Who owns Nestlé Toll House?
Nestlé Toll House is owned by Nestlé (Switzerland, SIX: NESN).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Nestlé S.A. Annual Report 2025, 19 February 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Nestlé S.A. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland, Vevey
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 1939
- Category
- Food › Meals & meal components › Baking mixes & ingredients
- Parent ticker
- SIX: NESN
- Trademark registrant
- Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (USPTO)
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Nestlé Toll House
Nestlé Toll House is a baking chocolate brand named after the Massachusetts inn where Ruth Wakefield created the chocolate chip cookie in the 1930s by chopping a Nestlé bar into a biscuit dough. Nestlé acquired the rights to print her recipe on its packaging, and the chips have carried it ever since.
Trademark record for Nestlé Toll House
The USPTO record for the Nestlé Toll House mark lists Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. as the owner of record (serial number 86589426). That name matches the owner named above.[2]
Ownership timeline of Nestlé Toll House
Where Nestlé Toll House sits in Nestlé
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Nestlé
Nestlé controls 32 brands on Brandtree, 18 of them in food.
Also in food
- Aero (1935)
- Boost (1994)
- Carnation (1899)
- Cerelac (1867)
- Chocapic (1984)
- Coffee mate (1961)
- Fitness (1993)
- Garden Gourmet (1996)
- Gerber (1927)
- Hot Pockets (1983)
- KitKat (1935)
- La Lechera (1925)
- Lean Cuisine (1981)
- Maggi (1884)
- NAN (1962)
- Smarties (1937)
- Stouffer's (1922)
Founded in the 1930s
Other brands in baking mixes & ingredients, and who owns them
The 72 brands in baking mixes & ingredients on Brandtree belong to 45 owners. The largest is Bidco Africa, with 5.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Cowboy | Bidco Africa | 🇰🇪 Kenya |
| EXE | Unga Group | 🇰🇪 Kenya |
| Golden Penny | Flour Mills of Nigeria | 🇳🇬 Nigeria |
| Al Horra | Lesieur Cristal | 🇲🇦 Morocco |
| Florencia | Molino Cañuelas | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Amuleia | Nisshin Seifun | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Clabber Girl | B&G Foods | 🇺🇸 United States |
| BUA Sugar | BUA Foods | 🇳🇬 Nigeria |
About the owner: Nestlé
Nestlé is a publicly listed company headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, founded in 1866. Brandtree records 32 brands under its control, and it is listed as SIX: NESN.
Nestlé is a Swiss food and drink company formed in 1905 by the merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company with Henri Nestlé's infant food business, and traces its origins to 1866. It is the largest food company in the world by revenue and is organised around coffee, pet care, nutrition, dairy, confectionery and water.
🇺🇸 Nestlé Toll House and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,550 brands that began in the United States. 479 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Nestlé Toll House among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Nestlé Toll House?
The parent company of Nestlé Toll House is Nestlé, a publicly listed company headquartered in Switzerland.
Is Nestlé Toll House American or Swiss?
Nestlé Toll House originated in the United States in 1939, but it is owned today by Nestlé, which is headquartered in Switzerland. So Nestlé Toll House is an American-origin brand under Swiss ownership.
Is Nestlé Toll House still owned by Nestlé?
Yes. As of 26 September 2026, Nestlé Toll House is still owned by Nestlé. 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] Nestlé S.A. Annual Report 2025 — Nestlé S.A., Annual report, published 19 February 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
- [2] USPTO: TOLL HOUSE, serial 86589426, registration 4851144 — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark registry; retrieved 26 September 2026.
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