Who owns Vanelli?
Vanelli is owned by Unimer (Morocco, CSE: UMR), which has owned the brand since 6 January 2011.[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Unimer SA — Rapport Financier Semestriel 2024, 20 September 2024. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Unimer SA reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇲🇦 Morocco, Casablanca
- Origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- Category
- Food › Meat, poultry & seafood › Fish & seafood
- Parent ticker
- CSE: UMR
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Vanelli
Vanelli is one of the proprietary seafood brands Unimer Group's own September 2024 semi-annual report names and depicts among its current marques, alongside Titus, La Monégasque and Madrigal. It descends from a French anchovy-processing business led by Thierry Vanelli that merged with La Monégasque's Moroccan operations in 2008 and, per Unimer's December 2010 regulatory filing, joined Unimer SA itself through the January 2011 fusion, with Vanelli going on to direct the merged group's purchasing, logistics and R&D.
Ownership timeline of Vanelli
Where Vanelli sits in Unimer
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Unimer
Unimer controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in food.
Also in food
- La Monégasque (1942)
- Madrigal
- Titus
Other brands in fish & seafood, and who owns them
The 38 brands in fish & seafood on Brandtree belong to 16 owners. The largest is Bakkafrost, with 6; Unimer has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Islands | Bakkafrost | 🇫🇴 Faroe Islands |
| Fisher Boy | High Liner Foods | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Isabel | Bolton Group | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Ōra King | NZ King Salmon | 🇳🇿 New Zealand |
| Mushroom | QL Resources | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| Ducktrap River of Maine | Mowi | 🇳🇴 Norway |
| Coln Valley Smokery | PRFoods | 🇪🇪 Estonia |
| Nutaaq | Royal Greenland | 🇬🇱 Greenland |
About the owner: Unimer
Unimer is a publicly listed company headquartered in Casablanca, Morocco, founded in 1973. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as CSE: UMR.
Unimer Group is a Moroccan seafood-products group that, per its own September 2024 semi-annual report, grew from the fusion of several 19th-century Moroccan fish canneries into what it calls one of the world's largest specialists in sardine and anchovy canning. The same report puts the group, as of that date, at 20 production sites (2 abroad), 2 logistics platforms, 6 foreign commercial subsidiaries, sales in 57 countries and eight recognised proprietary brands, and shows it majority-owned through the Sanam Agro agro-industrial arm of the Alj family's Sanam group (Sanam Agro 50.80%, Sanam Holding 24.37%, Sanlam Maroc 6.08%, Aljia Holding 3.48%, other shareholders 15.27%). Unimer SA itself was founded on 29 June 1973 through the merger of the Pecadir, Saretam, Unimaco and Etamar canneries and listed on the Casablanca Stock Exchange in 2001, per the company's earlier December 2010 regulatory filing for its merger with La Monégasque Vanelli Maroc.
🇫🇷 Vanelli and other French brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 327 brands that began in France. 102 of them (31%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Vanelli among them.
- Actimel — Danone 🇫🇷
- Babybel — Bel Group 🇫🇷
- Bonduelle — Bonduelle 🇫🇷
- Béghin Say — Tereos 🇫🇷
- Candia — Sodiaal 🇫🇷
- Caprice des Dieux — Savencia Fromage & Dairy 🇫🇷
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Vanelli?
The parent company of Vanelli is Unimer, a publicly listed company headquartered in Morocco.
Is Vanelli French or Moroccan?
Vanelli originated in France, but it is owned today by Unimer, which is headquartered in Morocco. So Vanelli is a French-origin brand under Moroccan ownership.
Since when has Unimer owned Vanelli?
Unimer has owned Vanelli since 6 January 2011.
Is Vanelli still owned by Unimer?
Yes. As of 21 September 2026, Vanelli is still owned by Unimer. 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] Unimer SA — Rapport Financier Semestriel 2024 — Unimer SA, Stock exchange filing, published 20 September 2024; retrieved 21 September 2026.
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