Who owns Jennie-O?
Jennie-O is owned by Hormel Foods (the United States, NYSE: HRL).[1]
Evidence: Hormel Foods Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-12-05, SEC EDGAR, 5 December 2025. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Hormel Foods Corporation verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Austin, Minnesota
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States, Willmar, Minnesota
- Founded
- 1940
- Category
- Food › Meat, poultry & seafood › Fresh meat & poultry
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: HRL
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Jennie-O
Jennie-O is one of the largest turkey producers in the United States, founded in Minnesota in 1940 and named after the founder's daughter. Hormel acquired it in 1986 and it supplies both whole birds and ground turkey sold as a leaner alternative to beef.
What Hormel Foods's annual report says about Jennie-O
Sentences about Jennie-O from Hormel Foods's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Net sales growth across the enterprise was driven primarily by the Jennie-O turkey portfolio, Foodservice customized solutions business, Planters snack nuts, Applegate natural and organic meats, and premium prepared proteins, and the SPAM family of products.
Net sales growth for the full year was driven primarily by the Jennie-O turkey portfolio, the SPAM family of products, Foodservice customized solutions business, Planters snack nuts, Applegate natural and organic meats, the bacon portfolio, and the Mexican foods portfolio.
Full year fiscal 2025 organic volume and organic net sales increased due to growth across many categories, with significant contributions from the customized solutions business, Jennie-O turkey portfolio, premium prepared proteins, and branded bacon offerings.
How often Hormel Foods names Jennie-O 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 more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Jennie-O
- Current owner Hormel Foods [1] verified
Where Jennie-O sits in Hormel Foods
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Hormel Foods
Hormel Foods controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 8 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in fresh meat & poultry, and who owns them
The 56 brands in fresh meat & poultry on Brandtree belong to 27 owners. The largest is LDC, with 6.
About the owner: Hormel Foods
Hormel Foods is a publicly listed company headquartered in Austin, Minnesota, United States, founded in 1891. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: HRL.
Hormel Foods was founded in Austin, Minnesota in 1891 as a pork processor and is best known for Spam, which it invented in 1937. The Hormel Foundation holds a controlling block of shares, an arrangement set up to keep the company independent and headquartered in its home town.
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🇺🇸 Jennie-O and other American brands
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; Jennie-O is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Jennie-O?
The parent company of Jennie-O is Hormel Foods, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Jennie-O American?
Yes. Jennie-O originated in the United States in 1940 and its owner, Hormel Foods, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Jennie-O still owned by Hormel Foods?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Jennie-O is still owned by Hormel Foods. 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] Hormel Foods Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-12-05 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 5 December 2025; retrieved 23 October 2026.
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