Who owns Van's?
Van's is owned by Cal-Maine Foods (the United States, NASDAQ: CALM), which has owned the brand since 12 May 2026.[1]
Evidence: Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-07-22, SEC EDGAR, 22 July 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Ridgeland, Mississippi
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Category
- Food › Frozen food › Frozen meals & pizza
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: CALM
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Van's
Van's is one of the two brands in Cal-Maine's prepared foods segment, which sells pre-cooked egg patties, omelettes, folded and scrambled egg formats, pancakes, waffles and specialty wraps. It did not start there: Cal-Maine bought the Van's Foods business from Sara Lee Frozen Bakery, LLC for about $24.8 million with effect from 12 May 2026, acquiring its trademarks and trade names, customer networks and inventory in what it accounted for as an asset acquisition rather than a business combination.
What Cal-Maine Foods's annual report says about Van's
Sentences about Van's from Cal-Maine Foods's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Effective May 12, 2026, we acquired certain assets of the Van's Foods ("Van 's") business of Sara Lee Frozen Bakery, LLC for approximately $24.8 million.
The decrease is primarily due to the acquisitions of Echo Lake Foods, Creighton Brothers, LLC, Clean Egg, LLC, and Van's Foods, totaling $452.6 million.
Other Acquisitions and Investments Effective May 12, 2026 , the Company acquired certain assets of Van's Foods business of Sara Lee Frozen Bakey, LLC ("Van's") for approximately $ 24.8 million.
How often Cal-Maine Foods names Van's in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Van's
- 2026 – present Cal-Maine Foods [1] verified
Where Van's sits in Cal-Maine Foods
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Cal-Maine Foods
Cal-Maine Foods controls 7 brands on Brandtree, 7 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in frozen meals & pizza, and who owns them
The 39 brands in frozen meals & pizza on Brandtree belong to 29 owners. The largest is Nomad Foods, with 3; Cal-Maine Foods has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Banquet | Conagra Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Hot Pockets | Nestlé | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Aunt Bessie's | Nomad Foods | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Authentic Asia | CP Foods | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| Chicago Town | Dr. Oetker | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Bagel Bites | Kraft Heinz | 🇺🇸 United States |
| LaMasă | AQUILA | 🇷🇴 Romania |
| I&J | AVI | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
About the owner: Cal-Maine Foods
Cal-Maine Foods is a publicly listed company headquartered in Ridgeland, Mississippi, United States, founded in 1957. Brandtree records 7 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: CALM.
Cal-Maine Foods is the largest egg company in the United States by its own account, founded in 1957 and run from Ridgeland, Mississippi. It has acquired and integrated 28 businesses since 1989 and depends heavily on a single customer: Walmart, including Sam's Club, took 30.0 per cent of its net sales in the year to 30 May 2026. In the fourth quarter of that year it split itself into three reporting segments — conventional shell eggs, specialty shell eggs and prepared foods — reflecting a strategy of building an egg-based food business less exposed to the swings in the shell egg price that halved its conventional segment's sales in a single year.
Cal-Maine Foods: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Van's and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Van's is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Van's?
The parent company of Van's is Cal-Maine Foods, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Van's American?
Yes. Van's originated in the United States and its owner, Cal-Maine Foods, is also headquartered in the United States.
Since when has Cal-Maine Foods owned Van's?
Cal-Maine Foods has owned Van's since 12 May 2026.
Is Van's still owned by Cal-Maine Foods?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Van's is still owned by Cal-Maine Foods. 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] Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-07-22 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 22 July 2026; retrieved 26 September 2026.
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