Who owns Issima?
Issima is owned by Dinant (Honduras).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Dinant — Historia, Corporación Dinant. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Corporación Dinant reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇭🇳 Honduras, Tegucigalpa
- Origin
- 🇭🇳 Honduras
- Category
- Food › Condiments, sauces & seasonings › Sauces & ketchup
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Issima
Issima is Dinant's condiments brand, covering ketchup, broth and tomato paste according to the company's own product listing under its Food Division. It sits alongside Dinant's Mazola-branded mayonnaise in the same division, giving the company a packaged-condiments range built on the tomato and corn businesses it grew out from its original soap and detergent manufacturing.
Ownership timeline of Issima
Where Issima sits in Dinant
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Dinant
Dinant controls 9 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in food.
Also in food
- Áltima
- Del Rancho
- Yummies (1973)
Other brands in sauces & ketchup, and who owns them
The 95 brands in sauces & ketchup on Brandtree belong to 53 owners. The largest is Develey, with 6.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bautz'ner | Develey | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Chungjungone | Daesang | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Haitian | Haitian | 🇨🇳 China |
| Chaochai | Sempio | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Búfalo | Grupo Herdez | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
| A.1. | Kraft Heinz | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Las Palmas | B&G Foods | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Erisco | Erisco Foods | 🇳🇬 Nigeria |
About the owner: Dinant
Dinant is a privately held company headquartered in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, founded in 1960. Brandtree records 9 brands under its control.
Corporación Dinant is a Honduran consumer-goods manufacturer that began on 13 July 1960 as Químicas Dinant de Centroamérica, founded by Miguel Facussé Barjum with $3,500 of share capital to make soap, detergent and cleaning products under contract to Procter & Gamble, American Home Products, Stepan Chemical Company and Chemsearch. It moved into personal care in the 1960s and 1970s, food in 1972, and snacks in 1973 with its first plantain chips, and later built an oil-palm growing and extraction business that now feeds its cooking-oil brand. It is family-owned and today sells across Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic.
🇭🇳 Issima and other Honduran brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 10 brands that began in Honduras. All of them are controlled from Honduras.
- CM Airlines — CM Airlines 🇭🇳
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Issima?
The parent company of Issima is Dinant, a privately held company headquartered in Honduras.
Is Issima Honduran?
Yes. Issima originated in Honduras and its owner, Dinant, is also headquartered in Honduras.
Is Issima still owned by Dinant?
Yes. As of 21 September 2026, Issima is still owned by Dinant. 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] Dinant — Historia — Corporación Dinant, Official document; retrieved 21 September 2026.
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