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McCormick & Company supplies the spices, seasonings and sauces people use in cooking and eating. Its Consumer business brings in most of its revenue, selling products under brands such as McCormick, French’s and Frank’s RedHot through retailers and online channels. Retailers buy the products for resale to consumers; Walmart is a major customer.
The other substantial business, Flavor Solutions, develops and supplies seasoning blends and other flavor ingredients that food and beverage manufacturers put into their products and foodservice businesses use in menu items. These customers buy directly or through distributors. PepsiCo is a major customer, and this business relies on a small group of large buyers for much of its sales.
The business depends on consumers continuing to choose its brands and on access to agricultural ingredients such as pepper, garlic and herbs. When ingredient costs rise, McCormick uses purchasing arrangements, cost savings and price increases, but higher prices can reduce demand. Food-safety, ingredient and labeling rules also govern how it makes and sells its products.
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Walmart, missing from this list, is also worth watching: its purchases accounted for approximately 12% of McCormick’s consolidated sales in each of 2025, 2024 and 2023.
Kraft Heinz competes for condiment and sauce shoppers with McCormick: its Heinz products directly rival French’s and McCormick’s other condiment brands.
McCormick depends on PepsiCo’s purchases of flavor ingredients: this Flavor Solutions customer accounted for approximately 12% of McCormick’s consolidated sales in 2025. PepsiCo’s sales of convenient foods to retailers and distributors are worth watching for clues to demand from this major customer.
Campbell’s competes with McCormick for shoppers buying sauces and products to flavor meals. Its Pace, Prego, Rao’s and dinner sauces are the products to watch for competition with McCormick’s retail sauces and seasonings.
Conagra competes with McCormick for grocery shoppers buying sauces and mustard: Hunt’s sauces rival McCormick’s sauces, while Gulden’s mustard competes with French’s.
General Mills and McCormick face overlapping demand and pricing pressures from shoppers preparing meals at home, through meal kits and ingredients versus cooking seasonings and sauces. Watch whether General Mills can raise prices on these meal products without losing demand as ingredient costs rise—the same trade-off matters for McCormick.
McCormick buys custom containers from Silgan Holdings, which lists McCormick among that business’s largest customers. Silgan’s custom-container sales are the relevant line to watch for this packaging relationship, rather than its closures or metal-container businesses.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
For McCormick, the Fed’s decision on the cost of borrowing can change what it pays on variable-rate debt and commercial paper used to fund operations and working capital, affecting earnings.
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If it comes in above expectations
If rates rise more than expected, interest on McCormick’s variable-rate debt and new or refinanced commercial paper may increase, leaving less earnings after interest costs.
If it comes in below expectations
If rates rise less than expected or fall, interest costs on McCormick’s variable-rate debt and new or refinanced commercial paper may be lower, leaving more earnings after interest costs.
Silgan Holdings Inc earningsSLGN
Silgan supplies custom containers to McCormick, and its report will show whether demand for the packaging McCormick buys is holding up.
Focus on Silgan’s custom-container sales, not its metal-container or closures businesses. Steady sales would suggest customers including McCormick continue to need this packaging; weaker sales would point to softer orders across that business, but would not by itself establish a change in McCormick’s own sales.
The Kraft Heinz Company earningsKHC
Kraft Heinz competes with McCormick’s French’s and other condiment brands, and its report will show whether shoppers are still buying in that shared aisle.
Look for whether Kraft Heinz’s condiment sales hold up, and read that alongside its overall sales. Firm condiment sales would suggest shoppers are still buying in this category, easing demand concerns for McCormick; weakness in condiments would signal pressure in the aisle they share, even if other businesses support Kraft Heinz’s total sales.
General Mills, Inc. earningsGIS
General Mills’ report will show whether shoppers keep buying its meal products as prices rise, a trade-off McCormick faces when pricing its seasonings and sauces.
Read General Mills’ price changes alongside sales volume. Higher prices with volume holding would suggest shoppers are accepting increases, giving McCormick more room to pass through ingredient costs; higher prices with falling volume would warn that increases can drive customers away, forcing McCormick to weigh cost recovery against weaker sales and mix.
