Who owns Pepperidge Farm?
Pepperidge Farm is owned by Campbell's (the United States, NASDAQ: CPB).[1]
Evidence: The Campbell's Company Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-09-24, SEC EDGAR, 24 September 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- The Campbell's Company verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Camden, New Jersey
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States, Fairfield, Connecticut
- Founded
- 1937 by Margaret Rudkin
- Category
- Food › Snacks › Cookies & crackers
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: CPB
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Pepperidge Farm
Pepperidge Farm was founded in 1937 by Margaret Rudkin, who began baking stone-ground wholemeal bread for a son with asthma and was selling to New York grocers within a year. Campbell's acquired it in 1961, and it now spans bread, biscuits and the fish-shaped Goldfish crackers.
What Campbell's's annual report says about Pepperidge Farm
Sentences about Pepperidge Farm from Campbell's's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Excluding the impacts from the additional week and the divestiture of the Pop Secret popcorn business, sales decreased primarily due to declines in chips, third-party partner brands and contract manufacturing, crackers, fresh bakery related to supply constraints and declines in pretzels, partially offset by gains in Pepperidge Farm cookies.
Excluding the impact from the divestiture of the Pop Secret popcorn business and the benefit of the additional week, sales decreased due to declines in third-party partner brands and contract manufacturing, Goldfish crackers, Snyder's of Hanover pretzels, Lance sandwich crackers, fresh bakery and Pepperidge Farm cookies.
How often Campbell's names Pepperidge Farm in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Pepperidge Farm
- Current owner Campbell's [1] verified
Where Pepperidge Farm sits in Campbell's
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Campbell's
Campbell's controls 15 brands on Brandtree, 14 of them in food.
Also in food
- Campbell's (1897)
- Cape Cod (1980)
- Goldfish (1958)
- Kettle Brand (1978)
- Lance (1913)
- Late July (2003)
- Michael Angelo's (1993)
- Noosa (2010)
- Pop Secret (1984)
- Prego (1981)
- Rao's Homemade (1992)
- Snyder's of Hanover (1909)
- Swanson (1899)
Founded in the 1930s
- V8 (1933)
Other brands in cookies & crackers, and who owns them
The 137 brands in cookies & crackers on Brandtree belong to 55 owners. The largest is Valeo Foods, with 13; Campbell's has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Andante | Valeo Foods | 🇮🇪 Ireland |
| belVita | Mondelēz | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Choco Mucho | Rebisco | 🇵🇭 Philippines |
| Eti Burçak | Eti | 🇹🇷 Turkey |
| emNAU | Paradise Foods | 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea |
| Fortaleza | M. Dias Branco | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Biskrem | Ülker Bisküvi | 🇹🇷 Turkey |
| Bourbon | Britannia | 🇮🇳 India |
About the owner: Campbell's
Campbell's is a publicly listed company headquartered in Camden, New Jersey, United States, founded in 1869. Brandtree records 15 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: CPB.
Campbell's was founded in Camden, New Jersey in 1869 and made its name with condensed soup, invented in 1897 by a chemist who realised that removing the water halved the shipping cost. It renamed itself from Campbell Soup Company in 2024 to reflect that snacks now generate about half its revenue.
🇺🇸 Pepperidge Farm and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Pepperidge Farm is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Pepperidge Farm?
The parent company of Pepperidge Farm is Campbell's, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Pepperidge Farm American?
Yes. Pepperidge Farm originated in the United States in 1937 and its owner, Campbell's, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Pepperidge Farm still owned by Campbell's?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Pepperidge Farm is still owned by Campbell's. 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] The Campbell's Company Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-09-24 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 24 September 2026; retrieved 24 September 2026.
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