Who owns Seabrook?
Seabrook is owned by Calbee (Japan, TSE: 2229), which has owned the brand since 2018.[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Calbee Group Integrated Report 2025, Calbee, Inc. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Calbee, Inc. reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇯🇵 Japan, Tokyo
- Origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Category
- Food › Snacks › Salty snacks
- Parent ticker
- TSE: 2229
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Seabrook
Seabrook is a well-known British potato crisp brand whose range includes Sea Salted, Beefy, Prawn Cocktail and Cheese & Onion, along with Seabrook Waves. Calbee entered the United Kingdom in 2015 with bean-based snacks and, to go beyond the better-for-you category, acquired the Seabrook Crisps business, adding the brand to its lineup from 2018.
Ownership timeline of Seabrook
Where Seabrook sits in Calbee
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Calbee
Calbee controls 9 brands on Brandtree, 9 of them in food.
Also in food
- Calbee Potato Chips (1975)
- Frugra (1991)
- Harvest Snaps (2013)
- Jagabee (2006)
- JagaRico (1995)
- Kappa Ebisen (1964)
- Sapporo Potato (1972)
- Sayaendo (1993)
Other brands in salty snacks, and who owns them
The 100 brands in salty snacks on Brandtree belong to 48 owners. The largest is PepsiCo, with 12; Calbee has 8.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Cheetos | PepsiCo | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Boyki | Siantar Top | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| Bonitas | Vitaminka | 🇲🇰 North Macedonia |
| Cape Cod | Campbell's | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Act II | Conagra Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Diana | Diana | 🇸🇻 El Salvador |
| Chiki | Indofood | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| Cuttlefish Peanut Balls | Orion | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
About the owner: Calbee
Calbee is a publicly listed company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1949. Brandtree records 9 brands under its control, and it is listed as TSE: 2229.
Calbee is Japan's dominant snack maker, established on 30 April 1949 as Matsuo Food Processing and renamed in 1955 after a portmanteau of calcium and vitamin B1. It says it holds more than half of the Japanese snack market and the top share in cereal through Frugra. PepsiCo, through its wholly owned Frito-Lay Global Investments, is Calbee's largest shareholder with 21.41 per cent under a strategic alliance begun in 2009, which also made Japan Frito-Lay a Calbee subsidiary. Calbee has been listed in Tokyo since 2011 and operates in twelve countries and regions.
🇬🇧 Seabrook and other British brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 571 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 297 of them (52%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Seabrook among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Seabrook?
The parent company of Seabrook is Calbee, a publicly listed company headquartered in Japan.
Is Seabrook British or Japanese?
Seabrook originated in the United Kingdom, but it is owned today by Calbee, which is headquartered in Japan. So Seabrook is a British-origin brand under Japanese ownership.
Since when has Calbee owned Seabrook?
Calbee has owned Seabrook since 2018.
Is Seabrook still owned by Calbee?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Seabrook is still owned by Calbee. 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] Calbee Group Integrated Report 2025 — Calbee, Inc., Annual report; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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