Who owns Similac?
Similac is owned by Abbott (the United States, NYSE: ABT).[1]
Evidence: Abbott Laboratories Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-20, SEC EDGAR, 20 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Abbott Laboratories verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Abbott Park, Illinois
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Category
- Food › Baby & infant food › Infant formula
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: ABT
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Similac
Similac is Abbott's infant formula brand and the anchor of its nutrition business. Its 10-K lists the variants individually, which gives a sense of how the category works: Similac 360 Total Care and 360 Total Care Sensitive, Pro-Advance, Advance, Sensitive, NeoSure, Organic, Special Care, Total Comfort, Soy Isomil and Alimentum, plus the follow-on line sold as Go & Grow by Similac. Together with Reckitt's Enfamil it accounts for most infant formula sold in the United States, a concentration that turned the 2022 formula shortage into a national shortage.
How often Abbott names Similac 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 less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Similac
Where Similac sits in Abbott
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Abbott
Abbott controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in infant formula, and who owns them
The 23 brands in infant formula on Brandtree belong to 15 owners. The largest is The a2 Milk Company, with 4; Abbott has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| a2 Genesis | The a2 Milk Company | 🇳🇿 New Zealand |
| BebeLait | Nutridar | 🇯🇴 Jordan |
| Bellamy's Organic | Mengniu | 🇨🇳 China |
| Dielac | Vinamilk | 🇻🇳 Vietnam |
| Nuralac | Almarai | 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia |
| Bubs | Bubs Australia | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Aptamil | Danone | 🇫🇷 France |
| Feihe | Feihe | 🇨🇳 China |
About the owner: Abbott
Abbott is a publicly listed company headquartered in Abbott Park, Illinois, United States, founded in 1900. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: ABT.
Abbott is an Illinois corporation incorporated in 1900 and one of the largest diversified healthcare companies in the world. It reports in four segments — Established Pharmaceutical Products, Diagnostic Products, Nutritional Products and Medical Devices — and only the third of those puts Abbott's names on supermarket shelves. Its 10-K lists Similac and EleCare in infant formula, Ensure, Glucerna, PediaSure and Pedialyte in adult and other paediatric nutrition, and a separate range of enteral feeds such as Jevity, Osmolite and Nepro sold into hospitals. The larger part of the company is diagnostics and devices, including the FreeStyle Libre glucose monitors, the BinaxNOW rapid tests and the i-STAT point-of-care systems, none of which is a consumer brand in the sense this site uses. Abbott agreed to acquire Exact Sciences in November 2025.
🇺🇸 Similac and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Similac is not one of them.
Official recalls involving Similac products
1 recall notice from government regulators matched to Similac. Each applies to the specific products, sizes and lot codes named in the notice, not to every product sold under the name.
- Similac Probiotic Tri-Blend - 0.017oz (0.50g) packaged in foil packets. 50 foil packets per carton - 3 cartons per case. — FDA, · Class II
Reason given: Marketed towards preterm infants without approval as a new drug or licensed biologic, as well as unsafe food additive
Recalling firm: Abbott Laboratories
Matched automatically from FDA, USDA FSIS, UK Food Standards Agency and CPSC records only when the recalling firm corresponds to this ownership record and, for a brand, the brand name appears in the product description. Check the linked notice for exact products and lots. Method.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Similac?
The parent company of Similac is Abbott, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Similac American?
Yes. Similac originated in the United States and its owner, Abbott, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Similac still owned by Abbott?
Yes. As of 26 September 2026, Similac is still owned by Abbott. 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] Abbott Laboratories Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-20 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 20 February 2026; retrieved 26 September 2026.
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