Who owns Smart?
Smart, a food brand, is owned by M. Dias Branco (Brazil, B3: MDIA3), which has owned the brand since 3 November 2021.[1][2]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: M. Dias Branco — Integrated Annual Report 2025, M. Dias Branco S.A. Indústria e Comércio de Alimentos. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- M. Dias Branco S.A. Indústria e Comércio de Alimentos reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇧🇷 Brazil, Eusébio
- Origin
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Category
- Food › Condiments, sauces & seasonings › Spices & seasonings
- Parent ticker
- B3: MDIA3
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Smart
Smart is a salts and seasonings brand that M. Dias Branco acquired in 2021, in the same move that brought in the Fit Food healthy range and the Frontera Tex-Mex brand. The company says these deals strengthened its position in healthy products. Smart gives the pasta and biscuit maker a foothold in seasonings sold alongside its other supermarket brands.
Ownership timeline of Smart
- 2021 – present M. Dias Branco [1][2] reported
Where Smart sits in M. Dias Branco
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by M. Dias Branco
M. Dias Branco controls 11 brands on Brandtree, 11 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in spices & seasonings, and who owns them
The 46 brands in spices & seasonings on Brandtree belong to 31 owners. The largest is Patisen, with 5.
About the owner: M. Dias Branco
M. Dias Branco is a publicly listed company headquartered in Eusébio, Brazil. Brandtree records 11 brands under its control, and it is listed as B3: MDIA3.
M. Dias Branco is a Brazilian food company based in Eusébio, Ceará, with industrial units in several Brazilian states and one in Montevideo, Uruguay. Its roots are the Padaria Imperial bakery in Ceará, where the Portuguese baker Manuel Dias Branco baked cookies and crackers from 1951. The company says it has led Brazil's crackers and cookies and pasta markets by sales volume since 2003 and became the granola market leader in 2024. It listed on B3's Novo Mercado in 2006 and reported 2025 net revenue of R$10.4 billion.
M. Dias Branco: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇧🇷 Smart and other Brazilian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 177 brands that began in Brazil. 32 of them (18%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Smart is not one of them.
- Biotônico Fontoura — Hypera 🇧🇷
- Camil — Camil 🇧🇷
- Friboi — JBS 🇧🇷
- Guarani — Tereos 🇫🇷
- Perdigão — MBRF 🇧🇷
- Queensberry — Hero Group 🇨🇭
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Smart?
The parent company of Smart is M. Dias Branco, a publicly listed company headquartered in Brazil.
Is Smart Brazilian?
Yes. Smart originated in Brazil and its owner, M. Dias Branco, is also headquartered in Brazil.
Since when has M. Dias Branco owned Smart?
M. Dias Branco has owned Smart since 3 November 2021.
Is Smart still owned by M. Dias Branco?
Yes. As of 26 October 2026, Smart is still owned by M. Dias Branco. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (2) & 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] M. Dias Branco — Integrated Annual Report 2025 — M. Dias Branco S.A. Indústria e Comércio de Alimentos, Annual report; retrieved 16 September 2026.
- [2] Comunicado ao Mercado – Conclusão da Aquisição Latinex — M. Dias Branco S.A. Indústria e Comércio de Alimentos, Stock exchange filing, published 3 November 2021; retrieved 26 October 2026.
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