Kraft Heinz: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ: KHC) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States that owns 21 consumer brands across 2 categories and makes and sells 1 consumer brand under licence without owning the name, and has 1 recorded transaction.[1][2]
Kraft Heinz was created in 2015 by the merger of Kraft Foods Group and H. J. Heinz, a deal engineered by 3G Capital and Berkshire Hathaway. Berkshire Hathaway remains its largest shareholder.
What Kraft Heinz's annual report says about its business
Read from Kraft Heinz's latest annual filing[1]. Each line gives the sentence the filing uses, copied word for word.
Segments the filing names
North America: Our manufacturing and processing facilities count by segment as of December 27, 2025 was: Owned Leased North America 32 2
International Developed Markets: We have two reportable segments defined by geographic region: North America and International Developed Markets.
North America segment, International Developed Markets segment, Emerging Markets: In 2025, the five largest customers in our North America segment accounted for approximately 46% of North America segment net sales, the five largest customers in our International Developed Markets segment accounted for approximately 27% of International Developed Markets net sales, and the five largest customers in Emerging Markets accounted for approximately 15% of Emerging Markets net sales.
Acquisitions and disposals named in the filing
Sold or exited: infant and specialty food business in Italy (December 31, 2025). On December 31, 2025, in the first quarter of our fiscal year 2026, we divested our infant and specialty food business in Italy, which included our intellectual property rights to the Plasmon brand.
Sold or exited: our infant nutrition business in Russia (2024); our Papua New Guinea subsidiary (2024). In 2024, we closed the sale of our infant nutrition business in Russia (the "Russia Infant Transaction") and the sale of 100% of the equity interests in our Papua New Guinea subsidiary (the "Papua New Guinea Transaction"), both within Emerging Markets.
Sold or exited: a manufacturing facility in China (2025). In 2025, as part of our planned restructuring activities, we sold a manufacturing facility in China within our Asia Emerging Markets operating segment.
Kraft Heinz in numbers
Kraft Heinz owns 21 consumer brands tracked here across 2 top-level categories; the largest is food with 19 brands.[1]
Kraft Heinz has sold or spun off 1 businesses or brands recorded here.
3 of its brands originated outside United States.
Kraft Heinz financial history
Headline figures from Kraft Heinz's annual reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, in USD as reported, fiscal years ending 2020–2025.
Revenue moved from $26.2bn to $24.9bn, an average of -1.0% 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 Kraft Heinz
Holders of more than 5% of the voting shares, as listed in Kraft Heinz's proxy statement filed 3 April 2026. Shareholdings change daily; this is the position the filing reports.
Holder
Shares
Share of class
Berkshire Hathaway
325,442,152
27.45%
The Vanguard Group
101,970,445
8.6%
BlackRock
69,611,521
5.87%
Everything Kraft Heinz owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
Hormel bought the Planters nut business from Kraft Heinz, which was selling non-core brands to reduce debt after the failure of its cost-cutting strategy. It was the largest acquisition Hormel had made.
Kraft Heinz controlled this brand in the past. Each row shows when the ownership ended and who holds the brand now, so a page that once said Kraft Heinz owned it still shows why it no longer does.
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 Kraft Heinz.
Each applies to the specific products, sizes and lot codes named in the notice, not to every product sold under the name.
Reason given: Product Contamination; Unfit for Human Consumption
Recalling firm: Kraft Heinz Foods Company · Brand: Oscar Mayer
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 Kraft Heinz own?
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Kraft Heinz owns 21 consumer brands tracked here, including Miracle Whip, Philadelphia (North America), Jell-O, Grey Poupon, Heinz and HP Sauce.
Is Kraft Heinz an American company?
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Yes. Kraft Heinz is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States and was founded in 2015.
Who owns Kraft Heinz?
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Kraft Heinz is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as KHC on the NASDAQ.
Sources (3) & 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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