Who owns Premier Protein?
Premier Protein is owned by BellRing Brands (the United States, NYSE: BRBR).[1]
Evidence: BellRing Brands, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-18, SEC EDGAR, 18 November 2025. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- BellRing Brands, Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, St. Louis, Missouri
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Category
- Food › Nutrition & supplements › Protein & sports nutrition
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: BRBR
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Premier Protein
Premier Protein is a mainstream protein shake brand whose flagship ready-to-drink shakes contain 30 grams of protein and 160 calories and are gluten- and soy-free. It came to Post Holdings with Premier Nutrition in fiscal 2013 and passed to BellRing Brands, where it accounted for 85.9 per cent of net sales in fiscal 2025.
What BellRing Brands's annual report says about Premier Protein
Sentences about Premier Protein from BellRing Brands's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
In its fiscal year ended September 30, 2013, Post acquired Premier Nutrition Corporation, which, at the time, was a marketer and distributor of high-quality protein shakes and nutrition bars under the Premier Protein brand and nutritional supplements under the Joint Juice brand.
While we believe most brands in the convenient nutrition category are positioned to appeal to consumers primarily in one need state, Premier Protein has developed brand equities and product value propositions to appeal to a broad range of consumer need states.
Our percentage of net sales by brand for our year ended September 30, 2025 were as follows: Premier Protein , 85.9%; Dymatize , 12.1%; and other, 2.0%.
How often BellRing Brands names Premier Protein 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 Premier Protein
- Current owner BellRing Brands [1] verified
Where Premier Protein sits in BellRing Brands
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by BellRing Brands
BellRing Brands controls 2 brands on Brandtree, 2 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in protein & sports nutrition, and who owns them
The 20 brands in protein & sports nutrition on Brandtree belong to 16 owners. The largest is Glanbia, with 3; BellRing Brands has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| BSN | Glanbia | 🇮🇪 Ireland |
| OWYN | Simply Good Foods | 🇺🇸 United States |
| THE:Danbaek | Binggrae | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Vitamin Whey | Edible Garden | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Herbalife24 | Herbalife | 🇰🇾 Cayman Islands |
| Selex | Maeil Dairies | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| OPTAVIA ACTIVE | Medifast | 🇺🇸 United States |
| TEHO | Olvi | 🇫🇮 Finland |
About the owner: BellRing Brands
BellRing Brands is a publicly listed company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Brandtree records 2 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: BRBR.
BellRing Brands sells ready-to-drink protein shakes and protein powders, and is almost entirely one brand: Premier Protein made up 85.9 per cent of its net sales in fiscal 2025 and Dymatize most of the rest. It was built from the active nutrition businesses Post Holdings bought between 2013 and 2015, and became fully independent when Post spun it off in March 2022 and sold its last shares that November. Walmart, Costco and Amazon together took about 74 per cent of its sales.
BellRing Brands: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Premier Protein 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; Premier Protein is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Premier Protein?
The parent company of Premier Protein is BellRing Brands, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Premier Protein American?
Yes. Premier Protein originated in the United States and its owner, BellRing Brands, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Premier Protein still owned by BellRing Brands?
Yes. As of 29 October 2026, Premier Protein is still owned by BellRing Brands. 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] BellRing Brands, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-18 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 18 November 2025; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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