Who owns Kaytee?
Kaytee is owned by Central Garden & Pet (the United States, NASDAQ: CENT).[1]
Evidence: Central Garden & Pet Company Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-26, SEC EDGAR, 26 November 2025. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Central Garden & Pet Company verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Walnut Creek, California
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States, Chilton, Wisconsin
- Founded
- 1866
- Category
- Pet & animal care › Pet food › Pet treats & supplements
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: CENT
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Kaytee
Kaytee makes food and bedding for small pets and wild birds, founded in Wisconsin in 1866 as a grain business. It is one of the largest brands in a category that the major pet food companies have largely left alone.
What Central Garden & Pet's annual report says about Kaytee
Sentences about Kaytee from Central Garden & Pet's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Under Kaytee, we provide fortified diets, habitats, bedding, hay treats and toys, along with suet products for backyard birding under C&S.
In particular, our Pennington and Kaytee businesses are exposed to fluctuations in market prices for commodity seeds and grains used to produce bird feed and grass seed.
How often Central Garden & Pet names Kaytee 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.
Ownership timeline of Kaytee
- Current owner Central Garden & Pet [1] verified
Where Kaytee sits in Central Garden & Pet
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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See the full Central Garden & Pet brand portfolio (5) →
Other brands owned by Central Garden & Pet
Central Garden & Pet controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in pet & animal care.
Also in pet & animal care
Other brands in pet treats & supplements, and who owns them
The 10 brands in pet treats & supplements on Brandtree belong to 9 owners. The largest is CP Foods, with 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Jerhigh | CP Foods | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| BARK | BARK | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Dog Joy | Freshpet | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Zesty Paws | H&H Group | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong |
| Milk-Bone | J.M. Smucker | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Delickcious | Kormotech | 🇺🇦 Ukraine |
| Greenies | Mars | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Old Mother Hubbard | WellPet | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Central Garden & Pet
Central Garden & Pet is a publicly listed company headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, United States, founded in 1980. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: CENT.
Central Garden & Pet was founded in 1980 as a garden products distributor and moved into owning brands, acquiring dozens of niche names in pet supplies and lawn and garden. It is one of the largest suppliers to American pet specialty and garden retail.
Central Garden & Pet: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Kaytee 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; Kaytee is not one of them.
- 4health — Tractor Supply 🇺🇸
- Advantage — Elanco 🇺🇸
- American Journey — Chewy 🇺🇸
- Apoquel — Zoetis 🇺🇸
- Aureomycin — Phibro 🇺🇸
- BARK — BARK 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Kaytee?
The parent company of Kaytee is Central Garden & Pet, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Kaytee American?
Yes. Kaytee originated in the United States in 1866 and its owner, Central Garden & Pet, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Kaytee still owned by Central Garden & Pet?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Kaytee is still owned by Central Garden & Pet. 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] Central Garden & Pet Company Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-26 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 26 November 2025; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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