Who owns La Sabrosa?
La Sabrosa is owned by La Fabril (Ecuador).[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
- Owner HQ
- 🇪🇨 Ecuador
- Origin
- 🇪🇨 Ecuador
- Category
- Food › Condiments, sauces & seasonings › Cooking oils
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About La Sabrosa
La Sabrosa is a cooking fat — manteca, the solid shortening Ecuadorian cooks use for frying and for pastry rather than a liquid oil. It is one of the products La Fabril holds an INEN quality seal for, issued against the national standard for edible cooking fat, and it sits in the same range as the company's margarines.
Ownership timeline of La Sabrosa
Where La Sabrosa 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 Sabrosa 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 Sabrosa 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 Sabrosa?
The parent company of La Sabrosa is La Fabril, a privately held company headquartered in Ecuador.
Is La Sabrosa Ecuadorian?
Yes. La Sabrosa originated in Ecuador and its owner, La Fabril, is also headquartered in Ecuador.
Is La Sabrosa still owned by La Fabril?
Yes. As of 24 September 2026, La Sabrosa 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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