Hormel Foods HRL · USD
Consumer Staples · Food Products · US listing · 🇺🇸 United States
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About Hormel Foods
From its filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission
Hormel Foods is based in Austin, Minnesota and is incorporated in Delaware. Its shares trade on NYSE under the ticker HRL. It is a member of the S&P 500. The SEC classifies its business as meat packing plants. In the fiscal year to 26 October 2025, it reported revenue of $12.11bn and net income of $478.2m. At that date it held total assets of $13.39bn and shareholders' equity of $7.90bn.
Hormel Foods Corporation, a Delaware corporation, was founded by George A. Hormel in 1891 in Austin, Minnesota, as Geo. A. Hormel & Company. The Company originated as a processor of meat and food products and continues in this line of business today. The Company has expanded its product portfolio through organic growth and acquisitions to become a global branded food company with more than $12 billion in annual revenue. The Company is built on a foundation of innovation and integrity and a commitment to delivering high-quality, trusted food products across a diverse portfolio of brands and product solutions including Planters®, SPAM®, Jennie-O®, Skippy®, Applegate®, Wholly®, Hormel® Black Label®, Fontanini®, Bacon1®, Hormel® pepperoni, and more than 30 other beloved brands. The Company is a member of the S&P 500 Index and the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats.
The Company currently operates with the following three reportable segments: Retail, Foodservice, and International.
The Retail segment consists primarily of the processing, marketing, and sale of food products sold predominantly in retail channels, including grocery stores, mass merchandisers, club stores, natural food chains, drug, dollar and discount chains, and e-commerce providers in the United States (U.S.). This segment also includes the results from the Company’s MegaMex Foods, LLC (MegaMex Foods) joint venture.
Quoted from its 10-K, filed 5 Dec 2025. Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗
Company facts
- Sector
- Consumer Staples
- Industry
- Food Products
- Listed since
- 16 Jan 1990
- Employees
- 20,000
- Website
- hormelfoods.com ↗
- Head office
- 1 HORMEL PL, AUSTIN, MN, 55912-3680
- Incorporated in
- DE
- Classification
- Meat Packing Plants
- Filer status
- Large accelerated filer
Leadership
Pay as last reported
- Mr. James SneeChairman of the Board, since 2008$8.1m
- Mr. John GhingoPresident, Director, since 2024
- Mr. Jeffrey EttingerInterim Chief Executive Officer, Director, since 1998$242,005
- Ms. Jacinth SmileyChief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President$2.3m
- Mr. Pierre LillySenior Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer
- Ms. Colleen BatchelerSenior Vice President - External Affairs, General Counsel$1.2m
- Ms. Katherine Losness-LarsonSenior Vice President - Human Resources
- Ms. Mary ClarkSenior Vice President, Chief Communications Officer
- Mr. Paul KuehnemanVice President, Controller
- Ms. Christie CrouchVice President of Marketing - Snacking and Entertaining
- Mr. Paul PeilVice President of Marketing - Fresh and Ready Meats
- Mr. Mike ClausmanVice President, Deputy General Counsel, Assistant Secretary
Environmental, social and governance
Scores out of 100, from our data supplier
- Overall
- 61
- Environment
- 58
- Social
- 89
- Governance
- 36
- Direct emissions (scope 1)
- 625,338 t
- Energy emissions (scope 2)
- 437,394 t
- Value chain emissions (scope 3)
- 12,492,387 t
- Women in the workforce
- 39%
- Carbon reduction policy
- Yes
- Human rights policy
- Yes
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