Ebro Foods
Madrid-listed food group focused on rice and pasta, with brands including Tilda, Riviana, Garofalo and Bertagni. It reported 2025 turnover of €3,013.6 million and net profit of €214.8 million.
Industry: Rice, pasta and sauces | Location: Madrid, Spain | Founded: 1998
About Ebro Foods
Ebro Foods, S.A. is a Madrid-based food company whose business is rice and pasta. Its website calls it the first food company in Spain, with a global leadership position in rice and in premium and fresh pasta and more than 80 brands. Wikipedia lists its shares on the Bolsa de Madrid under the ticker EBRO.
Ebro's website dates the start of its transformation to 2000. Just Food reported that it was formed in 2000 by merging the sugar cooperative Azucarera Ebro Agrícolas with the dairy group Puleva, while Wikipedia gives 11 May 1998 as its founding date. Antonio Hernández Callejas began at the rice company Arrocerías Herba in 1979, joined Ebro's board in 2002 and has been executive chairman since 2005.
Ebro reports a rice division, with 2025 turnover of €2,326 million, and a pasta division with €690.3 million. Its 2026 results name Herba, Tilda, Riviana, Garofalo, Lustucru and Bertagni among its businesses. Its website names Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar among its markets, and in its first-half 2026 results Ebro said Tilda expanded its premium position in the Middle East.
Just Food reports that Ebro bought Riviana Foods of the United States in 2004 and New World Pasta in 2006, sold its sugar business in 2008 and agreed in March 2010 to sell its dairy business to Lactalis for €630 million. Wikipedia reports the 2019 purchase of Tilda. On 1 July 2026 Ebro completed the purchase of a plant in Saint Charles, Missouri, for an initial €40 million, for its Bertagni fresh pasta business.
For 2025 Ebro reported turnover of €3,013.6 million, down 4 percent, adjusted EBITDA of €420.6 million and net profit of €214.8 million, up 3.4 percent. Its board lists significant shareholders including Corporación Financiera Alba, Sociedad Anónima Damm and the state holding SEPI through Alimentos y Aceites.
In the first half of 2026 net profit rose 7.1 percent to €103.9 million on turnover of €1,476.3 million, down 3.7 percent. A TechScoop article of August 2026 names it among the paying customers of Mitti Labs.
Leadership
- Antonio Hernández Callejas, Executive Chairman
- Demetrio Carceller Arce, Vice Chairman
- Mercedes Costa García, Lead Independent Director
- Félix Hernández Callejas, Director; General Manager of Herba Ricemills
- Blanca Hernández Rodríguez, Director
- Belén Barreiro Pérez-Pardo, Independent Director
- Javier Fernández Alonso, Director