McCormick & Company: Key Facts
- FY2025 net sales: $6.8403B.
- FY2025 net income: $789.4M.
- Employees: approximately 14,100 full-time employees.
- Leadership: CEO Brendan M. Foley.
- Status: public, NYSE: MKC.
- Headquarters: Hunt Valley, Maryland.
How McCormick Makes Money
McCormick earns revenue from branded spices, herbs, seasoning mixes, extracts, condiments, hot sauces, foodservice products, and custom flavor solutions. The company reports Consumer and Flavor Solutions segments, which lets it serve households, retailers, restaurants, and packaged-food manufacturers.
Why McCormick Matters
McCormick combines visible consumer brands with behind-the-scenes flavor expertise. That mix gives the company shelf presence in grocery stores and sticky B2B relationships with food companies that need taste consistency, innovation, and supply reliability.
Biggest Risk
The main risk is that inflation, crop volatility, private-label pressure, consumer trade-down, or flavor-house competition weakens volumes and margins in categories that are useful but mature.