Who owns Cachantún?
Cachantún is owned by CCU (Chile, NYSE: CCU), which has owned the brand since 1960.[1][2]
CCU owns 50.1% of Cachantún rather than all of it.
Evidence: Compañía Cervecerías Unidas S.A. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-29, SEC EDGAR, 29 April 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Compañía Cervecerías Unidas S.A. (50.1% stake) verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇱 Chile, Santiago
- Origin
- 🇨🇱 Chile
- Founded
- 1920
- Category
- Beverages › Soft drinks › Bottled water
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: CCU
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Cachantún
Cachantún is one of two mineral waters CCU bottles at source in Chile, drawn at Coinco in the O'Higgins Region; the other, Porvenir, comes from Casablanca in the Valparaíso Region. The brand belongs to Aguas CCU, a water company held 50.10% by CCU's soft drinks subsidiary and 49.90% by Nestlé Chile, an arrangement dating from a 2007 association that later merged the two partners' water businesses.
Ownership timeline of Cachantún
Where Cachantún sits in CCU
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
- Austral (50%)
- Bilz y Pap
- Cachantún (50.1%)
- Cristal
- Escudo
- Gato Negro (85.15%)
- Graffigna (85.15%)
- Isenbeck
- Kunstmann
- Levité (50.1%)
- Manantial
- Mistral (80%)
- Palermo
- Royal Guard
- Schneider
- Sidra Real
- Villavicencio (50.1%)
- Viña Tarapacá (85.15%)
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Other brands owned by CCU
CCU controls 18 brands on Brandtree, 18 of them in beverages.
Also in beverages
- Austral
- Bilz y Pap (1905)
- Cristal (1978)
- Escudo (1942)
- Gato Negro
- Graffigna (1870)
- Isenbeck
- Kunstmann (1989)
- Levité
- Manantial
- Mistral
- Palermo (1897)
- Royal Guard (1974)
- Schneider
- Sidra Real
- Villavicencio (1904)
- Viña Tarapacá (1874)
Other brands in bottled water, and who owns them
The 123 brands in bottled water on Brandtree belong to 74 owners. The largest is Spadel, with 5; CCU has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bru | Spadel | 🇧🇪 Belgium |
| Al Ain Water | Agthia | 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates |
| Dasani | Coca-Cola | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Jamnica | Fortenova Group | 🇭🇷 Croatia |
| Ondrášovka | Kofola | 🇨🇿 Czech Republic |
| Aïn Atlas | Oulmès | 🇲🇦 Morocco |
| Garci | SFBT | 🇹🇳 Tunisia |
| Melgaço | Super Bock Group | 🇵🇹 Portugal |
About the owner: CCU
CCU is a publicly listed company headquartered in Santiago, Chile, founded in 1902. Brandtree records 18 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: CCU.
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas is a Chilean multi-category beverage company whose oldest predecessor was the brewery Joaquín Plagemann opened in Valparaíso in 1850; the present company was organised by public deed in January 1902 out of a merger of two breweries. It sells beer, soft drinks, bottled water, wine, pisco, rum and cider in Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Paraguay and Uruguay, and reported more than 180 brands when it marked its 175th anniversary in 2025. Chile produces roughly two-thirds of its sales. Its controlling shareholder, IRSA, holds 65.87% of the company and is itself split evenly between Quiñenco and Heineken.
🇨🇱 Cachantún and other Chilean brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 69 brands that began in Chile. 8 of them (12%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Cachantún is not one of them.
- Almaviva — Concha y Toro 🇨🇱
- Carmen — Viña Santa Rita 🇨🇱
- Chateau Los Boldos — Sogrape 🇵🇹
- Guallarauco — Coca-Cola Andina 🇨🇱
- Indomita — Changyu 🇨🇳
- Santa Carolina — Watt's 🇨🇱
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Cachantún?
The parent company of Cachantún is CCU, a publicly listed company headquartered in Chile.
Is Cachantún Chilean?
Yes. Cachantún originated in Chile in 1920 and its owner, CCU, is also headquartered in Chile.
Since when has CCU owned Cachantún?
CCU has owned Cachantún since 1960.
Is Cachantún still owned by CCU?
Yes. As of 29 October 2026, Cachantún is still owned by CCU (50.1% stake). 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] Compañía Cervecerías Unidas S.A. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-29 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 29 April 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
- [2] CCU: Nuestra historia — hitos y productos históricos — Compañía Cervecerías Unidas S.A., Official document; retrieved 27 September 2026.
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