Ownership profile
Who owns Mastronardi Produce (Sunset brand)?
Mastronardi Produce (which sells greenhouse produce under the SUNSET® brand) is a fourth-generation, family-owned Canadian private company with no private equity involvement identified; it has partnered on specific real-estate joint ventures with COFRA Holding AG (a Brenninkmeijer family holding group), but no PE firm holds an equity stake in the company itself.
Ownership profile
Mastronardi Produce (Sunset brand)
Mastronardi Produce Limited
Evidence (7)
Mastronardi Produce has been family-owned for over 70 years and describes itself as a fourth-generation owned company, with Paul Mastronardi serving as President and CEO.
https://www.sunsetgrown.com/mastronardi-produce-acquires-full-ownership-of-mastronardi-berryworld-north-america/The SUNSET® brand is owned and operated by Mastronardi Produce Limited, a Canadian corporation headquartered in Kingsville, Ontario, which is also the parent of the US subsidiary Mastronardi Produce-USA, Inc.
https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10184047/williams-v-mastronardi-produce-ltd/Mastronardi Produce and COFRA Holding AG (a privately held group owned by the Brenninkmeijer family, which includes a PE arm called Bregal) formed a real-estate joint venture to acquire and leaseback an AppHarvest greenhouse facility for $127 million; COFRA is a co-investor in the real estate transaction, not an equity holder in Mastronardi Produce itself.
https://www.davispolk.com/experience/mastronardi-produce-127-million-sale-leaseback-transactionMastronardi Produce-USA, Inc. is registered as a separate US legal entity (LEI: 549300C6TR2RHC445V57), confirming the corporate structure of a Canadian parent with a US operating subsidiary.
https://www.lei-lookup.com/record/549300C6TR2RHC445V57/Multiple independent industry and news sources consistently describe Mastronardi Produce as family-owned, with no change-of-control or PE acquisition reported.
https://www.ceagworld.com/greenhouse-produce/family-owned-mastronardi-produce-continues-its-legacy-of-cea-leadership/D&B lists Donald Mastronardi as the key principal of Mastronardi Produce Limited, consistent with continued family control.
https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.mastronardi_produce_limited.9197acf94906101dee6d7253f59ac02e.htmlNo SEC EDGAR filings, Form D filings, or PE portfolio pages linking a private equity firm to an ownership stake in Mastronardi Produce were found.
https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index?q=%22mastronardi+produce%22&dateRange=custom&startdt=2000-01-01&enddt=2026-09-12What's uncertain
- Mastronardi Produce is a private Canadian company with no mandatory public disclosure of its cap table. Family ownership is attested by the company itself and corroborated by multiple independent sources, but no audited shareholder register is publicly available.
- COFRA Holding AG (Brenninkmeijer family) is a confirmed co-investor in a 2022 sale-leaseback real estate joint venture with Mastronardi. COFRA's subsidiary Bregal is a PE fund, but no source ties Bregal or any other PE fund to an equity stake in Mastronardi Produce Ltd. itself. This has been treated as a real-estate investment, not a corporate ownership event.
- Mastronardi Produce won Canada's Best Managed Companies designation for 13 consecutive years, a program limited to Canadian-owned companies, further corroborating domestic family ownership.
- Ownership status was last confirmed by company press releases dated September 2024; no more recent changes have been reported as of the investigation date.