Siggi's is owned by Lactalis (France), which acquired the brand in 2018.[1][2] Before Lactalis, Siggi's was owned by Danone from 2016 to 2018.[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Our brands - Lactalis USA, Lactalis USA (Groupe Lactalis). Last checked .
Siggi's makes skyr, the strained Icelandic dairy product, founded in New York in 2004 by an Icelander who could not find it in American shops. It is sold on low sugar content relative to other yoghurts. Lactalis acquired the business in 2018.
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Lactalis controls 12 brands on Brandtree, 12 of them in food.
The 83 brands in yogurt on Brandtree belong to 48 owners. The largest is Danone, with 5; Lactalis has 3.
Lactalis is a family-owned company headquartered in Laval, France, founded in 1933. Brandtree records 12 brands under its control.
Lactalis is the largest dairy company in the world by revenue, founded in Laval, France in 1933 and still owned by the Besnier family, which has never listed it. It publishes limited financial information and has grown almost entirely by acquiring national dairy champions across Europe, the Americas and Australia.
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, Siggi's among them.
Lactalis acquired Siggi's, an American skyr maker founded by an Icelandic immigrant who could not find yoghurt as thick or as low in sugar as the one he had grown up with. The price was not disclosed and only the year is documented here.
The parent company of Siggi's is Lactalis, a family-owned company headquartered in France.
Siggi's originated in the United States in 2004, but it is owned today by Lactalis, which is headquartered in France. So Siggi's is an American-origin brand under French ownership.
Lactalis completed its acquisition of Siggi's in 2018, after announcing the deal in 2018. The price was not disclosed.
Before Lactalis, Siggi's was owned by Danone from 2016 until 2018.
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Siggi's is still owned by Lactalis. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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