Who owns Home Chef?
Home Chef is owned by Kroger (the United States, NYSE: KR), which has owned the brand since 5 June 2018.[1]
Evidence: The Kroger Co. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-03-31, SEC EDGAR, 31 March 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- The Kroger Co. verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States, Chicago, Illinois
- Founded
- 2013
- Category
- Food › Meals & meal components › Canned & shelf-stable meals
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: KR
- Trademark registrant
- RELISH LABS LLC (USPTO)
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Home Chef
Home Chef delivers recipe kits with pre-portioned ingredients. Kroger acquired it in 2018 for up to $700 million and, unusually for the category, also sells the kits in its shops rather than only by subscription. Selling the kits in shops as well as by post gave Kroger a route into meal kits that the subscription-only companies could not match, since most customers still buy food in person.
How often Kroger names Home Chef in its annual report
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. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Trademark record for Home Chef
The USPTO record for the Home Chef mark lists RELISH LABS LLC as the owner of record (serial number 87302128). A trademark is often held by a group company rather than the listed parent, so the registrant's name can differ from the owner named above.[2]
Ownership timeline of Home Chef
Where Home Chef sits in Kroger
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Kroger
Kroger controls 22 brands on Brandtree.
Founded in the 2010s
- Mariano's (2010)
- Simple Truth (2012)
Other brands in canned & shelf-stable meals, and who owns them
The 80 brands in canned & shelf-stable meals on Brandtree belong to 46 owners. The largest is Thai Union, with 13.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken of the Sea | Thai Union | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| Albert Heijn | Ahold Delhaize | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
| Anny | Mutandis | 🇲🇦 Morocco |
| Bonduelle | Bonduelle | 🇫🇷 France |
| Heinz Baked Beans | Kraft Heinz | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Aunt Nellie's | Seneca Foods | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Aldi (Nord) | Aldi Nord | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Aldi (Süd) | Aldi Süd | 🇩🇪 Germany |
About the owner: Kroger
Kroger is a publicly listed company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, founded in 1883. Brandtree records 22 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: KR.
Kroger is the largest supermarket operator in the United States, founded in Cincinnati in 1883. Its proposed merger with Albertsons was blocked by American courts in 2024, which left it dependent on its own brands rather than on scale from acquisition.
🇺🇸 Home Chef and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,570 brands that began in the United States. 492 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Home Chef is not one of them.
Official recalls involving Home Chef products
2 recall notices from government regulators matched to Home Chef. Each applies to the specific products, sizes and lot codes named in the notice, not to every product sold under the name.
- Home Chef Chicken Street Taco, Net Wt. 9.93 oz, packaged in a plastic tray with clear plastic lid, perishable item kept under refrigeration, UPC 84013430435,… — FDA, · Class II
Reason given: Meal kits contain cooked chicken which was recalled due to contamination with Listeria monocytogenes
Recalling firm: The Kroger Co
- Home Chef Asian Style Chicken Stir Fry, Net Wt. 13 oz, packaged in a plastic tray with clear plastic lid, perishable item kept under refrigeration, UPC… — FDA, · Class II
Reason given: Meal kits contain cooked chicken which was recalled due to contamination with Listeria monocytogenes
Recalling firm: The Kroger Co
Matched automatically from FDA, USDA FSIS, UK Food Standards Agency and CPSC records only when the recalling firm corresponds to this ownership record and, for a brand, the brand name appears in the product description. Check the linked notice for exact products and lots. Method.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Home Chef?
The parent company of Home Chef is Kroger, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Home Chef American?
Yes. Home Chef originated in the United States in 2013 and its owner, Kroger, is also headquartered in the United States.
Since when has Kroger owned Home Chef?
Kroger has owned Home Chef since 5 June 2018.
Is Home Chef still owned by Kroger?
Yes. As of 29 October 2026, Home Chef is still owned by Kroger. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (2) & 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] The Kroger Co. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-03-31 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 31 March 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
- [2] USPTO: HOME CHEF, serial 87302128 — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark registry; retrieved 9 October 2026.
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