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Pinnacle Foods: brands it owns and its ownership tree

Pinnacle Foods is a publicly listed company headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, United States that is tracked here as an owner of consumer businesses, and has 1 recorded transaction.[1]

Pinnacle Foods assembled a portfolio of established American food brands including Birds Eye, Duncan Hines and Vlasic, largely under private equity ownership, before Conagra acquired it in 2018.

Status: merged

Company facts

Legal name
Pinnacle Foods Inc.
Type
publicly listed company · see all publicly listed company owners
Headquarters
🇺🇸 Parsippany, New Jersey, United States
Founded
2001
Last verified
· 1 sources

Divestitures and spin-offs by Pinnacle Foods

Brands Pinnacle Foods no longer owns

Pinnacle Foods controlled these 4 brands in the past. Each row shows when the ownership ended and who holds the brand now, so a page that once said Pinnacle Foods owned it still shows why it no longer does.

BrandOwned untilOwner today
Duncan Hines Oct 2018 Conagra Brands
Vlasic Oct 2018 Conagra Brands
Birds Eye (North America) Oct 2018 Conagra Brands
Udi's Oct 2018 Conagra Brands

Full ownership and deal history for Pinnacle Foods →

Pinnacle 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)
529900XD5P258XCPTJ59
Registered name
PINNACLE FOODS INC. (US)
Registration status
Lapsed · record updated 19 July 2021
Parent
None named: it reports that no person or entity controls it.
Retrieved
· GLEIF record (JSON)

Frequently asked questions

What brands does Pinnacle Foods own?

Pinnacle Foods is tracked as an owner of consumer businesses; see the ownership tree for its holdings.

Is Pinnacle Foods an American company?

Yes. Pinnacle Foods is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, United States and was founded in 2001.

Who owns Pinnacle Foods?

Pinnacle Foods is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders.

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. [1] Conagra Brands, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K; retrieved 16 September 2026.

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