Who owns Sunar?
Sunar is owned by Hero Group (Switzerland), which has owned the brand since 2002.[1][2]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Hero Group — Annual Report 2025, Hero AG. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Hero AG reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland, Lenzburg
- Origin
- 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
- Category
- Food › Baby & infant food › Baby meals & snacks
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Sunar
Sunar is the baby food brand Hero sells in Czechia and Slovakia through its Prague company, covering meal jars, cereals, snacks and formula. A conventional meal jar range launched there in 2025, and a renovated premium formula containing two human milk oligosaccharides was ready for launch in early 2026.
Ownership timeline of Sunar
- 2002 – present Hero Group [1][2] reported
Where Sunar sits in Hero Group
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Hero Group
Hero Group controls 16 brands on Brandtree, 16 of them in food.
Also in food
- Baby Gourmet
- Beech-Nut
- Corny (1984)
- Deliciously Ella
- Freche Freunde
- Goodies (2024)
- Hero (1910)
- Hero Baby (1985)
- Hero Solo
- Organix
- Queensberry (1988)
- Schwartau
- Semper
- The Gut Stuff
- Vitrac (1981)
Other brands in baby meals & snacks, and who owns them
Hero Group has more brands in baby meals & snacks on Brandtree than any other owner: 6 of 20.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Promina | Indofood | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| Cerelac | Nestlé | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Cerifam | Faffa Food | 🇪🇹 Ethiopia |
| Good Goût | H&H Group | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong |
| Earth's Best | Hain Celestial | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Anmum | Lactalis | 🇫🇷 France |
| Kiddylicious | Lotus Bakeries | 🇧🇪 Belgium |
| Love Child Organics | Nature's Path | 🇨🇦 Canada |
About the owner: Hero Group
Hero Group is a privately held company headquartered in Lenzburg, Switzerland, founded in 1886. Brandtree records 16 brands under its control.
Hero is a privately held Swiss food company founded in 1886 in Lenzburg, where its headquarters still are. Arend Oetker acquired a majority shareholding in 1995 and a member of the Oetker family sits on its board. It reported net sales of CHF 1,187 million in 2025 across three categories: Better Snacking, Naturally Good Food, which holds the jams it has made for more than a century, and Others, which holds baby and toddler milk. The Hero 2035 strategy introduced in 2025 committed the group to snacking, and its purchases have followed it: Deliciously Ella in 2024, the Brazilian snack brand Pinati in 2025 and The Gut Stuff in 2026.
🇨🇿 Sunar and other Czech brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 42 brands that began in the Czech Republic. 11 of them (26%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Sunar among them.
- Florian — AGROFERT 🇨🇿
- Korunní Cukr — AGRANA 🇦🇹
- TTD — Tereos 🇫🇷
- Allegro.cz — Allegro 🇵🇱
- Becherovka — Maspex 🇵🇱
- Bernard — Duvel Moortgat 🇧🇪
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Sunar?
The parent company of Sunar is Hero Group, a privately held company headquartered in Switzerland.
Is Sunar Czech or Swiss?
Sunar originated in the Czech Republic, but it is owned today by Hero Group, which is headquartered in Switzerland. So Sunar is a Czech-origin brand under Swiss ownership.
Since when has Hero Group owned Sunar?
Hero Group has owned Sunar since 2002.
Is Sunar still owned by Hero Group?
Yes. As of 2 October 2026, Sunar is still owned by Hero Group. 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] Hero Group — Annual Report 2025 — Hero AG, Annual report; retrieved 27 September 2026.
- [2] Hero Group history: An international house of brands 2000-2021 — Hero AG, Official document; retrieved 2 October 2026.
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