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Who Owns Your Basket (preview)

Made In England: Brand Ownership Study

Who really owns your shopping basket?

We traced 84 everyday supermarket brands back to who actually owns them, where they're actually made, and found a genuinely English-made alternative for each one. Some of the results might surprise you.

84Brands tracked
14Owner countries
12Genuinely UK-owned
Explore the map ↓

Ownership, mapped

Every coloured country owns at least one brand on this list.

Hover a country to see which brands trace back there. Green means genuinely UK-owned, red means the parent company sits overseas, amber marks a brand mid-sale to a new foreign owner, and the striped UK is a mix of all three.

UK-owned
Foreign-owned
Mid-sale to a foreign buyer
UK (mixed)

The swap list

Find your brand. Find your English swap.

Search by brand or category. Every entry shows who owns it, where it's actually made, and a genuinely English-made alternative, several of which you can buy right now at Made In England.

Compiled August 2026 from public sources (company filings, trade press including The Grocer and FoodNavigator, and Wikipedia). Corporate ownership changes frequently, this is a reference point, not a live feed. Spotted something out of date? Get in touch via MadeInEngland.com.