Lamb Weston: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Lamb Weston (NYSE: LW) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Eagle, Idaho, United States that owns 2 consumer brands, and has 1 recorded transaction.[1][2]
Lamb Weston was founded in Oregon in 1950 and invented the water gun knife, which cuts potatoes into chips by firing them through a grid of blades at high speed, still the industry standard. Conagra spun it off in 2016, and it is one of the largest frozen potato producers in the world.
What Lamb Weston's annual report says about its business
Read from Lamb Weston's latest annual filing[1]. Each line gives the sentence the filing uses, copied word for word.
Segments the filing names
North America, International: During fiscal 2026, we operated our business in two reportable segments: North America and International.
Lamb Weston in numbers
Lamb Weston owns 2 consumer brands tracked here across 1 top-level categories; the largest is food with 2 brands.[1]
1 recorded acquisitions, 1 of them completed since 2015.
Lamb Weston financial history
Headline figures from Lamb Weston's annual reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, in USD as reported, fiscal years ending 2021–2026.
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 Lamb Weston
Holders of more than 5% of the voting shares, as listed in Lamb Weston's proxy statement filed 30 July 2026. Shareholdings change daily; this is the position the filing reports.
Holder
Shares
Share of class
BlackRock, Inc.
16,348,630
11.9%
T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
9,824,721
7.1%
Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC
8,192,863
6%
Vanguard Capital Management LLC
7,297,371
5.3%
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
7,070,793
5.1%
Everything Lamb Weston owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
Conagra separated its frozen potato business as Lamb Weston, distributing shares to Conagra shareholders. The two businesses had little in common: one supplied restaurants with commodity potato products, the other sold branded food in supermarkets, and each was valued differently by investors.
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.
4 recall notices from government regulators matched to Lamb Weston.
Each applies to the specific products, sizes and lot codes named in the notice, not to every product sold under the name.
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 Lamb Weston own?
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Lamb Weston owns 2 consumer brands tracked here, including Lamb Weston and Grown in Idaho.
Is Lamb Weston an American company?
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Yes. Lamb Weston is headquartered in Eagle, Idaho, United States and was founded in 1950.
Who owns Lamb Weston?
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Lamb Weston is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as LW on the NYSE.
What was Lamb Weston's most recent acquisition?
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The most recent completed acquisition recorded here is Lamb Weston and Grown in Idaho on 9 November 2016.
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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