B&G Foods, Inc.

What does B&G stand for?
B&G stands for Bloch and Guggenheimer, the families that founded the original pickle business in Manhattan in 1889. The brand still appears on pickles, peppers, and condiments sold nationally.

Is B&G Foods publicly traded?
Yes. B&G Foods trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker BGS and is broadly held by institutional and retail investors with no controlling shareholder.

Does B&G still own Green Giant?
B&G has exited essentially all Green Giant operations. It sold the US canned vegetable business to Seneca Foods in November 2023, the Canadian rights to Nortera Foods in October 2025, and the US frozen business to Seneca Foods in March 2026.

What did B&G acquire in the Del Monte bankruptcy?
In March 2026, B&G acquired the College Inn and Kitchen Basics broth and stock brands from Del Monte Foods' Chapter 11 sale, adding a soup and broth business to its meals portfolio.

Where is B&G Foods headquartered?
The company is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, with manufacturing and distribution facilities across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

What was B&G Foods' revenue in 2025?
For fiscal year 2025, B&G reported net sales of $1,828.7 million, down 5.4 percent from the prior year, and adjusted EBITDA of $272.2 million.

The company's origins reach back to 1889, when the Bloch and Guggenheimer families founded a pickle business in Manhattan. Bloch & Guggenheimer, or B&G, grew into a New York staple known for pickles, peppers, and condiments sold from barrels and later in jars under the B&G brand.

The modern corporate entity took shape in the mid-1990s. A management-led buyout created a platform for acquiring shelf-stable brands that large food conglomerates no longer wanted to prioritize. B&G Foods went public on the NYSE in 2004 and spent the next two decades buying brands.

Notable acquisitions include Ortega Mexican foods from Nestle in 2003, Cream of Wheat and Cream of Rice from Kraft in 2007, and a transformative 2015 purchase of the Green Giant frozen and canned vegetable business and the Le Sueur brand from General Mills for approximately $765 million. The Green Giant deal was the largest in company history and pushed B&G into frozen foods at scale.

Other significant deals brought Crisco from Smucker's, the spices portfolio of ACH Food Companies including Spice Islands, Durkee, Weber, Tone's, and Dash, and Back to Nature from a Brynwood Partners portfolio. At its peak, the portfolio held more than 50 brands.

From 2023 onward, the strategy reversed toward deleveraging. B&G sold the Green Giant US canned vegetable business to Seneca Foods in November 2023. A February 2025 strategic review produced a series of exits: Don Pepino and Sclafani tomato brands in May 2025, the Le Sueur US canned vegetable business to McCall Farms in August 2025, the Green Giant and Le Sueur Canadian rights to Nortera Foods in October 2025, and finally the Green Giant US frozen business to Seneca Foods in March 2026. CEO Casey Keller described Green Giant as "not the right fit" as the company refocused on its spices and shelf-stable core.

The same bankruptcy process that ended Del Monte Foods gave B&G its counterweight acquisition: in March 2026 it bought the College Inn and Kitchen Basics broth and stock brands, adding a category where it saw better margins and strategic fit than canned vegetables.

B&G publishes corporate responsibility disclosures covering food safety, sustainable sourcing, and environmental metrics across its plants. Its operations fall under FDA food safety regulation and its spice sourcing under international agricultural supply chain standards.

The company does not hold B Corp certification, and its sustainability program is conventional for a mid-cap food processor: packaging reduction targets, energy efficiency at plants, and responsible sourcing statements for key commodities. There is no independent certification such as RSPO or Fair Trade attached to its flagship brands.

B&G's public scrutiny has been financial rather than scandal-driven. Critics have long argued the company's dividend-first capital allocation left too little for brand reinvestment and debt service, a tension that came to a head with the 2025 strategic review and dividend reduction.

On the product side, the company has managed the routine recall exposure of any large food manufacturer, including periodic voluntary recalls for allergen labeling and foreign material risk across its plants, none of which reached major scale. The Green Giant divestitures drew some criticism for shrinking the company toward a spices-and-meals business while leaving questions about the residual value of the remaining portfolio.