Who makes Kirkland Signature Organic Peanut Butter, Creamy, 28 oz, 2-count?
As of July 11, 2026, the manufacturer of Kirkland Signature Organic Peanut Butter, Creamy, 28 oz, 2-count is Hampton Farms (Severn Peanut Co.), per on-label, first-party, or executive statement evidence.
The common claim
What most answers say — and what the evidence supports
Most top-ranking answers say Costco never discloses who makes Kirkland peanut butter, and no single big-name guess dominates the results. The documented trail is better than that: the 2012 Sunland Inc. recall notice named both Kirkland natural and organic peanut butter as products of Sunland's New Mexico plant (the recall bankrupted that co-packer), and for the modern organic jar Costco's own catalog data names Hampton Farms (Severn Peanut Co.), and the return coverage independently tied the supply gap to Hampton Farms — the modern jar's attribution is confirmed. Costco pulled the Kirkland jar in late 2025 — the shelf slot went to Hampton Farms' own Naturally More brand — then returned it by July 2026, a roughly nine-month gap that press coverage attributes to a Valencia-peanut supply shortfall at Hampton Farms.
Evidence & sources
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Tier 4
Costco's own product data embedded in the listing names the manufacturer in its mfName field: 'HAMPTON FARMS' on the parent record and 'SEVERN PEANUT CO' on the child item (SKU 555000, UPC 096619555017) — Hampton Farms is the retail brand of Severn Peanut Co. of Severn, NC. Costco exposes this same field publicly as a 'manufacturername' search facet. Field reliability was cross-checked against two known ground truths: the Kirkland diapers listing shows mfName 'FIRST QUALITY CONSUMER PR' (snapshot 2026-04-18, matching the Bloomberg-confirmed First Quality switch) and the Kirkland AA batteries listing shows 'DURACELL DISTRIBUTING INC' (snapshot 2026-01-09, matching Costco's exec-confirmed Duracell attribution). Graded probable, not confirmed: this is machine-readable catalog data naming a supplier of record, and no press report or regulatory record independently names Hampton Farms for the Kirkland jar.
Tier 4
Documents that 'The Kirkland Signature Organic Creamy Peanut Butter is no longer available at Costco' and that 'Costco is instead offering the Naturally More Organic Peanut Butter made by Hampton Farms in North Carolina.' Indirect corroboration only: the company named in Costco's catalog data for the Kirkland jar took over the shelf slot under its own brand; the article does not itself name the Kirkland jar's maker.
Tier 4
Documents the return: the Kirkland Signature organic creamy peanut butter is back in warehouses and on Costco.com ($11.69 for the 2×28 oz pack) as of July 2026, and attributes the roughly nine-month gap that began around September 2025 to a Valencia-peanut supply issue at Hampton Farms — press tying Hampton Farms to the Kirkland jar in the context of the outage. Originally held under an independence caveat (the supply-story naming might derive from the same catalog-data chain); ruled genuinely independent at final review (2026-07-30, DECISIONS) — this corroboration is what promotes the record to confirmed.
Manufacturer history
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| Period | Manufacturer | What the record says | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Present | Hampton Farms (Severn Peanut Co.)Current | Current attribution — confirmed. See the evidence and fact sentence above. | Evidence ↑ |
| … → 2012 | Sunland, Inc. | Sunland's Portales, New Mexico peanut butter plant made Kirkland natural and organic peanut butter until the September 2012 Salmonella recall: the expanded recall notice of October 4, 2012 — posted on costco.com — lists 'Kirkland Natural Peanut Butter Creamy' and 'Kirkland Organic Creamy Peanut Butter' among the products manufactured in the plant. The FDA suspended Sunland's food-facility registration on November 26, 2012 (its first-ever use of that 2011 food-safety-law power); Sunland briefly resumed operations in May 2013, then filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy in October 2013. No public source documents who made Kirkland peanut butter between Sunland's collapse and the Hampton Farms-era listing data. | Sunland, Inc. (recall notice posted by Costco Wholesale) ↗ |
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