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Lindt & Sprüngli: brands it owns and its ownership tree

Lindt & Sprüngli (SIX: LISN) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Kilchberg, Switzerland that owns 6 consumer brands, and has 2 recorded transactions.[1]

Lindt & Sprüngli traces to a Zurich confectionery shop opened in 1845 and to Rodolphe Lindt, who invented conching in 1879, the prolonged stirring process that gives chocolate its smooth texture. It is the largest premium chocolate company in the world and owns Ghirardelli and Russell Stover in the United States.

Company facts

Legal name
Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG (also Lindt)
Type
publicly listed company · see all publicly listed company owners
Headquarters
🇨🇭 Kilchberg, Switzerland
Founded
1845
Tickers
SIX: LISN
Wikidata
Q152822
Website
www.lindt-spruengli.com
Last verified
· 3 sources

Lindt & Sprüngli in numbers

Everything Lindt & Sprüngli owns

2026

Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.

Everything Lindt & Sprüngli owns Tree of 6 brands under Lindt & Sprüngli. Lindt & Sprüngli Caffarel Ghirardelli Lindor Lindt Russell Stover Whitman's

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Brand portfolio by category

Food (6)

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Acquisitions by Lindt & Sprüngli

Acquisition closed

Lindt & Sprüngli acquires Russell Stover and Whitman's

Lindt & Sprungli bought Russell Stover Candies as an asset deal for CHF 1,499.6 million in cash, of which CHF 716.1 million was goodwill. The company calls it the biggest and most important strategic acquisition in its history: it brought Whitman's and Pangburn's with it and made the Swiss chocolatier the third largest chocolate manufacturer in North America.

Value
CHF 1.5bn
Seller
—
Regulatory
None recorded
Acquisition closed

Lindt & Sprüngli acquires Ghirardelli

Lindt & Sprungli acquired the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company of San Francisco in January 1998, its entry into North America and, by the company's own account, the beginning of its expansion into the largest chocolate market in the world. Ghirardelli had been making chocolate since 1852, which makes it older than the Swiss company that now owns it. Only the month is documented here.

Value
Undisclosed
Seller
—
Regulatory
None recorded

Lindt & Sprüngli 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)
529900JYJNNOKKAGK736
Registered name
Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG (CH)
Registration status
Issued · record updated 2 December 2025
Parent
None named: its parent has not been disclosed publicly.
Retrieved
· GLEIF record (JSON)

Frequently asked questions

What brands does Lindt & Sprüngli own?

Lindt & Sprüngli owns 6 consumer brands tracked here, including Lindt, Caffarel, Russell Stover, Whitman's, Ghirardelli and Lindor.

Is Lindt & Sprüngli a Swiss company?

Yes. Lindt & Sprüngli is headquartered in Kilchberg, Switzerland and was founded in 1845.

Who owns Lindt & Sprüngli?

Lindt & Sprüngli is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as LISN on the SIX.

What was Lindt & Sprüngli's most recent acquisition?

The most recent completed acquisition recorded here is Russell Stover and Whitman's on 8 September 2014.

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.

  1. [1] Integrated Annual Report 2025 — Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG, Annual report, published 9 March 2026; retrieved 28 September 2026.
  2. [2] Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprungli AG - the history of Lindt & Sprungli — Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprungli AG, Official document; retrieved 16 September 2026.
  3. [3] Lindt & Sprungli Annual Report 2014, note 32 - business combinations (Internet Archive capture) — Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprungli AG, Annual report; retrieved 16 September 2026.

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