Who owns Busta?
Busta is owned by S.M. Jaleel (Trinidad and Tobago).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: S.M. Jaleel & Co. Ltd — S.M.J Heritage, S.M. Jaleel & Company Limited. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- S.M. Jaleel & Company Limited reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago, South Oropouche
- Origin
- 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago
- Founded
- 1997
- Category
- Beverages › Soft drinks › Other carbonated soft drinks
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Busta
Busta is the PET-bottled soft drink range S.M. Jaleel launched in 1997, the year the company also set up subsidiaries in Barbados — a joint venture with Goddard Enterprises to buy BIM Beverages — and in Guyana, both of which bottled Busta and Chubby locally. Two years later the brand was among those a joint venture with Culligan took into Haiti. It remains one of the company's most visible names in Trinidad and Tobago, where it has been used as an official beverage of Caribbean Premier League cricket.
Ownership timeline of Busta
- Current owner S.M. Jaleel [1] reported
Where Busta sits in S.M. Jaleel
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
Open the full S.M. Jaleel ownership tree →
See the full S.M. Jaleel brand portfolio (8) →
Other brands owned by S.M. Jaleel
S.M. Jaleel controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 8 of them in beverages.
Also in beverages
Other brands in other carbonated soft drinks, and who owns them
The 80 brands in other carbonated soft drinks on Brandtree belong to 47 owners. The largest is PepsiCo, with 4; S.M. Jaleel has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Hamoud La Blanche | Hamoud Boualem | 🇩🇿 Algeria |
| 7UP (United States) | Keurig Dr Pepper | 🇺🇸 United States |
| 7UP | PepsiCo | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Colombiana | Postobón | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
| Faxe Kondi | Royal Unibrew | 🇩🇰 Denmark |
| Fanta | Coca-Cola | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Hi-Malt | Heineken | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
| Jones Soda | Jones Soda | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: S.M. Jaleel
S.M. Jaleel is a privately held company headquartered in South Oropouche, Trinidad and Tobago, founded in 1924. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control.
S.M. Jaleel is one of the oldest and largest non-alcoholic beverage manufacturers in the English-speaking Caribbean, founded in Trinidad in 1924 by Sheikh Mohammed Jaleel and still family-controlled: his daughter Salaha Mohammed bought the failing business back into the family in 1975 and asked her son, Dr Aleem Mohammed, to abandon medicine to run it. He became chairman and chief executive in 1980 and moved the factory to the Otaheite Industrial Estate in South Trinidad, which remains the headquarters. The company pioneered PET bottling in the Caribbean in 1984, blows its own bottles directly from resin at roughly 18,000 an hour, and manufactures or distributes through subsidiaries in Barbados, Guyana, Suriname, St Lucia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and India. It marked its centenary in 2024.
🇹🇹 Busta and other Trinidad and Tobago brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 19 brands that began in Trinidad and Tobago. All of them are controlled from Trinidad and Tobago.
- Amaro di Angostura — Angostura 🇹🇹
- Caribbean Airlines — Caribbean Airlines 🇹🇹
- Angostura Chill — Angostura 🇹🇹
- Angostura rum — Angostura 🇹🇹
- Correia's — Angostura 🇹🇹
- Fernandes Black Label — Angostura 🇹🇹
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Busta?
The parent company of Busta is S.M. Jaleel, a privately held company headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago.
Is Busta Trinidad and Tobago?
Yes. Busta originated in Trinidad and Tobago in 1997 and its owner, S.M. Jaleel, is also headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago.
Is Busta still owned by S.M. Jaleel?
Yes. As of 20 September 2026, Busta is still owned by S.M. Jaleel. 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] S.M. Jaleel & Co. Ltd — S.M.J Heritage — S.M. Jaleel & Company Limited, Official document; retrieved 20 September 2026.
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