Who owns La Favorita?
La Favorita is owned by La Fabril (Ecuador), which has owned the brand since 2002.[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: La Fabril — Quiénes somos, La Fabril S.A. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- La Fabril S.A. reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇪🇨 Ecuador
- Origin
- 🇪🇨 Ecuador
- Category
- Food › Condiments, sauces & seasonings › Cooking oils
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About La Favorita
La Favorita is the vegetable cooking oil that made La Fabril the largest edible oils business in Ecuador. The factory and the brands behind it belonged to Unilever until 2002, when La Fabril bought the whole operation, and the oil still carries the Ecuadorian standards body's INEN quality seal against the national cooking oil standard. A lighter Favorita Vida line is sold alongside it.
Ownership timeline of La Favorita
Where La Favorita sits in La Fabril
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by La Fabril
La Fabril controls 13 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in cooking oils, and who owns them
The 67 brands in cooking oils on Brandtree belong to 30 owners. The largest is Avril, with 8; La Fabril has 4.
About the owner: La Fabril
La Fabril is a privately held company headquartered in Ecuador, founded in 1935. Brandtree records 13 brands under its control.
La Fabril is an Ecuadorian manufacturer constituted in 1935 that began operating in 1968 under Carlos González-Artigas Díaz, and it now leads the country in fats, oils, oleochemicals, biofuels and cleaning and hygiene products. In 2002 it bought the La Favorita oils and fats factory from Unilever, brands included, which made it the largest edible oils and fats business in Ecuador. It calls itself "the industry of ideas" and has run its own oils and fats research centre since the 1990s; it says it was the first company in Latin America to fractionate palm kernel oil to make cocoa butter substitutes.
🇪🇨 La Favorita and other Ecuadorian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 38 brands that began in Ecuador. 2 of them (5%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; La Favorita is not one of them.
- Fritz — Pronaca 🇪🇨
- Juris — Sigma Foods 🇲🇽
- Akí — Corporación Favorita 🇪🇨
- EP Petroecuador — Petroecuador 🇪🇨
- LATAM Airlines Ecuador — LATAM 🇨🇱
- Gustadina — Pronaca 🇪🇨
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of La Favorita?
The parent company of La Favorita is La Fabril, a privately held company headquartered in Ecuador.
Is La Favorita owned by Unilever?
No. La Favorita is owned by La Fabril, not Unilever.
Is La Favorita Ecuadorian?
Yes. La Favorita originated in Ecuador and its owner, La Fabril, is also headquartered in Ecuador.
Since when has La Fabril owned La Favorita?
La Fabril has owned La Favorita since 2002.
Is La Favorita still owned by La Fabril?
Yes. As of 24 September 2026, La Favorita is still owned by La Fabril. 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] La Fabril — Quiénes somos — La Fabril S.A., Official document; retrieved 24 September 2026.
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