Who owns Marmite?
Marmite is owned by Unilever (the United Kingdom, LSE: ULVR).[1]
Evidence: Unilever PLC Annual Report on Form 20-F for 2025, SEC EDGAR, 12 March 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Unilever PLC verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, London
- Origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, Burton upon Trent
- Founded
- 1902
- Category
- Food › Condiments, sauces & seasonings › Sweet spreads & nut butters
- Parent ticker
- LSE: ULVR NYSE: UL AEX: UNA
- Trademark registrant
- CONOPCO, INC. (USPTO)
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Marmite
Marmite is a yeast extract spread first produced in Burton upon Trent in 1902, using the spent brewer's yeast that the town's breweries discarded. Its strong savoury flavour divides opinion so reliably that the brand has advertised on that basis for decades. Unilever inherited it through Bestfoods, which had earlier acquired the Marmite Food Extract Company.
Trademark record for Marmite
The USPTO record for the Marmite mark lists CONOPCO, INC. as the owner of record (serial number 71141498). A trademark is often held by a group company rather than the listed parent, so the registrant's name can differ from the owner named above.[2]
Ownership timeline of Marmite
Where Marmite sits in Unilever
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
- Axe
- Bango
- Brut
- Cif
- Clear
- Close-Up
- Colman's
- Comfort
- Degree
- Dermalogica
- Domestos
- Dove
- Dove Men+Care
- Grüns (80%)
- Hellmann's
- Horlicks
- Hourglass Cosmetics
- Impulse
- Kate Somerville
- Knorr
- Lifebuoy
- Liquid I.V.
- Living Proof
- Lux
- Lynx
- Maizena
- Marmite
- Murad
- Nexxus
- Nutrafol
- OMO
- Paula's Choice
- Pepsodent
- Persil
- Pond's
- Pot Noodle
- Radox
- Rexona
- Royco
- SheaMoisture
- Signal
- Simple
- St. Ives
- Suave (outside the United States and Canada)
- Sunlight
- Sunsilk
- Sure
- Tatcha
- The Vegetarian Butcher
- TRESemmé
- Vaseline
- VO5
- Zendium
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Other brands owned by Unilever
Unilever controls 53 brands on Brandtree, 11 of them in food.
Also in food
- Bango (1928)
- Colman's (1814)
- Grüns (2023)
- Hellmann's (1913)
- Knorr (1838)
- Liquid I.V. (2012)
- Maizena (1856)
- Pot Noodle (1977)
- Royco (1954)
- The Vegetarian Butcher (2010)
Founded in the 1900s
Other brands in sweet spreads & nut butters, and who owns them
The 36 brands in sweet spreads & nut butters on Brandtree belong to 25 owners. The largest is Halwani Bros, with 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Halwani Brothers | Halwani Bros | 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia |
| Hero | Hero Group | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Maple Grove Farms | B&G Foods | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Bega Peanut Butter | Bega | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Jif | J.M. Smucker | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Chocolion | Patisen | 🇸🇳 Senegal |
| Highland Sugarworks | Rogers Sugar | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Matina | Cevital Agro-Industrie | 🇩🇿 Algeria |
About the owner: Unilever
Unilever is a publicly listed company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, founded in 1929. Brandtree records 53 brands under its control, and it is listed as LSE: ULVR, NYSE: UL and AEX: UNA.
Unilever is a British consumer goods company formed in 1929 by the merger of Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie and British soap maker Lever Brothers. It reports through four business groups: Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care, Home Care and Foods. Its ice cream business was demerged as The Magnum Ice Cream Company in December 2025.
🇬🇧 Marmite and other British brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 552 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 291 of them (53%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Marmite is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Marmite?
The parent company of Marmite is Unilever, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Is Marmite British?
Yes. Marmite originated in the United Kingdom in 1902 and its owner, Unilever, is also headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Is Marmite still owned by Unilever?
Yes. As of 26 September 2026, Marmite is still owned by Unilever. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (2) & 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] Unilever PLC Annual Report on Form 20-F for 2025 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 12 March 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
- [2] USPTO: MARMITE, serial 71141498, registration 0146810 — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark registry; retrieved 26 September 2026.
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