Who owns Café Barão?
Café Barão is owned by Melitta (Germany).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Melitta Group Annual Report 2023 — Business fields and brands / Facts & figures. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Melitta Group reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇩🇪 Germany, Minden
- Origin
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Category
- Beverages › Coffee, tea & hot drinks › Coffee
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Café Barão
Café Barão is a coffee brand of Melitta South America, the Melitta Group division headquartered in São Paulo, and the group lists it among the core brands of its coffee business with Melitta, Café Bom Jesus and Caffè Corsini. The division roasts coffee at two plants in Brazil and also runs a paper mill making coffee filter papers, selling blends, capsules and instant coffees for home use under its local brands.
Ownership timeline of Café Barão
Where Café Barão sits in Melitta
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Melitta
Melitta controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in beverages.
Also in beverages
- Avoury (2019)
- Café Bom Jesus
- Caffè Corsini (1950)
- Melitta (1908)
Other brands in coffee, and who owns them
The 63 brands in coffee on Brandtree belong to 32 owners. The largest is Keurig Dr Pepper, with 10; Melitta has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Douwe Egberts | Keurig Dr Pepper | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Café Caribe | Coffee Holding | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Nescafé | Nestlé | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Ah Huat | Power Root | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| Barcaffè | Atlantic Grupa | 🇭🇷 Croatia |
| Carte Noire | Lavazza | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Almendra Tropical | CasaLuker | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
| La Bastilla | Grupo Nutresa | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
About the owner: Melitta
Melitta is a privately held company headquartered in Minden, Germany, founded in 1908. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control.
Melitta Group describes itself as an internationally active, family-owned group of companies that traces its existence to Melitta Bentz and her invention of the coffee filter in 1908. Its annual report divides it into coffee, coffee preparation (filters, coffee machines, kettles) and household products (food wrap, freezer and waste bags, vacuum-cleaner filter bags), plus industrial papers and packaging. The household-products brands in the film and foil business are run by its Cofresco division in Minden; Cofresco also holds Albal, BacoFoil, handy bag, Swirl and Wrapmaster, which are not listed here because the report does not say where those brands began. Granini juice was once a Melitta brand: Melitta sold it to Eckes in 1994 and held 26 per cent of the juice business until 2006.
🇧🇷 Café Barão and other Brazilian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 149 brands that began in Brazil. 31 of them (21%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Café Barão among them.
- Brahma — AB InBev 🇧🇪
- Nescau — Nestlé 🇨🇭
- Pilão — Keurig Dr Pepper 🇺🇸
- Therezópolis — Coca-Cola Andina 🇨🇱
- Adria — M. Dias Branco 🇧🇷
- Aena Brasil — Aena 🇪🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Café Barão?
The parent company of Café Barão is Melitta, a privately held company headquartered in Germany.
Is Café Barão Brazilian or German?
Café Barão originated in Brazil, but it is owned today by Melitta, which is headquartered in Germany. So Café Barão is a Brazilian-origin brand under German ownership.
Is Café Barão still owned by Melitta?
Yes. As of 4 October 2026, Café Barão is still owned by Melitta. 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] Melitta Group Annual Report 2023 — Business fields and brands / Facts & figures — Melitta Group, Annual report; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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