Who owns Manner?
Manner is owned by Josef Manner & Comp. AG (Austria, VIE: MAN).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Josef Manner & Comp. AG Jahresfinanzbericht 2025, 23 April 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Josef Manner & Comp. AG reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇦🇹 Austria, Vienna
- Origin
- 🇦🇹 Austria, Vienna
- Founded
- 1890 by Josef Manner
- Category
- Food › Snacks › Cookies & crackers
- Parent ticker
- VIE: MAN
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Manner
Manner is the pink-wrapped Viennese wafer brand. Josef Manner opened a chocolate shop at Stephansplatz in 1889 and bought a small chocolate factory in 1890, registering St. Stephen's Cathedral as his trademark. The wafer first appeared in 1898 as Neapolitan Wafer No. 239, named for the Neapolitan hazelnuts in its cream, and the company says the pack size has never changed. In 2025 Manner registered its pink as an abstract colour mark in Germany.
Ownership timeline of Manner
Where Manner sits in Manner
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Manner
Manner controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in cookies & crackers, and who owns them
The 141 brands in cookies & crackers on Brandtree belong to 57 owners. The largest is Valeo Foods, with 13; Manner has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Andante | Valeo Foods | 🇮🇪 Ireland |
| belVita | Mondelēz | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Choco Mucho | Rebisco | 🇵🇭 Philippines |
| Eti Burçak | Eti | 🇹🇷 Turkey |
| emNAU | Paradise Foods | 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea |
| Fortaleza | M. Dias Branco | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Biskrem | Ülker Bisküvi | 🇹🇷 Turkey |
| Bourbon | Bombay Burmah | 🇮🇳 India |
About the owner: Manner
Manner is a publicly listed company headquartered in Vienna, Austria, founded in 1890. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as VIE: MAN.
Josef Manner & Comp. AG is a Viennese confectioner founded in 1890 that makes wafers, dragées and aerated sweets, and says it is the number one in the Austrian and German wafer-slice market. It is listed in Vienna but controlled by a shareholder syndicate: the Manner/Riedl syndicate, formed by the Manner private foundation and a number of individuals, holds more than half of the voting rights. Revenue rose to €304.3 million in 2025 while profit fell by more than half to about €9 million, which the company put down to raw material costs up 25 per cent, cocoa above all, and a €4.8 million write-down on its hazelnut farm in Azerbaijan. Everything it sells is made in Vienna and Wolkersdorf.
🇦🇹 Manner and other Austrian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 33 brands that began in Austria. 18 of them (55%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Manner is not one of them.
- Hubers — Bell Food Group 🇨🇭
- Mautner Markhof — Develey 🇩🇪
- Vegini — Avril 🇫🇷
- Wiener Zucker — AGRANA 🇦🇹
- AKG — Samsung Electronics 🇰🇷
- Atomic — Amer Sports 🇫🇮
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Manner?
The parent company of Manner is Josef Manner & Comp. AG, a publicly listed company headquartered in Austria.
Is Manner Austrian?
Yes. Manner originated in Austria in 1890 and its owner, Josef Manner & Comp. AG, is also headquartered in Austria.
Is Manner still owned by Josef Manner & Comp. AG?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Manner is still owned by Josef Manner & Comp. AG. 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] Josef Manner & Comp. AG Jahresfinanzbericht 2025 — Josef Manner & Comp. AG, Annual report, published 23 April 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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