Who owns Ric-Giko?
Ric-Giko is owned by Erisco Foods (Nigeria).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Erisco Foods Limited — Brands, Our History and product category pages. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Erisco Foods Limited reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇳🇬 Nigeria, Lagos
- Origin
- 🇳🇬 Nigeria
- Category
- Food › Condiments, sauces & seasonings › Sauces & ketchup
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Ric-Giko
Ric-Giko is the third of the three brands Erisco Foods lists, a tomato paste introduced after Nagiko so that the company could sell two distinct pastes in the same shops at different positions rather than stretch a single name across the shelf. It is packed in the same sachet and tin sizes as the rest of the company's paste — from 70g up to 2.2kg — from the same concentrate produced at the company's Nigerian plant, and the company carries NAFDAC approval and Standards Organisation of Nigeria certification for its food products.
Ownership timeline of Ric-Giko
- Current owner Erisco Foods [1] reported
Where Ric-Giko sits in Erisco 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 Erisco Foods
Erisco Foods controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in sauces & ketchup, and who owns them
The 95 brands in sauces & ketchup on Brandtree belong to 53 owners. The largest is Develey, with 6; Erisco Foods has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bautz'ner | Develey | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Chungjungone | Daesang | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Haitian | Haitian | 🇨🇳 China |
| Chaochai | Sempio | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Búfalo | Grupo Herdez | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
| A.1. | Kraft Heinz | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Las Palmas | B&G Foods | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Hon Tsuyu | Kikkoman | 🇯🇵 Japan |
About the owner: Erisco Foods
Erisco Foods is a privately held company headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control.
Erisco Foods Limited is an indigenous Nigerian food manufacturer and a subsidiary of the Erisco Bonpet Group, with offices on Oyeleke Street in Oregun, Alausa Ikeja, Lagos. It describes itself as the largest tomato paste producer in Nigeria and Africa and the fourth largest in the world, with an installed capacity of 450,000 tonnes a year, more than 3,000 people on its payroll and roughly 2,500 hectares of its own farmland in northern Nigeria feeding a plant that refines fresh and dried tomato into industrial concentrate. It says it invented the processing technology that lets it work from both fresh and dried fruit, and packs paste in 70g, 150g, 210g, 400g, 800g and 2.2kg sizes in sachets and tins. Beyond tomato it sells green and black teas, seasonings, milk and chocolate cubes, non-dairy creamer and instant garri mixes.
Erisco Foods: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇳🇬 Ric-Giko and other Nigerian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 61 brands that began in Nigeria. 14 of them (23%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Ric-Giko is not one of them.
- BUA Pasta — BUA Foods 🇳🇬
- Emperor — Dufil Prima Foods 🇳🇬
- Gala — UAC of Nigeria 🇳🇬
- Golden Penny — Flour Mills of Nigeria 🇳🇬
- 33 Export — Heineken 🇳🇱
- Aero Contractors — Aero Contractors 🇳🇬
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Ric-Giko?
The parent company of Ric-Giko is Erisco Foods, a privately held company headquartered in Nigeria.
Is Ric-Giko Nigerian?
Yes. Ric-Giko originated in Nigeria and its owner, Erisco Foods, is also headquartered in Nigeria.
Is Ric-Giko still owned by Erisco Foods?
Yes. As of 20 September 2026, Ric-Giko is still owned by Erisco 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] Erisco Foods Limited — Brands, Our History and product category pages — Erisco Foods Limited, Official document; retrieved 20 September 2026.
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