Who owns Wholly?
Wholly is half-owned by Hormel Foods (the United States, NYSE: HRL).[1]
Hormel Foods owns 50% of Wholly rather than all of it.
Evidence: Hormel Foods Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-12-05, SEC EDGAR, 5 December 2025. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Hormel Foods Corporation (50% stake) verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Austin, Minnesota
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 2000
- Category
- Food › Condiments, sauces & seasonings › Sauces & ketchup
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: HRL
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Wholly
Wholly makes refrigerated guacamole preserved by high-pressure processing rather than heat, which keeps the colour and flavour without cooking the avocado. Hormel lists Wholly among its brands, but the business sits in MegaMex Foods, a joint venture in which Hormel holds 50 per cent and Grupo Herdez the rest. High-pressure processing kills bacteria by force rather than temperature, which is why the avocado does not brown or cook.
How often Hormel Foods names Wholly 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 Wholly
- Current owner Hormel Foods (50%) [1] verified
Where Wholly sits in Hormel 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 Hormel Foods
Hormel Foods controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 8 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in sauces & ketchup, and who owns them
The 95 brands in sauces & ketchup on Brandtree belong to 53 owners. The largest is Develey, with 6.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bautz'ner | Develey | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Chungjungone | Daesang | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Haitian | Haitian | 🇨🇳 China |
| Chaochai | Sempio | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Búfalo | Grupo Herdez | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
| A.1. | Kraft Heinz | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Las Palmas | B&G Foods | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Erisco | Erisco Foods | 🇳🇬 Nigeria |
About the owner: Hormel Foods
Hormel Foods is a publicly listed company headquartered in Austin, Minnesota, United States, founded in 1891. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: HRL.
Hormel Foods was founded in Austin, Minnesota in 1891 as a pork processor and is best known for Spam, which it invented in 1937. The Hormel Foundation holds a controlling block of shares, an arrangement set up to keep the company independent and headquartered in its home town.
Hormel Foods: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Wholly and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,570 brands that began in the United States. 492 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Wholly is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Wholly?
Wholly has no sole parent company: it is half-owned by Hormel Foods, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Wholly American?
Yes. Wholly originated in the United States in 2000 and its owner, Hormel Foods, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Wholly still owned by Hormel Foods?
Yes. As of 29 October 2026, Wholly is still half-owned by Hormel 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] Hormel Foods Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-12-05 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 5 December 2025; retrieved 29 October 2026.
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