Who owns Polar Food?
Polar Food is owned by Conaprole (Uruguay).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Conaprole — Memoria Anual 2025 (Reporte de Sustentabilidad 2025), Cooperativa Nacional de Productores de Leche. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Cooperativa Nacional de Productores de Leche reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇾 Uruguay
- Origin
- 🇺🇾 Uruguay
- Category
- Food › Frozen food › Frozen meals & pizza
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Polar Food
Polar Food is the frozen food brand of Conaprole, Uruguay's dairy co-operative. It covers pre-fried chips, garlic bread with mozzarella, beef and cheese or ham and cheese empanadas, chicken nuggets, mozzarella sticks, hake fingers and fillets, frozen vegetables, strawberries and blueberries. Conaprole's president wrote in the 2025 annual report that the co-operative was consolidating the brand with a wider range of frozen products.
Ownership timeline of Polar Food
Where Polar Food sits in Conaprole
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Conaprole
Conaprole controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in frozen meals & pizza, and who owns them
The 41 brands in frozen meals & pizza on Brandtree belong to 31 owners. The largest is Nomad Foods, with 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Banquet | Conagra Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Hot Pockets | Nestlé | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Aunt Bessie's | Nomad Foods | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Crepini | Cal-Maine Foods | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Authentic Asia | CP Foods | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| Chicago Town | Dr. Oetker | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Bagel Bites | Kraft Heinz | 🇺🇸 United States |
| LaMasă | AQUILA | 🇷🇴 Romania |
About the owner: Conaprole
Conaprole is a cooperative headquartered in Uruguay, founded in 1936. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control.
Conaprole is Uruguay's national dairy co-operative, created by Law 9,526 of 14 December 1935 and in operation from 1 June 1936. It takes the milk of 1,362 dairy farms, 73 per cent of the country's supply, and more than 80 per cent of what it receives is exported, to over 70 destinations led by Algeria and Brazil. In the year to July 2025 its revenue passed one billion dollars again, and Uruguay's state bank named it the country's largest exporter. At home it sells more than 300 products, from milk and cheese to ice cream and frozen food.
🇺🇾 Polar Food and other Uruguayan brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 8 brands that began in Uruguay. 2 of them (25%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Polar Food is not one of them.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Polar Food?
The parent company of Polar Food is Conaprole, a cooperative headquartered in Uruguay.
Is Polar Food Uruguayan?
Yes. Polar Food originated in Uruguay and its owner, Conaprole, is also headquartered in Uruguay.
Is Polar Food still owned by Conaprole?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Polar Food is still owned by Conaprole. 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] Conaprole — Memoria Anual 2025 (Reporte de Sustentabilidad 2025) — Cooperativa Nacional de Productores de Leche, Annual report; retrieved 16 September 2026.
- [2] Conaprole — catálogo de productos — Cooperativa Nacional de Productores de Leche, Official document; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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