Butterfinger is owned by Ferrero (Italy), which acquired the brand on 31 March 2018 from Nestlé.[1][1] Before Ferrero, Butterfinger was owned by Nestlé from 1990 to 2018.[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Butterfinger is an American candy bar created in 1923, with a flaky peanut butter core in chocolate, and named through a public competition. Ferrero bought Nestlé's United States confectionery business including Butterfinger in 2018 and reformulated the recipe, which drew complaints from long-standing buyers.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
Open the full Ferrero ownership tree →
Nestlé sold its United States confectionery business, including Butterfinger, Baby Ruth, Crunch and around twenty other brands, to Ferrero. Nestlé kept its confectionery businesses in every other market.
No tagged news items yet. Headlines are added nightly from public feeds; only titles and links are stored.
Headlines link to the original publisher. Brandtree does not reproduce article text.
The parent company of Butterfinger is Ferrero, a family-owned company headquartered in Italy.
Butterfinger originated in the United States in 1923, but it is owned today by Ferrero, which is headquartered in Italy. So Butterfinger is an American-origin brand under Italian ownership.
Ferrero completed its acquisition of Butterfinger on 31 March 2018, after announcing the deal on 16 January 2018.
Before Ferrero, Butterfinger was owned by Nestlé from 1990 until 2018.
Yes. As of 6 September 2026, Butterfinger is still owned by Ferrero. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
Report a correction Opens a pre-filled GitHub issue. See our corrections policy.