Who owns Memel?
Memel is owned by VILVI Group (Lithuania, VSE: VLP1L).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Vilkyškių pieninė AB (VILVI Group) Annual Reports 2025, 27 April 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Vilkyškių pieninė AB reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇱🇹 Lithuania, Vilkyškiai
- Origin
- 🇱🇹 Lithuania
- Category
- Food › Dairy & alternatives › Cheese
- Parent ticker
- VSE: VLP1L
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Memel
Memel is VILVI Group's range of speciality cheeses: the blue-mould Memel Blue, a processed Memel Blue with hot peppers and cranberries, to which a truffle version was added in 2025, and the hard Memel Reserve, aged for 12 months. The products carry the Rambynas Regional Park label. The group says it chose the name because Memel refers to Klaipėda or, in Prussian, to the river Nemunas.
Ownership timeline of Memel
- Current owner VILVI Group [1] reported
Where Memel sits in VILVI Group
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by VILVI Group
VILVI Group controls 3 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in cheese, and who owns them
The 99 brands in cheese on Brandtree belong to 40 owners. The largest is Savencia Fromage & Dairy, with 9; VILVI Group has 2.
About the owner: VILVI Group
VILVI Group is a publicly listed company headquartered in Vilkyškiai, Lithuania, founded in 1993. Brandtree records 3 brands under its control, and it is listed as VSE: VLP1L.
Vilkyškių pieninė AB, which has traded as VILVI Group since 2020, is a Lithuanian dairy company founded in 1993 and listed on Nasdaq Vilnius since 2006. It makes cheese, fresh dairy products, industrial cream and whey and milk powders, and exports to more than 60 countries. Its ultimate controlling party is Gintaras Bertašius, who holds 60.4 per cent of the votes at shareholder meetings. Revenue rose 17 per cent in 2025 to €286.9 million, the year it finished a cheese plant costing more than €60 million in Bauska, Latvia; on 16 January 2026 it completed the purchase of Marijampolės pieno konservai, a maker of canned milk, butter and milk powder.
🇱🇹 Memel and other Lithuanian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 28 brands that began in Lithuania. 5 of them (18%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Memel is not one of them.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Memel?
The parent company of Memel is VILVI Group, a publicly listed company headquartered in Lithuania.
Is Memel Lithuanian?
Yes. Memel originated in Lithuania and its owner, VILVI Group, is also headquartered in Lithuania.
Is Memel still owned by VILVI Group?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Memel is still owned by VILVI Group. 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] Vilkyškių pieninė AB (VILVI Group) Annual Reports 2025 — Vilkyškių pieninė AB, Annual report, published 27 April 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
- [2] VILVI Group — MEMEL — Vilkyškių pieninė AB, Official document; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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