J.M. Smucker: brands it owns and its ownership tree
J.M. Smucker (NYSE: SJM) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Orrville, Ohio, United States that owns 9 consumer brands across 3 categories, and has 3 recorded transactions.[1][2]
J.M. Smucker was founded in 1897 in Orrville, Ohio, where Jerome Smucker pressed cider and made apple butter, selling it from a wagon with his signature on each lid as a guarantee. It is now built on three legs: coffee, pet food and consumer spreads, and the family still holds significant voting power.
What J.M. Smucker's annual report says about its business
Read from J.M. Smucker's latest annual filing[1]. Each line gives the sentence the filing uses, copied word for word.
Segments the filing names
U.S. Retail Coffee, U.S. Retail Frozen Handheld and Spreads, U.S. Retail Pet Foods: We have five reportable segments: U.S. Retail Coffee, U.S. Retail Frozen Handheld and Spreads, and U.S. Retail Pet Foods (the "U.S. Retail reportable segments"), Sweet Baked Snacks, and Away From Home.
Sweet Baked Snacks, U.S. Retail: For the U.S. Retail and Sweet Baked Snacks reportable segments, private label held a 14.0 dollar average market share during the 52 weeks ended April 19, 2026, for the categories in which we compete, as compared to a 13.7 dollar average market share during the same period in the prior year.
Away From Home: For the Away From Home reportable segment, private label held a 22.2 dollar average market share during 2026, for the categories in which we compete, as compared to a 22.9 dollar average market share during the prior year.
Acquisitions and disposals named in the filing
Acquired: Hostess Brands, $187.4. We have recognized total cumulative integration costs related to the acquisition of Hostess Brands of $187.4, of which $2.5 and $37.5 were recognized during 2026 and 2025, respectively.
Sold or exited: the Voortman business (December 2, 2024). On December 2, 2024, we sold the Voortman business to Second Nature Brands ("Second Nature").
Sold or exited: the Canada condiment business (January 2, 2024). On January 2, 2024, we sold the Canada condiment business to TreeHouse Foods, Inc. ("TreeHouse Foods").
Sold or exited: the Sahale Snacks business (November 1, 2023). On November 1, 2023, we sold the Sahale Snacks business to Second Nature.
Sold or exited: Voortman. In addition, we have made strategic divestitures of brands and businesses, including the divestitures of certain Sweet Baked Snacks value brands, and the Voortman, Canada condiment, and Sahale Snacks businesses, among others, and we may continue to do so in the future.
J.M. Smucker in numbers
J.M. Smucker owns 9 consumer brands tracked here across 3 top-level categories; the largest is food with 5 brands.[1]
3 recorded acquisitions, 1 of them completed since 2015; disclosed US-dollar deal values total $9.74 billion.
J.M. Smucker financial history
Headline figures from J.M. Smucker's annual reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, in USD as reported, fiscal years ending 2021–2026.
Revenue moved from $8bn to $9.05bn, an average of 2.5% a year (calculated).
Source: SEC XBRL company facts. A dash means the company did not report that line in a form we could read. Figures for a year can be restated in a later filing; the latest filing's number is shown.
Who owns the shares of J.M. Smucker
Holders of more than 5% of the voting shares, as listed in J.M. Smucker's proxy statement filed 26 June 2026. Shareholdings change daily; this is the position the filing reports.
Holder
Shares
Share of class
Vanguard Capital Management LLC
7,677,331
7.2%
State Street Corporation
6,932,086
6.6%
BlackRock, Inc.
6,247,310
5.9%
Everything J.M. Smucker owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
J.M. Smucker acquired Hostess Brands for $34.25 per share in cash and stock, adding Twinkies, CupCakes and Donettes to a portfolio built on coffee, peanut butter and pet snacks. Smucker outbid several other packaged food companies for the business.
Smucker acquired Folgers from Procter & Gamble for about $3.3 billion in a Reverse Morris Trust, a structure that let P&G divest the business to shareholders without a large tax charge. It made Smucker the largest packaged coffee company in the United States.
Smucker acquired Jif and Crisco from Procter & Gamble in a spin-off and merger valued at about $840 million. A company known for jam became the largest peanut butter seller in America, so the two halves of a sandwich came under one owner.
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.
1 recall notice from government regulators matched to J.M. Smucker.
Each applies to the specific products, sizes and lot codes named in the notice, not to every product sold under the name.
Reason given: Mold. The firm noticed an increase in customer complaints. They conducted a root cause investigation and discovered that one of their coolers had malfunctioning.
Recalling firm: The J.M. Smucker Company · Brand: Hostess
Matched automatically from FDA, USDA FSIS, UK Food Standards Agency and CPSC records only when the recalling firm corresponds to this ownership record and, for a brand, the brand name appears in the product description. Check the linked notice for exact products and lots. Method.
Frequently asked questions
What brands does J.M. Smucker own?
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J.M. Smucker owns 9 consumer brands tracked here, including Folgers, Smucker's, Twinkies, Hostess, Milk-Bone and Smucker's Uncrustables.
Is J.M. Smucker an American company?
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Yes. J.M. Smucker is headquartered in Orrville, Ohio, United States and was founded in 1897.
Who owns J.M. Smucker?
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J.M. Smucker is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as SJM on the NYSE.
What was J.M. Smucker's most recent acquisition?
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The most recent completed acquisition recorded here is Hostess and Twinkies on 7 November 2023.
Sources (4) & 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.
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