Who owns A Café La?
A Café La is owned by Binggrae (South Korea, KRX: 005180).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Binggrae 2026 Sustainability Report, Binggrae Co., Ltd. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Binggrae Co., Ltd. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇰🇷 South Korea, Namyangju
- Origin
- 🇰🇷 South Korea
- Founded
- 2008
- Category
- Beverages › Soft drinks › Ready-to-drink tea & coffee
- Parent ticker
- KRX: 005180
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About A Café La
A Café La is Binggrae's ready-to-drink coffee brand, released in May 2008, which the company describes as coffee made by Binggrae using extraction methods tailored to selected beans. The line includes A Café La Size Up, a latte with less sugar and a decaffeinated Americano, and its packaging received an excellent grade for recyclability, according to Binggrae's sustainability report.
Ownership timeline of A Café La
Where A Café La sits in Binggrae
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Binggrae
Binggrae controls 8 brands on Brandtree.
- Banana-Flavored Milk (1974)
- Bravo Cone
- Crab Chips (1986)
- Melona (1992)
- Samanco (1991)
- THE:Danbaek (2021)
- Together (1974)
Other brands in ready-to-drink tea & coffee, and who owns them
The 40 brands in ready-to-drink tea & coffee on Brandtree belong to 31 owners. The largest is Coca-Cola, with 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Ayataka | Coca-Cola | 🇺🇸 United States |
| East Leaf | Nongfu Spring | 🇨🇳 China |
| Cordia | Ghanim International | 🇧🇳 Brunei |
| Barista Rules | Maeil Dairies | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Hatsu | Postobón | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
| VITA | Vitasoy | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong |
| Justea | Yeo's | 🇸🇬 Singapore |
| Free Tea | AJE | 🇵🇪 Peru |
About the owner: Binggrae
Binggrae is a publicly listed company headquartered in Namyangju, South Korea, founded in 1967. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control, and it is listed as KRX: 005180.
Binggrae was established on 13 September 1967 as Daeil Yanghang, took the Binggrae name in 1982 and listed on the Korean stock exchange in 1978. It makes flavoured milk, ice cream, yogurt, coffee drinks and snacks from five plants in Korea and has sales subsidiaries in China, the United States, Vietnam and Australia; consolidated sales were about 1.49 trillion won in 2025. It bought Haitai Ice Cream in October 2020 and absorbed it in a small-scale merger in April 2026.
🇰🇷 A Café La and other South Korean brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 237 brands that began in South Korea. 12 of them (5%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; A Café La is not one of them.
- 17 Cha — Namyang Dairy 🇰🇷
- Barista Rules — Maeil Dairies 🇰🇷
- Boseong Green Tea — Dongwon Industries 🇰🇷
- Cass — AB InBev 🇧🇪
- Chamisul — HiteJinro 🇰🇷
- Chum Churum Soonhari — Lotte Chilsung 🇰🇷
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of A Café La?
The parent company of A Café La is Binggrae, a publicly listed company headquartered in South Korea.
Is A Café La South Korean?
Yes. A Café La originated in South Korea in 2008 and its owner, Binggrae, is also headquartered in South Korea.
Is A Café La still owned by Binggrae?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, A Café La is still owned by Binggrae. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Binggrae 2026 Sustainability Report — Binggrae Co., Ltd., Official document; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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