Who owns Blendy?
Blendy is owned by Ajinomoto (Japan, TSE: 2802).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Ajinomoto Co., Inc. Integrated Report 2025, 30 September 2025. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Ajinomoto Co., Inc. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇯🇵 Japan, Tokyo
- Origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Founded
- 1977
- Category
- Beverages › Coffee, tea & hot drinks › Coffee
- Parent ticker
- TSE: 2802
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Blendy
Blendy is an instant coffee brand sold in Japan by Ajinomoto AGF, a business the company runs with General Foods heritage. It is one of the largest household coffee brands in the Japanese market. Its stick packs, single servings of powder in a paper tube, are a format that dominates Japanese instant coffee and is barely used elsewhere.
Ownership timeline of Blendy
Where Blendy sits in Ajinomoto
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Ajinomoto
Ajinomoto controls 4 brands on Brandtree.
Founded in the 1970s
Other brands in coffee, and who owns them
The 66 brands in coffee on Brandtree belong to 33 owners. The largest is Keurig Dr Pepper, with 10.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Douwe Egberts | Keurig Dr Pepper | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Café Caribe | Coffee Holding | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Café Barão | Melitta | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Nescafé | Nestlé | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Ah Huat | Power Root | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| Barcaffè | Atlantic Grupa | 🇭🇷 Croatia |
| Carte Noire | Lavazza | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Boyds | Royal Cup | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Ajinomoto
Ajinomoto is a publicly listed company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1909. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as TSE: 2802.
Ajinomoto was founded in 1909 to sell monosodium glutamate, isolated two years earlier by a Tokyo chemist who had identified umami as a distinct basic taste while investigating why kelp broth tasted savoury. The company is now a large food and amino acid business and a significant supplier to the pharmaceutical industry.
🇯🇵 Blendy and other Japanese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 448 brands that began in Japan. 22 of them (5%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Blendy is not one of them.
- Aquarius — Coca-Cola 🇺🇸
- Asahi Super Dry — Asahi Group 🇯🇵
- Café au Lait — Glico 🇯🇵
- Gogo no Kocha — Kirin 🇯🇵
- Hibiki — Suntory 🇯🇵
- ITO EN Matcha Green Tea — ITO EN 🇯🇵
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Blendy?
The parent company of Blendy is Ajinomoto, a publicly listed company headquartered in Japan.
Is Blendy Japanese?
Yes. Blendy originated in Japan in 1977 and its owner, Ajinomoto, is also headquartered in Japan.
Is Blendy still owned by Ajinomoto?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Blendy is still owned by Ajinomoto. 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] Ajinomoto Co., Inc. Integrated Report 2025 — Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Annual report, published 30 September 2025; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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