Who owns Wielkopolski?
Wielkopolski is half-owned by Princes Group (the United Kingdom, LSE: PRN).[1]
Princes Group owns 50% of Wielkopolski rather than all of it.
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Princes Group plc Annual Report and Accounts 2025, 24 April 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Princes Group plc (50% stake) reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, Liverpool
- Origin
- 🇵🇱 Poland
- Category
- Food › Condiments, sauces & seasonings › Cooking oils
- Parent ticker
- LSE: PRN
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Wielkopolski
Polish brand of rapeseed and other cooking oils, and of mayonnaise sold in three jar sizes. The brand website is run by EOL Polska, based in Szamotuły, and says its oil is pressed from Polish rapeseed. Princes Group's annual report says it owns one of the leading cooking oil and mayonnaise brands in Poland under the Wielkopolski name, held through its 50% Edible Oils joint operation with Archer Daniels Midland.
Ownership timeline of Wielkopolski
- Current owner Princes Group (50%) [1] reported
Where Wielkopolski sits in Princes 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 Princes Group
Princes Group controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 8 of them in food.
Also in food
- 3 Glocken
- Birkel
- Crisp 'n Dry
- Crosse & Blackwell (1819)
- Minuto
- Napolina (1965)
- Princes (1880)
Other brands in cooking oils, and who owns them
The 61 brands in cooking oils on Brandtree belong to 27 owners. The largest is Avril, with 8; Princes Group has 2.
About the owner: Princes Group
Princes Group is a publicly listed company headquartered in Liverpool, United Kingdom, founded in 1880. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control, and it is listed as LSE: PRN.
Liverpool-based maker of canned fish, tomatoes, pulses, soups, edible oils and pasta, founded in 1880 as a canned fish business and listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange on 31 October 2025. It was owned by Mitsubishi Corporation from 1989 until 2024, when Newlat Food S.p.A. (now NewPrinces S.p.A.) bought it; NewPrinces S.p.A. holds 82.70% of the shares. Besides its own brands it is a large supplier of retailers' own-label products. It also runs brands under licence (Flora, Branston, Capri-Sun) that are not listed here, and its oils business, Edible Oils Limited, is a 50% joint operation with Archer Daniels Midland (UK).
Princes Group: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇵🇱 Wielkopolski and other Polish brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 91 brands that began in Poland. 18 of them (20%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Wielkopolski among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Wielkopolski?
Wielkopolski has no sole parent company: it is half-owned by Princes Group, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Is Wielkopolski Polish or British?
Wielkopolski originated in Poland, but it is half-owned today by Princes Group, which is headquartered in the United Kingdom. So Wielkopolski is a Polish-origin brand that is half British-owned.
Is Wielkopolski still owned by Princes Group?
Yes. As of 4 October 2026, Wielkopolski is still half-owned by Princes Group. 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] Princes Group plc Annual Report and Accounts 2025 — Princes Group plc, Annual report, published 24 April 2026; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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