# Who owns what?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-owns-what/67598>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 5, 2001, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-owns-what/67598 "2001-06-05T00:10:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![wbricks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f17d59/32.png) [@wbricks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wbricks)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-owns-what/67598/1 "2001-06-05T00:10:31Z")

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I’ve been looking for a site that has some sort of “corporate tree” of what products/companies are owned by what other companies. (e.g. Jell-O is owned by Kraft which is owned by Phillip Morris, Taco Bell is owned by TriCon Global Restaurants which is owned by PepsiCo.). I couldn’t find any sight that had such a tree. I understand it would be massive, but it would be interesting if it were limited to, say, the 10 largest corporate entities or only consumer goods. Anyone know where/how I can find this information?

If you were wondering, it all stems from a joke I told a friend that everything you buy is from Coca-Cola, Phillip Morris, or Disney 🙂

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2001, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-owns-what/67598/2 "2001-06-05T00:15:42Z")

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[Hoover’s Online](http://www.hoovers.com) has some good capsules available for free, most of which will give you parent company info. It’s not in a tree structure, though. 🙂 You’ll have to actually search for the company you’re looking for and read the capsule.

Hope this helps.