Who owns Melo y Cía?
Melo y Cía is owned by Grupo Melo (Panama, Latinex: MELO).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Empresas Melo, S.A. informe anual 2025 / annual report 2025. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Empresas Melo, S.A. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇵🇦 Panama, Panama City
- Origin
- 🇵🇦 Panama
- Category
- Home, garden & DIY › Home improvement › Lawn & garden
- Parent ticker
- Latinex: MELO
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Melo y Cía
Melo y Cía is the group's chain of agricultural supply stores and, by the company's own account, the largest such chain in Panama. It sells animal nutrition products and agrochemicals to farmers and smallholders, a market in which the group says it leads, and in 2025 it concentrated on strengthening its own-label lines, widening the portfolio it carries and improving stock turnover.
Ownership timeline of Melo y Cía
- Current owner Grupo Melo [1] reported
Where Melo y Cía sits in Grupo Melo
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Grupo Melo
Grupo Melo controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 2 of them in home, garden & diy.
Also in home, garden & diy
Other brands in lawn & garden, and who owns them
The 29 brands in lawn & garden on Brandtree belong to 17 owners. The largest is Bioceres, with 5.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bioceres Semillas | Bioceres | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Flymo | Husqvarna Group | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| Hayter | Toro | 🇺🇸 United States |
| AMES | Griffon | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Dolphin | Maytronics | 🇮🇱 Israel |
| Miracle-Gro | Scotts Miracle-Gro | 🇺🇸 United States |
| BASF Agricultural Solutions | BASF | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Roundup | Bayer | 🇩🇪 Germany |
About the owner: Grupo Melo
Grupo Melo is a publicly listed company headquartered in Panama City, Panama. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as Latinex: MELO.
Empresas Melo is a Panamanian holding company whose businesses run from hatcheries and feed mills to hardware shops, pet stores, vehicle dealerships and a fried chicken chain. It describes itself as 100 per cent Panamanian, with more than seventy years of agro-industrial and commercial activity, and it employed 5,528 people at the end of 2025. Sales that year were $477.61 million, of which foods were 37.9 per cent, its retail warehouses 30.2 per cent, machinery and vehicles 20.0 per cent, restaurants 10.8 per cent and real estate 1.1 per cent; net income was B/.15.9 million, up 10 per cent on 2024.
🇵🇦 Melo y Cía and other Panamanian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 13 brands that began in Panama. 5 of them (38%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Melo y Cía is not one of them.
- Air Panama — Air Panama 🇵🇦
- Banistmo — Grupo Cibest 🇨🇴
- ConnectMiles — Copa 🇵🇦
- Inteligo — IFS 🇵🇪
- La Chiricana — Dos Pinos 🇨🇷
- Toledano — CMI 🇬🇹
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Melo y Cía?
The parent company of Melo y Cía is Grupo Melo, a publicly listed company headquartered in Panama.
Is Melo y Cía Panamanian?
Yes. Melo y Cía originated in Panama and its owner, Grupo Melo, is also headquartered in Panama.
Is Melo y Cía still owned by Grupo Melo?
Yes. As of 20 September 2026, Melo y Cía is still owned by Grupo Melo. 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] Empresas Melo, S.A. informe anual 2025 / annual report 2025 — Empresas Melo, S.A., Annual report; retrieved 20 September 2026.
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