Who owns CHAGEE?
CHAGEE is owned by Chagee Holdings Limited (China, NASDAQ: CHA).[1]
Evidence: Chagee Holdings Limited Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-29, SEC EDGAR, 29 April 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Chagee Holdings Limited verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇳 China, Shanghai
- Origin
- 🇨🇳 China
- Founded
- 2017
- Category
- Restaurants & foodservice › Quick-service restaurants › Coffee & café chains
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: CHA
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About CHAGEE
CHAGEE is a Chinese chain of premium freshly made tea-drink shops, founded in June 2017 and modelled, the company says, on how international coffee chains made coffee a lifestyle. Tea lattes, a category the company says it created in China's premium tea-drink industry, earned 89% of its GMV in China in 2025; Jasmine Green Tea Latte is the signature drink. At 30 June 2026 there were 7,639 CHAGEE teahouses, 6,756 franchised and 883 company-owned. Abroad it trades in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines and the United States.
Ownership timeline of CHAGEE
Where CHAGEE sits in Chagee
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands in coffee & café chains, and who owns them
The 22 brands in coffee & café chains on Brandtree belong to 17 owners. The largest is Jollibee Group, with 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Compose Coffee | Jollibee Group | 🇵🇭 Philippines |
| Coffee Couture | Famous Brands | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| Elios Craft Cafe | BMMI | 🇧🇭 Bahrain |
| Costa Coffee | Coca-Cola | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Dutch Bros | Dutch Bros | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Dunkin' | Inspire Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Jeronymo | Jerónimo Martins | 🇵🇹 Portugal |
| Luckin Coffee | Luckin Coffee | 🇨🇳 China |
About the owner: Chagee
Chagee is a publicly listed company headquartered in Shanghai, China, founded in 2017. Brandtree records 1 brand under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: CHA.
Chagee Holdings is the Shanghai-based, Cayman Islands-incorporated company that runs the CHAGEE chain of premium tea-drink shops. Junjie Zhang founded CHAGEE in June 2017 and remains its chairman and chief executive, and its American depositary shares have traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market since 17 April 2025. At the end of 2025 it had 7,453 teahouses, 7,108 in China and 345 abroad, most of them franchised. Its 2025 net revenue was RMB12.91 billion, on gross merchandise value of RMB31.58 billion. The group says it conducts its Chinese business through wholly owned subsidiaries and does not use a variable interest entity.
🇨🇳 CHAGEE and other Chinese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 327 brands that began in China. 39 of them (12%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; CHAGEE is not one of them.
- Chaonabian — Jiumaojiu 🇨🇳
- Hong Zhuang Yuan — Jollibee Group 🇵🇭
- Luckin Coffee — Luckin Coffee 🇨🇳
- Lucky Cup — Mixue 🇨🇳
- 1688.com — Alibaba 🇭🇰
- 17.5° — Nongfu Spring 🇨🇳
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of CHAGEE?
The parent company of CHAGEE is Chagee Holdings Limited, a publicly listed company headquartered in China.
Is CHAGEE Chinese?
Yes. CHAGEE originated in China in 2017 and its owner, Chagee Holdings Limited, is also headquartered in China.
Is CHAGEE still owned by Chagee Holdings Limited?
Yes. As of 22 October 2026, CHAGEE is still owned by Chagee Holdings Limited. 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] Chagee Holdings Limited Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-29 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 29 April 2026; retrieved 22 October 2026.
- [2] Chagee Announces Second Quarter 2026 Unaudited Financial Results (Form 6-K, Exhibit 99.1) — Chagee Holdings Limited, SEC filing, published 28 August 2026; retrieved 22 October 2026.
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