Who owns Minute?
Minute is owned by Ebro Foods (Spain, BME: EBRO).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Ebro Foods Group — Consolidated Financial Statements and Management Report 2025, Ebro Foods, S.A. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Ebro Foods, S.A. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇪🇸 Spain, Madrid
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Category
- Food › Meals & meal components › Pasta
- Parent ticker
- BME: EBRO
- Trademark registrant
- Riviana Foods Inc. (USPTO)
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Minute
Minute is a rice brand owned by Ebro Foods through Riviana Foods in Houston, and one of the brands Ebro credits with leading the instant and microwaveable rice segments in the United States. Ebro treats microwaveable rice in the US as a higher-growth business line. The name is unrelated to Minute Maid juice, which belongs to Coca-Cola.
Trademark record for Minute
The USPTO record for the Minute mark lists Riviana Foods Inc. as the owner of record (serial number 77924392). 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 Minute
- Current owner Ebro Foods [1] reported
Where Minute sits in Ebro Foods
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Ebro Foods
Ebro Foods controls 15 brands on Brandtree, 15 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in pasta, and who owns them
Ebro Foods has more brands in pasta on Brandtree than any other owner: 15 of 121.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Indomie | Indofood | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| Camil | Camil | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Mimee | Dufil Prima Foods | 🇳🇬 Nigeria |
| Don Vicente | Molinos | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Corticella | Newlat Group | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Chikin Ramen | Nissin Foods | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| La Cantonesa | CMI | 🇬🇹 Guatemala |
| Daawat | LT Foods | 🇮🇳 India |
About the owner: Ebro Foods
Ebro Foods is a publicly listed company headquartered in Madrid, Spain. Brandtree records 15 brands under its control, and it is listed as BME: EBRO.
Ebro Foods is a Madrid-based food group that describes itself as Europe's leading rice company, with a second business in premium dry pasta and fresh pasta. It runs a multi-brand model through subsidiaries: the Herba group in Europe, Riviana in the United States, Tilda in the United Kingdom, Lustucru in France, Bertagni and Garofalo in Italy, and Olivieri in Canada. Its brands hold the number one position in rice retail in Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands, and Riviana is the largest rice company in the United States.
🇺🇸 Minute and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,570 brands that began in the United States. 501 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Minute among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Minute?
The parent company of Minute is Ebro Foods, a publicly listed company headquartered in Spain.
Is Minute American or Spanish?
Minute originated in the United States, but it is owned today by Ebro Foods, which is headquartered in Spain. So Minute is an American-origin brand under Spanish ownership.
Is Minute still owned by Ebro Foods?
Yes. As of 2 October 2026, Minute is still owned by Ebro Foods. 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] Ebro Foods Group — Consolidated Financial Statements and Management Report 2025 — Ebro Foods, S.A., Annual report; retrieved 16 September 2026.
- [2] USPTO: MINUTE, serial 77924392 — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark registry; retrieved 2 October 2026.
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