Who owns Hansel?
Hansel is owned by Rebisco (the Philippines).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Rebisco — Our Brands, Republic Biscuit Corporation. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Republic Biscuit Corporation reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇵🇭 Philippines, Pasig City
- Origin
- 🇵🇭 Philippines
- Category
- Food › Snacks › Cookies & crackers
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Hansel
Hansel is one of Rebisco's best-known biscuit brands, sold both as a plain round biscuit and as a sandwich with a mocha-flavoured filling. It is among the eighteen brands the company lists on its own brands page, and one of the handful it puts forward as products cherished by generations of Filipinos over more than six decades.
Ownership timeline of Hansel
Where Hansel sits in Rebisco
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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See the full Rebisco brand portfolio (16) →
Other brands owned by Rebisco
Rebisco controls 16 brands on Brandtree, 16 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in cookies & crackers, and who owns them
The 137 brands in cookies & crackers on Brandtree belong to 55 owners. The largest is Valeo Foods, with 13; Rebisco has 9.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Andante | Valeo Foods | 🇮🇪 Ireland |
| belVita | Mondelēz | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Eti Burçak | Eti | 🇹🇷 Turkey |
| emNAU | Paradise Foods | 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea |
| Fortaleza | M. Dias Branco | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Biskrem | Ülker Bisküvi | 🇹🇷 Turkey |
| Bourbon | Britannia | 🇮🇳 India |
| Carr's | pladis | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
About the owner: Rebisco
Rebisco is a privately held company headquartered in Pasig City, Philippines, founded in 1963. Brandtree records 16 brands under its control.
Republic Biscuit Corporation, known to everyone as Rebisco, began in 1963 as the England Biscuit Factory, a neighbourhood bakeshop in old San Juan in Metro Manila, and took its present name in 1972. Its first two products were Crema, which it describes as the first cream sandwich biscuit made in the Philippines, and a plain cracker called Sodatine. It outgrew San Juan and moved to a larger plant in Novaliches, Quezon City, and now runs its head office from the Joy Nostalg Center in Ortigas, Pasig City, with a second office at the Novaliches site. Over six decades it has spread well beyond biscuits into cakes, wafers, doughnuts, bread, nuts, chips and confectionery, through subsidiaries it lists as APC, APC Food Solutions, Creamline, MFC, Omnipack, PAD, SPI and Suncrest, and it exports through an international business group whose recent work includes a manufacturing joint venture in Myanmar.
🇵🇭 Hansel and other Filipino brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 68 brands that began in the Philippines. 1 of them (1%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Hansel is not one of them.
- 555 — Century Pacific 🇵🇭
- Dari Crème — San Miguel Food and Beverage 🇵🇭
- Fita — Monde Nissin 🇵🇭
- Jack 'n Jill — URC 🇵🇭
- Red Ribbon — Jollibee Group 🇵🇭
- 2GO Express — 2GO 🇵🇭
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Hansel?
The parent company of Hansel is Rebisco, a privately held company headquartered in the Philippines.
Is Hansel Filipino?
Yes. Hansel originated in the Philippines and its owner, Rebisco, is also headquartered in the Philippines.
Is Hansel still owned by Rebisco?
Yes. As of 25 September 2026, Hansel is still owned by Rebisco. 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] Rebisco — Our Brands — Republic Biscuit Corporation, Official document; retrieved 25 September 2026.
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