States.
McCormick completed its acquisition of Frank's RedHot on 17 August 2017, after announcing the deal on 19 July 2017. The deal, which also included French's, was valued at $4.2 billion (enterprise value).
Before McCormick, Frank's RedHot was owned by Reckitt from 1999 until 2017.
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Frank's RedHot is still owned by McCormick. 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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