Who owns Herz?
Herz is owned by Bonafarm (Hungary), which has owned the brand since 2010.[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Bonafarm Group — Group Member Companies, Bonafarm Zrt. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Bonafarm Zrt. reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇭🇺 Hungary, Budapest
- Origin
- 🇭🇺 Hungary
- Category
- Food › Meat, poultry & seafood › Processed & packaged meat
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Herz
Herz is one of the best known Hungarian meat brands, and it came to Bonafarm in 2010 when the Hungarian competition authority cleared the group's purchase of the assets of the Herz salami factory. It is now made and sold by Pick Szeged, which runs it as a separate brand with its own range of hams, winter salami and thick sausages, and has reformulated the hams around reduced sodium using sea salt.
Ownership timeline of Herz
Where Herz sits in Bonafarm
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Bonafarm
Bonafarm controls 7 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in processed & packaged meat, and who owns them
The 103 brands in processed & packaged meat on Brandtree belong to 45 owners. The largest is Atria, with 8; Bonafarm has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| 3-Stjernet | Atria | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| Dalsjöfors | Danish Crown | 🇩🇰 Denmark |
| Fantino & Mondello | Maple Leaf Foods | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Bar-S | Sigma Foods | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
| Aidells | Tyson Foods | 🇺🇸 United States |
| KMOTR | AGROFERT | 🇨🇿 Czech Republic |
| Freybe | Premium Brands | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Abraham | Bell Food Group | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
About the owner: Bonafarm
Bonafarm is a privately held company headquartered in Budapest, Hungary, founded in 2009. Brandtree records 7 brands under its control.
Bonafarm is a Hungarian food group built as a vertically integrated chain, from crop and feed production through its own livestock farms to meat, dairy and wine plants. It was established in 2009, employs more than 8,400 people across five agricultural and three food processing companies plus two strategic partners, and farms 34,000 hectares. Its food companies are Pick Szeged, which makes about 40,000 tonnes of meat products a year, Sole-Mizo, which processes around 400 million litres of milk at four Hungarian plants, and the Villány winery Csányi Pincészet. The group describes its brands as coordinated rather than independent, and several of them are older than the group by more than a century.
🇭🇺 Herz and other Hungarian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 28 brands that began in Hungary. 6 of them (21%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Herz is not one of them.
- Globus — Bonduelle 🇫🇷
- Goldenfood — LDC 🇫🇷
- Koronás Cukor — AGRANA 🇦🇹
- Allegro.hu — Allegro 🇵🇱
- Fütyülős — Zwack Unicum 🇭🇺
- MOL — MOL Group 🇭🇺
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Herz?
The parent company of Herz is Bonafarm, a privately held company headquartered in Hungary.
Is Herz Hungarian?
Yes. Herz originated in Hungary and its owner, Bonafarm, is also headquartered in Hungary.
Since when has Bonafarm owned Herz?
Bonafarm has owned Herz since 2010.
Is Herz still owned by Bonafarm?
Yes. As of 21 September 2026, Herz is still owned by Bonafarm. 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] Bonafarm Group — Group Member Companies — Bonafarm Zrt., Official document; retrieved 21 September 2026.
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