Skippy is owned by Hormel Foods (the United States, NYSE: HRL), which acquired the brand on 31 January 2013 for $700 million from Unilever.[1][2] Before Hormel Foods, Skippy was owned by Unilever from 2000 to 2013.[1]
Evidence: Hormel Foods Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-12-05, SEC EDGAR, 5 December 2025. Verified from filings; last checked .
Skippy is the second-largest peanut butter brand in the United States, launched in 1932 and known for introducing wide-mouth jars and, later, natural varieties. Hormel acquired it from Unilever in 2013 for $700 million.
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.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Hormel Foods controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 8 of them in food.
The 36 brands in sweet spreads & nut butters on Brandtree belong to 25 owners. The largest is Halwani Bros, with 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Halwani Brothers | Halwani Bros | 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia |
| Hero | Hero Group | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Maple Grove Farms | B&G Foods | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Bega Peanut Butter | Bega | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Jif | J.M. Smucker | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Chocolion | Patisen | 🇸🇳 Senegal |
| Highland Sugarworks | Rogers Sugar | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Matina | Cevital Agro-Industrie | 🇩🇿 Algeria |
Hormel Foods is a publicly listed company headquartered in Austin, Minnesota, United States, founded in 1891. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: HRL.
Hormel Foods was founded in Austin, Minnesota in 1891 as a pork processor and is best known for Spam, which it invented in 1937. The Hormel Foundation holds a controlling block of shares, an arrangement set up to keep the company independent and headquartered in its home town.
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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; Skippy is not one of them.
Hormel acquired Skippy from Unilever for about $700 million, buying the second largest peanut butter brand in the United States. Unilever had held it since taking over Bestfoods in 2000 and was narrowing its food portfolio; Hormel was broadening beyond tinned meat.
The parent company of Skippy is Hormel Foods, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Yes. Skippy originated in the United States in 1932 and its owner, Hormel Foods, is also headquartered in the United States.
Hormel Foods completed its acquisition of Skippy on 31 January 2013, after announcing the deal on 3 January 2013. The deal was valued at $700 million (enterprise value).
Before Hormel Foods, Skippy was owned by Unilever from 2000 until 2013.
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Skippy is still owned by Hormel Foods. 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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