Goya Foods: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Goya Foods is a family-owned company headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States that owns 1 consumer brand.[1]
Goya Foods was founded in New York in 1936 by a Spanish immigrant couple who bought the name from a sardine company for a dollar because it was easy to pronounce. It is the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the United States and remains family-controlled.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- Goya Foods, Inc.
- Type
- family-owned company · see all family-owned company owners
- Headquarters
- 🇺🇸 Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
- Founded
- 1936
- Wikidata
- Q5583842
- Website
- www.goya.com
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
Goya Foods in numbers
- Goya Foods owns 1 consumer brands tracked here across 1 top-level categories; the largest is food with 1 brands.[1]
Everything Goya Foods 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
Goya Foods 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)
- 54930078ZMJ096ZQCE74
- Registered name
- Goya Foods, Inc. (US)
- Registration status
- Lapsed · record updated 22 June 2026
- Parent
- None named: it reports that it has no parent that consolidates its accounts.
- Retrieved
- · GLEIF record (JSON)
Frequently asked questions
What brands does Goya Foods own?
Goya Foods owns 1 consumer brands tracked here, including Goya.
Is Goya Foods an American company?
Yes. Goya Foods is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States and was founded in 1936.
Who owns Goya Foods?
Goya Foods is privately held. Goya Foods was founded in New York in 1936 by a Spanish immigrant couple who bought the name from a sardine company for a dollar because it was easy to pronounce.
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] Goya Foods — our company — Goya Foods, Inc., Official document; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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