Who owns Coca-Cola (Sudan)?
Coca-Cola (Sudan) is made and sold by DAL Group (the Sudan) under licence, an arrangement in place since 2002; DAL Group does not own the name.[1] The Coca-Cola name is owned by The Coca-Cola Company.
Evidence: DAL Group — Food & Beverages. Last checked .
Key facts
- Licensed to
- DAL Group Company Ltd reported
- Since
- Headquarters
- 🇸🇩 Sudan, Khartoum
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Category
- Beverages › Soft drinks › Cola
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Coca-Cola (Sudan)
DAL Group won the contract to be the sole bottler and distributor of The Coca-Cola Company's brands in Sudan in 2002, and set up DAL Food Industries to do it. It produces Coca-Cola, Fanta and Sprite at its Khartoum North plant. The names are not DAL's: the company makes and sells them under franchise, and its own soft drinks brands are the Safia and Rawan waters and the Rio and Bibo juices filled on the same site.
Ownership timeline of Coca-Cola (Sudan)
Where Coca-Cola (Sudan) sits in DAL Group
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by DAL Group
DAL Group controls 10 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in beverages.
Also in beverages
Other brands in cola, and who owns them
The 23 brands in cola on Brandtree belong to 12 owners. The largest is Coca-Cola, with 5.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Coca-Cola | Coca-Cola | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Coca-Cola Almaty Bottlers | Coca-Cola İçecek | 🇹🇷 Turkey |
| Diet Pepsi | PepsiCo | 🇺🇸 United States |
| BIG Cola | AJE | 🇵🇪 Peru |
| Hamoud Cola | Hamoud Boualem | 🇩🇿 Algeria |
| Kofola | Kofola | 🇨🇿 Czech Republic |
| Smart Cola | Obolon | 🇺🇦 Ukraine |
| Jolly Cola | Olvi | 🇫🇮 Finland |
About the owner: DAL Group
DAL Group is a privately held company headquartered in Khartoum, Sudan, founded in 1951.
DAL Group calls itself Sudan's largest and most diversified privately owned conglomerate, and dates itself to 1951, when two British businessmen founded Sayer & Colley to trade engineering products such as bearings and belts. Caterpillar later gave it the Sudanese dealership, moved that dealership to Daoud Abdellatif's new company SUTRAC in 1966, and both firms were nationalised in 1970 before returning to private hands by the end of the decade; his eldest son Osama then renamed Sayer & Colley after his father's initials. Its consumer arm is DAL Food, formed in December 2013 from four group companies in agriculture, dairy, flour and soft drinks; the group also holds the Mercedes-Benz and Mitsubishi dealerships for Sudan, an industrial gases producer, a pharmaceutical importer and an international school.
🇺🇸 Coca-Cola (Sudan) and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,570 brands that began in the United States. 501 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Coca-Cola (Sudan) among them.
- 7UP — PepsiCo 🇺🇸
- 7UP (United States) — Keurig Dr Pepper 🇺🇸
- Alani Nu — Celsius Holdings 🇺🇸
- André — Gallo 🇺🇸
- Angry Orchard — Boston Beer 🇺🇸
- Apple & Eve — Lassonde 🇨🇦
Frequently asked questions
Who makes Coca-Cola (Sudan)?
DAL Group makes and sells Coca-Cola (Sudan) under a licensing agreement that has been in place since 2002.
Does DAL Group own Coca-Cola (Sudan)?
No. DAL Group holds a licence to make and sell Coca-Cola (Sudan), which is not the same as owning it.
Where did Coca-Cola (Sudan) come from?
Coca-Cola (Sudan) originated in the United States.
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] DAL Group — Food & Beverages — DAL Group, Official document; retrieved 22 September 2026.
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