Who owns La Monégasque?
La Monégasque is owned by Unimer (Morocco, CSE: UMR), which has owned the brand since 6 January 2011.[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Unimer SA — Rapport Financier Semestriel 2024, 20 September 2024. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Unimer SA reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇲🇦 Morocco, Casablanca
- Origin
- 🇲🇨 Monaco
- Founded
- 1942 by Charles Maurice Crovetto, Antoine Bacciolan
- Category
- Food › Meat, poultry & seafood › Fish & seafood
- Parent ticker
- CSE: UMR
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About La Monégasque
La Monégasque is one of Unimer Group's current proprietary seafood brands, pictured on the brand page of the company's September 2024 semi-annual report alongside Titus, Vanelli and Madrigal. It traces to an anchovy cannery founded in Monaco in 1942 by Charles Maurice Crovetto and Antoine Bacciolan; its Moroccan business, La Monégasque Vanelli Maroc, merged into Unimer SA through a share exchange dated 6 January 2011, per Unimer's December 2010 regulatory filing proposing that fusion.
Ownership timeline of La Monégasque
Where La Monégasque sits in Unimer
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Unimer
Unimer controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in fish & seafood, and who owns them
The 38 brands in fish & seafood on Brandtree belong to 16 owners. The largest is Bakkafrost, with 6; Unimer has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Islands | Bakkafrost | 🇫🇴 Faroe Islands |
| Fisher Boy | High Liner Foods | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Isabel | Bolton Group | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Ōra King | NZ King Salmon | 🇳🇿 New Zealand |
| Mushroom | QL Resources | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| Ducktrap River of Maine | Mowi | 🇳🇴 Norway |
| Coln Valley Smokery | PRFoods | 🇪🇪 Estonia |
| Nutaaq | Royal Greenland | 🇬🇱 Greenland |
About the owner: Unimer
Unimer is a publicly listed company headquartered in Casablanca, Morocco, founded in 1973. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as CSE: UMR.
Unimer Group is a Moroccan seafood-products group that, per its own September 2024 semi-annual report, grew from the fusion of several 19th-century Moroccan fish canneries into what it calls one of the world's largest specialists in sardine and anchovy canning. The same report puts the group, as of that date, at 20 production sites (2 abroad), 2 logistics platforms, 6 foreign commercial subsidiaries, sales in 57 countries and eight recognised proprietary brands, and shows it majority-owned through the Sanam Agro agro-industrial arm of the Alj family's Sanam group (Sanam Agro 50.80%, Sanam Holding 24.37%, Sanlam Maroc 6.08%, Aljia Holding 3.48%, other shareholders 15.27%). Unimer SA itself was founded on 29 June 1973 through the merger of the Pecadir, Saretam, Unimaco and Etamar canneries and listed on the Casablanca Stock Exchange in 2001, per the company's earlier December 2010 regulatory filing for its merger with La Monégasque Vanelli Maroc.
🇲🇨 La Monégasque and other Monégasque brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 12 brands that began in Monaco. 1 of them (8%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, La Monégasque among them.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of La Monégasque?
The parent company of La Monégasque is Unimer, a publicly listed company headquartered in Morocco.
Is La Monégasque Monégasque or Moroccan?
La Monégasque originated in Monaco in 1942, but it is owned today by Unimer, which is headquartered in Morocco. So La Monégasque is a Monégasque-origin brand under Moroccan ownership.
Since when has Unimer owned La Monégasque?
Unimer has owned La Monégasque since 6 January 2011.
Is La Monégasque still owned by Unimer?
Yes. As of 21 September 2026, La Monégasque is still owned by Unimer. 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] Unimer SA — Rapport Financier Semestriel 2024 — Unimer SA, Stock exchange filing, published 20 September 2024; retrieved 21 September 2026.
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