The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. is an international food and personal-care company based in the United States. Its products include natural foods and organic personal-care items. Founded in 1993 as Hain Food Group, it changed its name to Hain Celestial Group after merging with Celestial Seasonings in 2000. It is publicly traded on the NASDAQ with brands that include Ella's Kitchen, Frank Cooper's, and Linda McCartney Foods.
History Hain Celestial Group was founded by Irwin D. Simon in 1993. It was originally called Hain Food Group when founded, making acquisitions of other companies that included Barricini Foods and Kineret. It went public on the NASDAQ in 1993.
The H. J. Heinz Company acquired 19.5% of the company in September 1999,Heinz to Purchase Additional Equity in Hain Celestial to Restore Investment Level to 19.5 Percent subsequently divested its holdings in the company in 2005. Hain purchased Celestial Seasonings in 2000 for a deal valued at approximately $390 million. It subsequently changed its name to Hain Celestial Group. In 2002, it restated prior years promotional allowances and other sales incentives of $16.8 million.
By 2012, Hain was the world's largest natural food company with $1.4 billion in revenue. By 2013, it owned approximately 50 brands and offered 5,000 products internationally.
In 2015, the company acquired the non-dairy company Mona Naturprodukte GmbH with its brand Joya.
Operations In June 2018, Hain Celestial announced that CEO Irwin Simon would step down. He was replaced by Mark Schiller who became the company's president and CEO until January 2023 when he was replaced by Wendy Davidson. The company moved its headquarters to Hoboken, New Jersey in 2023.
Products
Hain Celestial Group sells natural and organic foods as well as personal-care brands through retailers such as Whole Foods, Costco, Wal-Mart, and other mass-market grocery stores. Its food brands have included Celestial Seasonings, Terra vegetable chips, Earth's Best, Garden Veggie Snacks, ParmCrisps, and Thinster snacks.
Litigation In 2011, Hain Celestial Group was one of 25 companies named in a class-action lawsuit alleging false labeling of its personal care products under California law.Von Slomski v. The Hain Celestial Group truthinadvertising.org The company settled the lawsuit in 2015, paying $7.5 million in compensation with an additional $2.4 million worth of coupons to consumers.
In February 2021, Hain Celestial Group was named in a series of consumer class-action lawsuits alleging that its Earth's Best baby food products contained unsafe or undisclosed levels of naturally occurring heavy metals, including lead, arsenic, cadmium, and mercury. The cases were subsequently transferred and consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Plaintiffs alleged violations of state consumer-protection laws and other claims related to the alleged failure to disclose the presence of heavy metals in the baby food. In 2026, the court excluded the plaintiffs' general-causation experts in February, and Hain filed a motion for summary judgment in May.
List of brands
Alba Botanica Avalon Organics Celestial Seasonings Clarks (a sweetener brand) Cully & Sully Earth's Best Ella's Kitchen Frank Cooper's Garden of Eatin' Hartley's Imagine Foods JĀSÖN Natural Products Joya (European plant-based company) Lima Linda McCartney Foods Live Clean MaraNatha Natumi New Covent Garden Soup Co. Robertson's Rose's Garden Veggie Snacks Spectrum Sun-Pat Peanut Butter Terra Chips The Greek Gods Thinsters Walnut Acres Yorkshire Provender Yves Veggie Cuisine
See also
List of food companies
References
External links
List of brand names for Hain Celestial Group