Who owns Mrs. Paul's?
Mrs. Paul's is owned by High Liner Foods (Canada, TSX: HLF), which has owned the brand since 30 June 2025.[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: High Liner Foods Incorporated 2025 Annual Information Form. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- High Liner Foods Incorporated reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇦 Canada, Lunenburg
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States, Philadelphia
- Founded
- 1946 by Edward Piszek, John Paul
- Category
- Food › Meat, poultry & seafood › Fish & seafood
- Parent ticker
- TSX: HLF
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Mrs. Paul's
Mrs. Paul's began in 1946, when Philadelphia power plant worker Edward Piszek froze unsold deviled crab cakes and started a frozen seafood business with his friend John Paul, naming it after Paul's mother. Campbell Soup bought it in 1982 and Pinnacle Foods in 1996. High Liner Foods bought the brand from Conagra Brands on 30 June 2025.
Ownership timeline of Mrs. Paul's
- 2025 – present High Liner Foods [1] reported
Where Mrs. Paul's sits in High Liner 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 High Liner Foods
High Liner Foods controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in food.
Also in food
- Fisher Boy
- High Liner (1926)
- Sea Cuisine
- Van de Kamp's (1915)
Other brands in fish & seafood, and who owns them
The 38 brands in fish & seafood on Brandtree belong to 16 owners. The largest is Bakkafrost, with 6; High Liner Foods has 5.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Islands | Bakkafrost | 🇫🇴 Faroe Islands |
| Isabel | Bolton Group | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| La Monégasque | Unimer | 🇲🇦 Morocco |
| Ōra King | NZ King Salmon | 🇳🇿 New Zealand |
| Mushroom | QL Resources | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| Ducktrap River of Maine | Mowi | 🇳🇴 Norway |
| Coln Valley Smokery | PRFoods | 🇪🇪 Estonia |
| Nutaaq | Royal Greenland | 🇬🇱 Greenland |
About the owner: High Liner Foods
High Liner Foods is a publicly listed company headquartered in Lunenburg, Canada, founded in 1899. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as TSX: HLF.
High Liner Foods is a Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, maker of value-added frozen seafood for retailers and foodservice across North America. It traces its history to W.C. Smith & Company, founded in Lunenburg in 1899, has been listed since 1967 and took its current name at the end of 1998. It runs plants in Lunenburg, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Newport News, Virginia.
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🇺🇸 Mrs. Paul's 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, Mrs. Paul's among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Mrs. Paul's?
The parent company of Mrs. Paul's is High Liner Foods, a publicly listed company headquartered in Canada.
Is Mrs. Paul's American or Canadian?
Mrs. Paul's originated in the United States in 1946, but it is owned today by High Liner Foods, which is headquartered in Canada. So Mrs. Paul's is an American-origin brand under Canadian ownership.
Since when has High Liner Foods owned Mrs. Paul's?
High Liner Foods has owned Mrs. Paul's since 30 June 2025.
Is Mrs. Paul's still owned by High Liner Foods?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Mrs. Paul's is still owned by High Liner Foods. 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] High Liner Foods Incorporated 2025 Annual Information Form — High Liner Foods Incorporated, Annual report; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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