Who owns Sultan?
Sultan is owned by Azersun (Azerbaijan).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Azersun Holding — Our history, Our brands and Activity fields, Azersun Holding MMC. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Azersun Holding MMC reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan, Baku
- Origin
- 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
- Category
- Food › Meals & meal components › Pasta
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Sultan
Sultan is the basmati rice brand Azersun says has been one of the leading suppliers to the Azerbaijani rice market for fifteen years. The rice itself is grown in northern India, on the Himalayan foothills and the lands bordering Pakistan, and the brand sells it on the two things basmati is judged by: the aroma that survives cooking and grains that double in length when boiled. Its stated vision is squarely national — supplying the rice for plov, the dish at the centre of Azerbaijani cooking — and the range has been recognised by the International Taste Institute.
Ownership timeline of Sultan
Where Sultan sits in Azersun
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Azersun
Azersun controls 12 brands on Brandtree, 7 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in pasta, and who owns them
The 121 brands in pasta on Brandtree belong to 63 owners. The largest is Ebro Foods, with 15.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bertagni | Ebro Foods | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| Indomie | Indofood | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| Camil | Camil | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Mimee | Dufil Prima Foods | 🇳🇬 Nigeria |
| Don Vicente | Molinos | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Corticella | Newlat Group | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Chikin Ramen | Nissin Foods | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| La Cantonesa | CMI | 🇬🇹 Guatemala |
About the owner: Azersun
Azersun is a privately held company headquartered in Baku, Azerbaijan, founded in 1991. Brandtree records 12 brands under its control.
Azersun Holding is the largest food producer and exporter in Azerbaijan, built from the wreckage of the Soviet food industry by Abdolbari Gozal, an investor who arrived in 1991-92 to open a representative office of the Intersun group at a point when, on the company's own account, Azerbaijan had practically no functioning food enterprises. In 1994 he used foreign direct investment to privatise the defunct tea and oil factories in Baku and re-equip them, and the group grew outward from there: four regional canneries in Khachmaz, Bilasuvar, Lankaran and Gazakh, the 110-hectare Imishli Sugar Factory in 2006, the Masazyr Salt Plant in 2010 built under a UNICEF and health ministry iodisation programme that turned Azerbaijan from a salt importer into an exporter, the Park Bulvar shopping centre the same year, the Bazarstore supermarket chain in 2011, the Kurdamir Milk Processing Plant in 2013 and the Azersun Industrial Park near Sumgayit in 2014. It now runs more than thirty enterprises across food, agriculture, paper and packaging, makes its own cardboard and metal packaging, and describes its philosophy as "from field to table". The chairman of its supervisory board is Tahir Gozel.
🇦🇿 Sultan and other Azerbaijani brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 18 brands that began in Azerbaijan. 3 of them (17%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Sultan is not one of them.
- Azerbaijan Airlines — AZAL 🇦🇿
- Bina.az — Kaspi.kz 🇰🇿
- Silk Way Airlines — Silk Way Group 🇦🇿
- Silk Way West Airlines — Silk Way Group 🇦🇿
- Tap.az — Kaspi.kz 🇰🇿
- Turbo.az — Kaspi.kz 🇰🇿
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Sultan?
The parent company of Sultan is Azersun, a privately held company headquartered in Azerbaijan.
Is Sultan Azerbaijani?
Yes. Sultan originated in Azerbaijan and its owner, Azersun, is also headquartered in Azerbaijan.
Is Sultan still owned by Azersun?
Yes. As of 20 September 2026, Sultan is still owned by Azersun. 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] Azersun Holding — Our history, Our brands and Activity fields — Azersun Holding MMC, Official document; retrieved 20 September 2026.
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