Who owns Amazon?
Amazon, a food brand from Colombia, is owned by Colombina (Colombia), which has owned the brand since 2013.[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Colombina S.A. — Informe Anual 2025. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Colombina S.A. reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇴 Colombia, Cali
- Origin
- 🇨🇴 Colombia
- Category
- Food › Condiments, sauces & seasonings › Sauces & ketchup
- Trademark registrant
- Colombina S.A. (USPTO)
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Amazon
Amazon is a hot sauce brand Colombina acquired in 2013 when it bought C.I. Comexa, a maker of chilli sauces. The company positions it as carrying the heritage of ají, the Colombian chilli, to the world, and has widened it into mayonnaise, barbecue, truffle and mustard sauces to reach buyers who are not after heat.
Trademark record for Amazon
The USPTO record for the Amazon mark lists Colombina S.A. as the owner of record (serial number 87046350). That name matches the owner named above.[2]
Ownership timeline of Amazon
Where Amazon sits in Colombina
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Colombina
Colombina controls 13 brands on Brandtree, 13 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in sauces & ketchup, and who owns them
The 95 brands in sauces & ketchup on Brandtree belong to 53 owners. The largest is Develey, with 6; Colombina has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bautz'ner | Develey | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Chungjungone | Daesang | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Haitian | Haitian | 🇨🇳 China |
| Chaochai | Sempio | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Búfalo | Grupo Herdez | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
| A.1. | Kraft Heinz | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Las Palmas | B&G Foods | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Erisco | Erisco Foods | 🇳🇬 Nigeria |
About the owner: Colombina
Colombina is a privately held company headquartered in Cali, Colombia, founded in 1927. Brandtree records 13 brands under its control.
Colombina is a Colombian food company founded in 1927 by Hernando Caicedo, a Valle del Cauca sugar planter who decided to add value to the output of his own mill by turning it into sweets. The tropical-fruit hard candies it launched in 1935 became popular enough to be known simply as colombinas. It is still run by the founder's descendants — César A. Caicedo has led it since 2002 and the board is dominated by Caicedo family members — and it now sells around $885 million a year across confectionery, biscuits, sauces, ice cream and canned fish in more than eighty countries. Two of the best-known names in its catalogue are not its own: Van Camp's and Café Buendía are distribution agreements, which it reports separately as represented products.
🇨🇴 Amazon and other Colombian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 108 brands that began in Colombia. 10 of them (9%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Amazon is not one of them.
- Alpina — Alpina 🇨🇴
- Baticrema — Quala 🇨🇴
- Crem Helado — Grupo Nutresa 🇨🇴
- Triunfo — CasaLuker 🇨🇴
- Agua Cristal — Postobón 🇨🇴
- Aguila — AB InBev 🇧🇪
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Amazon?
The parent company of Amazon is Colombina, a privately held company headquartered in Colombia.
Is Amazon Colombian?
Yes. Amazon originated in Colombia and its owner, Colombina, is also headquartered in Colombia.
Since when has Colombina owned Amazon?
Colombina has owned Amazon since 2013.
Is Amazon still owned by Colombina?
Yes. As of 28 September 2026, Amazon is still owned by Colombina. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (2) & 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] Colombina S.A. — Informe Anual 2025 — Colombina S.A., Annual report; retrieved 16 September 2026.
- [2] USPTO: AMAZON, serial 87046350 — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark registry; retrieved 28 September 2026.
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