https://brandtree.org/company/ferreroAcquisitions, divestitures and ownership changes involving Ferrero.https://brandtree.org/deal/ferrero-acquires-wk-kellogg-2025https://brandtree.org/deal/ferrero-acquires-wk-kellogg-2025Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTFerrero agreed to acquire WK Kellogg Co for $23 per share in cash, which would move the North American rights to Corn Flakes, Frosted Flakes and Rice Krispies to the Italian family-owned group.https://brandtree.org/deal/ferrero-acquires-wells-2022https://brandtree.org/deal/ferrero-acquires-wells-2022Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMTFerrero acquired Wells Enterprises, the largest privately held ice cream maker in the United States, bringing Blue Bunny and Halo Top into a company known for chocolate. The price was not disclosed. It followed Ferrero's earlier purchases of American confectionery and made it a substantial frozen dessert business as well.https://brandtree.org/deal/ferrero-acquires-kellogg-cookies-2019https://brandtree.org/deal/ferrero-acquires-kellogg-cookies-2019Mon, 29 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMTKellogg sold Keebler, Famous Amos and the rest of its cookies and fruit snacks business to Ferrero as it concentrated on snacks and cereal. The seller entity later became Kellanova in the 2023 split.https://brandtree.org/deal/ferrero-acquires-nestle-us-candy-2018https://brandtree.org/deal/ferrero-acquires-nestle-us-candy-2018Sat, 31 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMTNestlé sold its United States confectionery business, including Butterfinger, Baby Ruth, Crunch and around twenty other brands, to Ferrero. Nestlé kept its confectionery businesses in every other market.https://brandtree.org/deal/ferrero-acquires-thorntons-2015https://brandtree.org/deal/ferrero-acquires-thorntons-2015Fri, 21 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMTFerrero acquired Thorntons for about GBP 112 million, taking a British chocolatier founded in Sheffield in 1911 whose shops had been closing for years as supermarkets took the trade. Ferrero closed the remaining stores and kept the brand on supermarket shelves.