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Utz Brands: brands it owns and its ownership tree

Utz Brands (NYSE: UTZ) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Hanover, Pennsylvania, United States that owns 3 consumer brands and makes and sells 1 consumer brand under licence without owning the name, and has 3 recorded transactions.[1][2]

Utz was founded in 1921 in a Pennsylvania summer kitchen, where a couple made fifty pounds of crisps a day. It stayed family-owned for nearly a century before listing in 2020, and it has since bought several regional American snack brands with strong local followings.

Company facts

Legal name
Utz Brands, Inc.
Type
publicly listed company · see all publicly listed company owners
Headquarters
🇺🇸 Hanover, Pennsylvania, United States
Founded
1921
Tickers
NYSE: UTZ
Revenue
$1.44 billion (2025)[2]
SEC CIK
0001739566
Website
www.utzsnacks.com
Last verified
· 5 sources

What Utz Brands's annual report says about its business

Read from Utz Brands's latest annual filing[1]. Each line gives the sentence the filing uses, copied word for word.

Acquisitions and disposals named in the filing

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Utz Brands financial history

Headline figures from Utz Brands's annual reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, in USD as reported, fiscal years ending 2019–2025.

Fiscal year endedRevenueOperating incomeOperating marginNet incomeTotal assetsLong-term debtFiling
$1.44bn $19.5m 1.4% $800,000 $2.79bn $818.2m 10-K
$1.41bn $58.9m 4.2% $15.9m $2.72bn $752.5m 10-K
$1.44bn $16m 1.1% $-24,900,000 $2.75bn $878.5m 10-K
$1.41bn $5.34m 0.4% $-392,000 $2.84bn $893.3m 10-K
$1.18bn $10.6m 0.9% $20.6m $2.72bn $830.5m 10-K
— $-998,232 — $7.97m $451.7m — 10-K

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 Utz Brands

Holders of more than 5% of the voting shares, as listed in Utz Brands's proxy statement filed 12 March 2026. Shareholdings change daily; this is the position the filing reports.

HolderSharesShare of class
Ameriprise Financial, Inc.5,333,1716.03%
JP MORGAN CHASE & CO.5,274,7215.96%
BlackRock, Inc.4,998,7305.65%

Everything Utz Brands owns

2026

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

Everything Utz Brands owns Tree of 3 brands under Utz Brands. Utz Brands Boulder Canyon Utz Zapp's

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Brand portfolio by category

Food (3)

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Minority stakes, joint ventures and licences

Acquisitions by Utz Brands

Acquisition announced

Intersnack acquires Utz Brands, Utz, On The Border, Zapp's and Boulder Canyon

Intersnack Group of Düsseldorf agreed to take Utz Brands private for $14.25 a share in cash, an enterprise value of about $2.9 billion. After closing, Utz would be owned 50 per cent by entities of the Rice and Lissette families, descendants of its founders, and 50 per cent by Intersnack, whose own brands include Chio, Hula Hoops, McCoy's, Tyrrells and Tayto. The family would stay as half-owner rather than sell out.

Value
$2.9bn
Seller
public shareholders
Regulatory
None recorded
Acquisition closed

Utz Brands acquires Boulder Canyon

Utz acquired Inventure Foods for about $165 million, bringing Boulder Canyon into the group. Boulder Canyon cooks its crisps in avocado and olive oil rather than conventional vegetable oil, which costs considerably more and is why it sits at a premium price in natural grocery.

Value
$165m
Seller
—
Regulatory
None recorded
Acquisition closed

Utz Brands acquires Zapp's

Utz acquired Zapp's, a Louisiana kettle crisp maker founded in 1985 by a former oil driller, known for Cajun flavours including Voodoo and Spicy Cajun Crawtator. The price was not disclosed and only the year is documented here.

Value
Undisclosed
Seller
—
Regulatory
None recorded

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Utz Brands 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)
5299009BHBU2NH5HRN16
Registered name
UTZ BRANDS, INC. (US)
Registration status
Issued · record updated 14 August 2026
Parent
None named: it reports that no person or entity controls it.
Retrieved
· GLEIF record (JSON)

Utz Brands SEC filings

The documents behind the figures on this page, as listed in the SEC's EDGAR index. Each links to the filing itself.

Annual reports

Proxy statements

Recent current and quarterly reports

FiledFormWhat it declares
10-QQuarterly report
8-KResults of operations and financial condition
8-KEntry into a material agreement; Change to articles or bylaws
8-KOther events
8-KDeparture or appointment of directors or officers; Regulation FD disclosure
10-QQuarterly report
8-KResults of operations and financial condition; Regulation FD disclosure
8-KResults of a shareholder vote
8-KRegulation FD disclosure
8-KResults of operations and financial condition; Regulation FD disclosure; Other events
8-KResults of operations and financial condition
8-KResults of operations and financial condition; Regulation FD disclosure
8-KResults of operations and financial condition; Regulation FD disclosure
10-QQuarterly report

Frequently asked questions

What brands does Utz Brands own?

Utz Brands owns 3 consumer brands tracked here, including Utz, Zapp's and Boulder Canyon.

Is Utz Brands an American company?

Yes. Utz Brands is headquartered in Hanover, Pennsylvania, United States and was founded in 1921.

Who owns Utz Brands?

Utz Brands is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as UTZ on the NYSE.

What was Utz Brands' most recent acquisition?

The most recent completed acquisition recorded here is Boulder Canyon on 14 December 2017.

Sources (5) & 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] Utz Brands, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-12 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 12 February 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
  2. [2] Utz Brands, Inc.: Form 10-K for the year ended 2025-12-28 (revenue) — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 12 February 2026; retrieved 4 October 2026.
  3. [3] Utz Quality Foods completes acquisition of Inventure Foods — Utz Brands, Inc., Official press release, published 14 December 2017; retrieved 16 September 2026. This link no longer opens the document.
  4. [4] Utz Brands - company history and acquisitions — Utz Brands, Inc., Official document; retrieved 16 September 2026. This link no longer opens the document.
  5. [5] Utz Brands, Inc. Form 8-K Exhibit 99.1 - agreement with Intersnack Group — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 8-K, published 21 July 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.

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