Key facts
- Product type
- Food & beverage
- Owner
- Unilever (since 2000 )
- Country
- Germany
- Introduced
- 1838 ; 188 years ago ( 1838 ) in Heilbronn , Germany
- Related brands
- Continental (Australia), Royco (Indonesia and Kenya)
- Markets
- Worldwide
- Previous owners
- Carl Heinrich Theodor Knorr , Bestfoods Corporation
- Ambassador
- Carl Heinrich Knorr
- Website
- knorr .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- business
- Named after
- Carl Heinrich Theodor Knorr
- Country
- Germany
- Founded by
- Carl Heinrich Theodor Knorr
- Headquarters
- Heilbronn
- Owned by
- Maizena
- Parent organization
- Unilever
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Official website
- www.knorr.com
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- Commons category
- Knorr
- inception
- 1838-01-01
- location of formation
- Heilbronn
- social media followers
- 6680
- native label
- Knorr
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Encyclopedic overview
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Knorr (/nɔːr/; German: [knɔʁ]) is a German food and beverage trademark based in Heilbronn, Germany, founded in 1838 and owned by the British-Dutch corporation Unilever since 2000, who acquired Knorr's original parent company Best Foods, with the exception of Japan, where it is made under license by Ajinomoto. It produces dehydrated soup and meal mixes, bouillon cubes and condiments.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Knorr” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.