Who owns Zachinal?
Zachinal is owned by Alkaloid (North Macedonia, MSE: ALK).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Consolidated Annual Report ALKALOID AD Skopje for 2025, 1 February 2026 (archived copy). Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- ALKALOID AD Skopje reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇲🇰 North Macedonia, Skopje
- Origin
- 🇲🇰 North Macedonia
- Category
- Food › Condiments, sauces & seasonings › Spices & seasonings
- Parent ticker
- MSE: ALK
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Zachinal
Zachinal is Alkaloid's food seasoning, a savoury all-purpose mix of the kind used across the Balkans in place of stock cubes, and the company names it as one of the products of its Botanicals division next to GRINI spices and iodised salt. Its name comes from the Macedonian word for seasoning, which has made it close to a generic term for the category in its home market.
Ownership timeline of Zachinal
Where Zachinal sits in Alkaloid
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Alkaloid
Alkaloid controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in spices & seasonings, and who owns them
The 44 brands in spices & seasonings on Brandtree belong to 29 owners. The largest is Patisen, with 5; Alkaloid has 2.
About the owner: Alkaloid
Alkaloid is a publicly listed company headquartered in Skopje, North Macedonia, founded in 1936. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as MSE: ALK.
Alkaloid is North Macedonia's largest pharmaceutical company, named for the plant alkaloids it was set up to extract, and it says it has been making medicines, cosmetics and chemicals and processing herbal raw material for nearly nine decades — it marks its ninetieth anniversary in 2026. It runs two profit centres, Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals, Cosmetics and Botanicals, and reported consolidated revenue of 21.74 billion denars in 2025, up 11 per cent. Its shares have traded on the Macedonian Stock Exchange since 2002 and are held by 6,464 shareholders; it employs 784 people outside North Macedonia across 27 subsidiaries and sells into more than 50 countries.
🇲🇰 Zachinal and other Macedonian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 25 brands that began in North Macedonia. All of them are controlled from North Macedonia.
- Bonitas — Vitaminka 🇲🇰
- Alexandria — Tikveš 🇲🇰
- Brilijant — Vitaminka 🇲🇰
- Cake Up — Vitaminka 🇲🇰
- Choco Stobi — Vitaminka 🇲🇰
- Dafinka — Vitaminka 🇲🇰
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Zachinal?
The parent company of Zachinal is Alkaloid, a publicly listed company headquartered in North Macedonia.
Is Zachinal Macedonian?
Yes. Zachinal originated in North Macedonia and its owner, Alkaloid, is also headquartered in North Macedonia.
Is Zachinal still owned by Alkaloid?
Yes. As of 25 September 2026, Zachinal is still owned by Alkaloid. 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] Consolidated Annual Report ALKALOID AD Skopje for 2025 — ALKALOID AD Skopje, Annual report, published 1 February 2026; retrieved 25 September 2026. The original address no longer opens it, so the link goes to an archived copy (original address).
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