Who owns East Leaf?
East Leaf is owned by Nongfu Spring (China, HKEX: 9633).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Nongfu Spring — Announcement of Annual Results for the year ended December 31, 2025, Nongfu Spring Co., Ltd, 24 March 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Nongfu Spring Co., Ltd. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇳 China, Hangzhou
- Origin
- 🇨🇳 China
- Category
- Beverages › Soft drinks › Ready-to-drink tea & coffee
- Parent ticker
- HKEX: 9633
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About East Leaf
East Leaf is Nongfu Spring's range of sugar-free bottled teas, spanning the six major Chinese tea categories. In 2025 it added a 1.5-litre family bottle and Chenpi White Tea and Chrysanthemum Pu-erh flavours, and kept its seasonal Longjing spring tea and Osmanthus Oolong. Its maker's tea drinks earned RMB21,596 million that year, up 29 per cent, and East Leaf entered Hong Kong and Singapore.
Ownership timeline of East Leaf
- Current owner Nongfu Spring [1] reported
Where East Leaf sits in Nongfu Spring
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Nongfu Spring
Nongfu Spring controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 6 of them in beverages.
Also in beverages
Other brands in ready-to-drink tea & coffee, and who owns them
The 40 brands in ready-to-drink tea & coffee on Brandtree belong to 31 owners. The largest is Coca-Cola, with 3; Nongfu Spring has 3.
About the owner: Nongfu Spring
Nongfu Spring is a publicly listed company headquartered in Hangzhou, China, founded in 1996. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as HKEX: 9633.
Nongfu Spring is a Chinese packaged water and soft drink company listed in Hong Kong and chaired by Zhong Shanshan, which marks the 30th anniversary of its founding in 2026. Revenue rose 22.5 per cent to RMB52,553 million in 2025, with tea drinks (41.1 per cent) overtaking packaged water (35.6 per cent) as its largest category. It bottles at its own sources, of which it now has sixteen across China, and in 2025 took its water, East Leaf and Tea π into Hong Kong and Singapore.
Nongfu Spring: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇨🇳 East Leaf and other Chinese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 339 brands that began in China. 39 of them (12%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; East Leaf is not one of them.
- AFIP — Changyu 🇨🇳
- Augerta — Tsingtao Brewery 🇨🇳
- Brave the World — CR Beer 🇨🇳
- Century-old Luzhou Laojiao Jiaoling — Luzhou Laojiao 🇨🇳
- Fenjiu — Shanxi Fenjiu 🇨🇳
- Gujing Gongjiu — Gujing 🇨🇳
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of East Leaf?
The parent company of East Leaf is Nongfu Spring, a publicly listed company headquartered in China.
Is East Leaf Chinese?
Yes. East Leaf originated in China and its owner, Nongfu Spring, is also headquartered in China.
Is East Leaf still owned by Nongfu Spring?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, East Leaf is still owned by Nongfu Spring. 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] Nongfu Spring — Announcement of Annual Results for the year ended December 31, 2025 — Nongfu Spring Co., Ltd., Stock exchange filing, published 24 March 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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