Grupo Melo: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Grupo Melo (Latinex: MELO) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Panama City, Panama that owns 6 consumer brands across 4 categories.[1]
Empresas Melo is a Panamanian holding company whose businesses run from hatcheries and feed mills to hardware shops, pet stores, vehicle dealerships and a fried chicken chain. It describes itself as 100 per cent Panamanian, with more than seventy years of agro-industrial and commercial activity, and it employed 5,528 people at the end of 2025. Sales that year were $477.61 million, of which foods were 37.9 per cent, its retail warehouses 30.2 per cent, machinery and vehicles 20.0 per cent, restaurants 10.8 per cent and real estate 1.1 per cent; net income was B/.15.9 million, up 10 per cent on 2024.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- Empresas Melo, S.A. (also Grupo Melo, Grupo Melo, S.A., Melo)
- Type
- publicly listed company · see all publicly listed company owners
- Headquarters
- 🇵🇦 Panama City, Panama
- Tickers
- Latinex: MELO
- Website
- www.grupomelo.com
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
Grupo Melo in numbers
- Grupo Melo owns 6 consumer brands tracked here across 4 top-level categories; the largest is home, garden & diy with 2 brands.[1]
- 1 of its brands originated outside Panama.
Everything Grupo Melo owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Brand portfolio by category
Food (1)
Full portfolio, 6 brands, with sources → · Competitors by shared categories →
Grupo Melo in the global legal-entity registry
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) keeps an open register of legal entities. Each entity reports its own parents. We show it as a cross-check on the ownership recorded on this page, which is built from filings.
- Legal entity identifier (LEI)
- 254900KQKD25CZ27HO32
- Registered name
- Empresas Melo, S.A. (PA)
- Registration status
- Issued · record updated 17 December 2025
- Parent
- None named: it reports that no person or entity controls it.
- Retrieved
- · GLEIF record (JSON)
Frequently asked questions
What brands does Grupo Melo own?
Grupo Melo owns 6 consumer brands tracked here, including Alimentos Melo, Pet's Market, Pío Pío, COMASA, Melo y Cía and Melo Pet & Garden.
Is Grupo Melo a Panamanian company?
Yes. Grupo Melo is headquartered in Panama City, Panama.
Who owns Grupo Melo?
Grupo Melo is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as MELO on the Latinex.
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] Empresas Melo, S.A. informe anual 2025 / annual report 2025 — Empresas Melo, S.A., Annual report; retrieved 20 September 2026.
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