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Who owns Cass?

Cass is owned by AB InBev (Belgium, NYSE: BUD).[1]

Evidence: Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-03-03, SEC EDGAR, 3 March 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .

Key facts

Current owner
Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV verified
Owner HQ
🇧🇪 Belgium, Leuven
Origin
🇰🇷 South Korea
Founded
1994
Category
Beverages › Beer › Lager
Parent ticker
NYSE: BUD
Last verified
· 1 sources

About Cass

Cass is the leading beer brand in South Korea, launched in 1994 and brewed by Oriental Brewery, which AB InBev owns. It is a light lager sold heavily through restaurants and is closely associated with the Korean practice of drinking beer alongside fried chicken.

What AB InBev's annual report says about Cass

Sentences about Cass from AB InBev's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.

How often AB InBev names Cass in its annual report

A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.

Annual report filedTimes Cass is named
202612
20257
20247

Ownership timeline of Cass

Owners of Cass over 1994 to 2026 AB InBev start not recorded–present AB InBev (start not recorded) 1995200020052010201520202025
  1. Current owner AB InBev [1] verified

Where Cass sits in AB InBev

Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.

Where Cass sits in AB InBev Tree of 21 brands under AB InBev. AB InBev Cass Aguila Beck's Brahma Bud Light Bud Light Seltzer and 15 more

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Other brands owned by AB InBev

AB InBev controls 21 brands on Brandtree, 21 of them in beverages.

Also in beverages

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Other brands in lager, and who owns them

AB InBev has more brands in lager on Brandtree than any other owner: 17 of 200.

BrandOwnerOwner based in
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333 ThaiBev 🇹🇭 Thailand
Cristal CCU 🇨🇱 Chile
Cabro Cervecería Centro Americana 🇬🇹 Guatemala
Beermix Obolon 🇺🇦 Ukraine
Bomonti Filtresiz Anadolu Efes 🇹🇷 Turkey

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About the owner: AB InBev

AB InBev is a publicly listed company headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, founded in 2008. Brandtree records 21 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: BUD.

AB InBev is the largest brewer in the world, formed in 2008 when the Belgian-Brazilian InBev acquired Anheuser-Busch and enlarged again in 2016 by taking over SABMiller. Its beers are sold in about 150 countries.

AB InBev: full profile, brands and acquisition history →

🇰🇷 Cass and other South Korean brands

Brandtree records a controlling owner for 185 brands that began in South Korea. 7 of them (4%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Cass among them.

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Frequently asked questions

Who is the parent company of Cass?

The parent company of Cass is AB InBev, a publicly listed company headquartered in Belgium.

Is Cass South Korean or Belgian?

Cass originated in South Korea in 1994, but it is owned today by AB InBev, which is headquartered in Belgium. So Cass is a South Korean-origin brand under Belgian ownership.

Is Cass still owned by AB InBev?

Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Cass is still owned by AB InBev. 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. [1] Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-03-03 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 3 March 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.

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