Who owns Cisk?
Cisk is owned by Farsons (Malta, MSE: SFC), which has owned the brand since 1948.[1][2]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Simonds Farsons Cisk p.l.c. Annual Report for the year ended 31 January 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Simonds Farsons Cisk p.l.c. reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇲🇹 Malta, Birkirkara
- Origin
- 🇲🇹 Malta
- Founded
- 1929
- Category
- Beverages › Beer › Lager
- Parent ticker
- MSE: SFC
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Cisk
Cisk is Malta's lager, launched in 1929 as Cisk Munchener by the Malta Export Brewery, which had been granted a temporary exclusive licence to make Pilsner and Bavarian-style beers. The odd name is a nickname: the banker Giuseppe Scicluna, whose family firm owned the brewery, was known as Ic-Cisk after a Maltese mispronunciation of "cheques", which he had introduced to the island. The portfolio now runs to Cisk Lager, Excel, the flavoured Chill range, Strong, a 3.0 per cent Cisk Session and Cisk 0.0, which the company reports as the market leader in non-alcoholic beer in Malta. It is exported, with Italy the strongest market.
Ownership timeline of Cisk
Where Cisk sits in Farsons
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Farsons
Farsons controls 10 brands on Brandtree, 10 of them in beverages.
Also in beverages
Other brands in lager, and who owns them
The 200 brands in lager on Brandtree belong to 55 owners. The largest is AB InBev, with 17; Farsons has 2.
About the owner: Farsons
Farsons is a publicly listed company headquartered in Birkirkara, Malta, founded in 1928. Brandtree records 10 brands under its control, and it is listed as MSE: SFC.
Farsons is Malta's brewer and soft drinks bottler, and traces its origins to 1928, when L. Farrugia & Sons built a brewery in Hamrun and launched Farsons Pale Ale on 19 April. It merged with the British brewer H & G Simonds a year later and with the Malta Export Brewery, makers of Cisk, in 1948, which gave the company the three-part name it still carries. It was the first private-sector company to list on the Malta Stock Exchange, in 1995. In the year to 31 January 2026 it spun off its food business — Quintano Foods and the Maltese Pizza Hut, Burger King and KFC franchises — as Quinco Holdings p.l.c., distributed to its own shareholders as a dividend in kind and separately listed in October 2025, which the company describes as returning it to its original roots as a brewer, bottler and importer of beverages. Turnover from continuing operations was €106.5 million.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Cisk?
The parent company of Cisk is Farsons, a publicly listed company headquartered in Malta.
Is Cisk Maltese?
Yes. Cisk originated in Malta in 1929 and its owner, Farsons, is also headquartered in Malta.
Since when has Farsons owned Cisk?
Farsons has owned Cisk since 1948.
Is Cisk still owned by Farsons?
Yes. As of 23 October 2026, Cisk is still owned by Farsons. 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] Simonds Farsons Cisk p.l.c. Annual Report for the year ended 31 January 2026 — Simonds Farsons Cisk p.l.c., Annual report; retrieved 18 September 2026.
- [2] Simonds Farsons Cisk p.l.c. — our heritage — Simonds Farsons Cisk p.l.c., Official document; retrieved 27 September 2026.
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