Grown in Idaho is owned by Lamb Weston (the United States, NYSE: LW), which was separated from Conagra Brands on 9 November 2016.[1][2]
Evidence: Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-07-24, SEC EDGAR, 24 July 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Grown in Idaho is Lamb Weston's retail brand, selling frozen chips and potato products in supermarkets under a name that emphasises the growing region rather than the company. It gave the business a consumer presence after the Conagra spin-off.
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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Lamb Weston controls 2 brands on Brandtree, 2 of them in food.
The 13 brands in frozen vegetables & fruit on Brandtree belong to 9 owners. The largest is McCain Foods, with 3; Lamb Weston has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Lutosa | McCain Foods | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Birds Eye (UK & Ireland) | Nomad Foods | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Gradena | AQUILA | 🇷🇴 Romania |
| Birds Eye (North America) | Conagra Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Elbtal | FRoSTA | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Hanover | Hanover Foods | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Ore-Ida | Kraft Heinz | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Green Giant (U.S. frozen vegetables) | Seneca Foods | 🇺🇸 United States |
Lamb Weston is a publicly listed company headquartered in Eagle, Idaho, United States, founded in 1950. Brandtree records 2 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: LW.
Lamb Weston was founded in Oregon in 1950 and invented the water gun knife, which cuts potatoes into chips by firing them through a grid of blades at high speed, still the industry standard. Conagra spun it off in 2016, and it is one of the largest frozen potato producers in the world.
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; Grown in Idaho is not one of them.
Conagra separated its frozen potato business as Lamb Weston, distributing shares to Conagra shareholders. The two businesses had little in common: one supplied restaurants with commodity potato products, the other sold branded food in supermarkets, and each was valued differently by investors.
The parent company of Grown in Idaho is Lamb Weston, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Yes. Grown in Idaho originated in the United States in 2016 and its owner, Lamb Weston, is also headquartered in the United States.
Lamb Weston has owned Grown in Idaho since 9 November 2016.
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Grown in Idaho is still owned by Lamb Weston. 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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