Seneca Foods Corporation

What does Seneca Foods make?
Seneca packs canned and frozen vegetables, fruit products, and snack items. Canned vegetables are 83 percent of its food packaging sales. Most volume goes to private label and foodservice customers, with the rest under brands including Green Giant, Libby's (licensed), Seneca, and Aunt Nellie's.

Is Seneca Foods publicly traded?
Yes. The company trades on Nasdaq under two tickers: SENEA for Class A shares and SENEB for Class B shares. Class B shares carry most of the voting power, and a large block is held by the company's own benefit plans.

Who owns the Green Giant brand now?
In the United States, Seneca Foods owns the Green Giant canned and frozen vegetable businesses, acquired from B&G Foods in November 2023 and March 2026 respectively. Nortera Foods holds the Canadian rights, and Bonduelle licenses the brand in Europe.

Where is Seneca Foods headquartered?
The company is headquartered at 350 WillowBrook Office Park in Fairport, New York, near Rochester. Its 26 plants are spread across New York, Michigan, Oregon, Wisconsin, Washington, Idaho, Illinois, and Minnesota.

What was Seneca Foods' revenue?
For fiscal year 2025, ended March 31, 2025, Seneca reported net sales of $1,578.9 million, operating income of $77.8 million, and net earnings of $41.2 million.

Does Seneca own Libby's?
No. Seneca produces and sells Libby's canned vegetables under a trademark license from Libby's Brand Holding, a Geneva-based company. The license dates to 1982 and runs to 2081. Libby's trademark ownership itself sits outside Seneca.

Arthur S. Wolcott founded the Seneca Grape Juice Company in Dundee, New York in 1949, building the business on grape juice production from Finger Lakes vineyards. The company took the name Seneca Foods Corporation in the 1960s as it diversified into canned fruits and vegetables, and it listed publicly to fund acquisition-led growth.

Through the 1970s and 1980s, Seneca assembled a network of canneries across the principal US growing regions. A defining commercial relationship began in March 1982, when Seneca secured a trademark license for Libby's canned vegetables, a brand then controlled by Nestle. That license, renewed on long cycles, remains in place today and runs through 2081.

In the late 1990s, Seneca exited its original juice business, selling its fruit juice assets to Northland Cranberries in 1998 and its applesauce and industrial flavorings operations to TreeTop in 1999. The divestments completed a transformation from juice company to a pure-play fruit and vegetable packer.

The 2000s brought scale. Seneca acquired Signature Fruit Company and other canning assets, consolidating its position in private label and branded canned vegetables. It also expanded into frozen vegetables, snack products through its marionberry and chip lines, and contract packaging for other food companies.

In November 2023, Seneca acquired the Green Giant US canned vegetable business from B&G Foods, bringing one of the most recognizable names in the canned aisle under its control. In October 2025, B&G sold the Green Giant and Le Sueur Canadian rights to Nortera Foods, and in March 2026 Seneca completed the set by acquiring the Green Giant US frozen vegetable business from B&G. The transactions gave Seneca unified control of the Green Giant brand across canned and frozen categories in the United States, while Bonduelle continues to license the brand in Europe.

In fiscal 2026, the company integrated the Green Giant frozen business and continued to manage elevated input costs and tariff exposure on steel for its can manufacturing operations.

Seneca's operations are anchored in American agriculture. The company sources from more than 1,100 US farms and runs its own seed production and farming operations, giving it direct influence over agricultural inputs. All of its roughly 2,885 year-round employees and 4,010 seasonal harvest workers are located in the United States.

The company operates within FDA and USDA food safety regulations and the seasonal employment framework that governs agricultural processing labor. Canned vegetables are among the lowest-food-waste packaged formats because produce is processed within hours of harvest, and Seneca's vertical integration into can manufacturing reduces packaging supply chain risk.

Seneca does not hold consumer-facing certifications such as B Corp status. Its sustainability posture is that of a mid-cap regional processor: incremental efficiency programs in water use, can lightweighting, and agricultural yield rather than headline ESG commitments.

Seneca has maintained a comparatively clean public record. The principal scrutiny attached to the company is structural rather than scandal-driven. Its dual-class share structure and the concentration of Class B voting stock in company benefit plans have periodically drawn governance criticism from shareholders seeking more board accountability.

Like all US canned food producers, the company operates under ongoing FDA oversight for food safety and labeling, and under OSHA and state labor rules for its large seasonal workforce. There is no record of major product recalls or federal enforcement actions at scale in recent years. Elevated input costs, tariffs on imported steel for cans, and crop risk remain the chief pressures investors watch rather than regulatory exposure.