Who owns Golden Toast?

Golden Toast is owned by AGROFERT (the Czech Republic), which has owned the brand since 1 June 2013.^[1]

AGROFERT owns 94% of Golden Toast rather than all of it.

This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.

Evidence: AGROFERT Group Annual Report Consolidated 2025, AGROFERT, a.s. Last checked 23 October 2026.

Key facts

Current owner: AGROFERT, a.s. (94% stake) reported
Owned since: 1 June 2013
Owner HQ: 🇨🇿 Czech Republic, Prague
Origin: 🇩🇪 Germany
Founded: 1963
Category: Food › Bakery › Bread & buns
Last verified: 23 October 2026 · 2 sources

About Golden Toast

Golden Toast is a German packaged bread brand belonging to Lieken, one of the largest bakery producers in Germany, which has been part of AGROFERT since 1 June 2013. The name is carried by a group company of its own, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Golden Toast GmbH. AGROFERT holds the Lieken chain at 94 per cent rather than outright, so the brand is recorded with that stake; the rest of Lieken's output is fresh bread, pastries and retailer private label baked to order.

Ownership timeline of Golden Toast

2013 – present AGROFERT (94%) ^[1] reported

Where Golden Toast sits in AGROFERT

Controlling ownership as of 2026-11-08. Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.

- FATRAFLOOR
- Florian
- Golden Toast (94%)
- Grande
- HYZA (99.86%)
- KMOTR
- Kostelec
- Krahulík
- Lieken Urkorn (94%)
- OLMA
- PENAM
- Tatra
- Vitacelia
- Vodňanské kuře
- Vysočina Hodice

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Other brands owned by AGROFERT

AGROFERT controls 15 brands on Brandtree, 14 of them in food.

Also in food

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Other brands in bread & buns, and who owns them

The 43 brands in bread & buns on Brandtree belong to 28 owners. The largest is Grupo Bimbo, with 4; AGROFERT has 4.

Brand	Owner	Owner based in
Elite	ELBISCO	🇬🇷 Greece
Arnold	Grupo Bimbo	🇲🇽 Mexico
Dave's Killer Bread	Flowers Foods	🇺🇸 United States
Delicados	GRUMA	🇲🇽 Mexico
Korvbrödsbagarn	Lantmännen	🇸🇪 Sweden
New York Bakery	Marzetti	🇺🇸 United States
L'usine	Almarai	🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
Harrys	Barilla	🇮🇹 Italy

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About the owner: AGROFERT

AGROFERT is a privately held company headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic. Brandtree records 15 brands under its control.

AGROFERT is a Czech concern that its 2025 consolidated annual report describes as the parent company plus 209 subsidiaries, 19 jointly controlled companies and 6 associates, working in chemicals, agriculture, food processing, forestry, land technology, logistics and renewable energy. It reported consolidated revenues of CZK 212.2 billion in 2025 and more than 28,000 employees, which makes it the largest private employer in the Czech Republic, and it is the second largest producer of nitrogen fertilizers in Europe. Its food companies are the reason it appears here: bakeries, dairies, meat plants and poultry businesses whose brands are on Czech, Slovak, Hungarian and German shelves. Since 20 February 2026 the rights of the sole shareholder over all of its shares have been exercised by Wilfried Reinhard Elbs, the trustee of the RSVP TRUST private trust fund.

AGROFERT: full profile, brands and acquisition history →

🇩🇪 Golden Toast and other German brands

Brandtree records a controlling owner for 265 brands that began in Germany. 96 of them (36%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Golden Toast among them.

3 Glocken — Princes Group 🇬🇧
Abraham — Bell Food Group 🇨🇭
Aldi (Nord) — Aldi Nord 🇩🇪
Aldi (Süd) — Aldi Süd 🇩🇪
Almette — Hochland 🇩🇪
Aptamil — Danone 🇫🇷

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Frequently asked questions

Who is the parent company of Golden Toast?

The parent company of Golden Toast is AGROFERT, a privately held company headquartered in the Czech Republic.

Is Golden Toast German or Czech?

Golden Toast originated in Germany in 1963, but it is owned today by AGROFERT, which is headquartered in the Czech Republic. So Golden Toast is a German-origin brand under Czech ownership.

Since when has AGROFERT owned Golden Toast?

AGROFERT has owned Golden Toast since 1 June 2013.

Is Golden Toast still owned by AGROFERT?

Yes. As of 23 October 2026, Golden Toast is still owned by AGROFERT (94% stake). The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.

Sources (2) & corrections

Last verified 23 October 2026. Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.

[1] AGROFERT Group Annual Report Consolidated 2025 — AGROFERT, a.s., Annual report; retrieved 21 September 2026.
[2] Das „Toastiläum" ist in vollem Gange – GOLDEN TOAST feiert seinen 50. Geburtstag — Lieken GmbH, Official press release, published 19 April 2013; retrieved 23 October 2026.

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