Founded in 1936 by Prudencio Unanue Ortiz and Carolina Casal, Spanish immigrants who opened a small grocery in Lower Manhattan selling imported Spanish products to the city's Hispanic community. Goya became the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the United States. The tinned fish range, including sardines, mackerel, tuna, and clams, is a component of a vast portfolio of Latin American pantry products distributed nationally across the US, Caribbean, and Latin America.