Who owns Gradena?
Gradena is owned by AQUILA (Romania, BVB: AQ), which has owned the brand since 2019.[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Aquila Part Prod Com S.A. Annual Report 2025. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Aquila Part Prod Com S.A. reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇷🇴 Romania, Ploiești
- Origin
- 🇷🇴 Romania
- Category
- Food › Frozen food › Frozen vegetables & fruit
- Parent ticker
- BVB: AQ
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Gradena
Gradena is the best known of Aquila's own brands and sells frozen and canned vegetables and fruit. It arrived with Agrirom, the food importer Aquila acquired and then merged into itself in 2019 to build a HoReCa division, and it was carried onto the balance sheet as a valued intangible along with the rest of the Agrirom names. In 2025 it added whole and sliced canned mushrooms, single-fruit frozen packs for retail and three products built for professional kitchens, and its sales rose 16 per cent.
Ownership timeline of Gradena
Where Gradena sits in AQUILA
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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See the full AQUILA brand portfolio (3) →
Other brands owned by AQUILA
AQUILA controls 3 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in frozen vegetables & fruit, and who owns them
The 15 brands in frozen vegetables & fruit on Brandtree belong to 11 owners. The largest is McCain Foods, with 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Lutosa | McCain Foods | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Grown in Idaho | Lamb Weston | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Birds Eye (UK & Ireland) | Nomad Foods | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Birds Eye (North America) | Conagra Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Elbtal | FRoSTA | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Hanover | Hanover Foods | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Ore-Ida | Kraft Heinz | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Aviko | Royal Cosun | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
About the owner: AQUILA
AQUILA is a publicly listed company headquartered in Ploiești, Romania, founded in 1994. Brandtree records 3 brands under its control, and it is listed as BVB: AQ.
Aquila is a Romanian distribution and logistics group founded in Ploiești in 1994 by Alin Adrian Dociu and Constantin Cătălin Vasile, and listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange in November 2021. It carries more than 22,000 products to over 78,000 points of sale across Romania, Moldova and Hungary on a fleet of more than 1,600 vehicles, and most of what it moves belongs to somebody else: Kinder, Lavazza, Whiskas and Mutti are the examples it gives. Its own brands, which it began assembling when it bought and merged the food importer Agrirom in 2019, produced about 4 per cent of the RON 3.5 billion it turned over in 2025.
🇷🇴 Gradena and other Romanian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 37 brands that began in Romania. 8 of them (22%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Gradena is not one of them.
- Bunica — Avril 🇫🇷
- Mărgăritar Zahăr — AGRANA 🇦🇹
- Alexandrion — Alexandrion Group 🇷🇴
- Arctic — Arçelik 🇹🇷
- Aslavital — Farmec 🇷🇴
- Crama Ceptura — Maspex 🇵🇱
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Gradena?
The parent company of Gradena is AQUILA, a publicly listed company headquartered in Romania.
Is Gradena Romanian?
Yes. Gradena originated in Romania and its owner, AQUILA, is also headquartered in Romania.
Since when has AQUILA owned Gradena?
AQUILA has owned Gradena since 2019.
Is Gradena still owned by AQUILA?
Yes. As of 22 September 2026, Gradena is still owned by AQUILA. 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] Aquila Part Prod Com S.A. Annual Report 2025 — Aquila Part Prod Com S.A., Annual report; retrieved 22 September 2026.
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