Who owns Fruta?
Fruta is owned by S.M. Jaleel (Trinidad and Tobago).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: S.M. Jaleel & Co. Ltd — S.M.J Heritage, S.M. Jaleel & Company Limited. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- S.M. Jaleel & Company Limited reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago, South Oropouche
- Origin
- 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago
- Founded
- 1983
- Category
- Beverages › Soft drinks › Juice & juice drinks
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Fruta
Fruta is the juice drink range S.M. Jaleel launched in cans in 1983 and has since extended into PET in 2007, Tetra Pak cartons in 2008 and one-litre packs in 2009. The company says it remains among the three most popular juice brands in the English-speaking Caribbean. It is made on a hot-fill PET line the company built in 2007 — the first in the Caribbean — using a heat-set resin bottle that can be filled at up to 93 degrees Celsius.
Ownership timeline of Fruta
- Current owner S.M. Jaleel [1] reported
Where Fruta sits in S.M. Jaleel
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by S.M. Jaleel
S.M. Jaleel controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 8 of them in beverages.
Also in beverages
Other brands in juice & juice drinks, and who owns them
The 142 brands in juice & juice drinks on Brandtree belong to 84 owners. The largest is Eckes-Granini, with 11; S.M. Jaleel has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Brämhults | Eckes-Granini | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Apple & Eve | Lassonde | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Appletiser | Coca-Cola | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Kagome Tomato Juice | Kagome | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Fructal | Nectar Group | 🇷🇸 Serbia |
| All Coco | Sappe | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| Amayu | AJE | 🇵🇪 Peru |
| Kiddy Pack | Kasapreko | 🇬🇭 Ghana |
About the owner: S.M. Jaleel
S.M. Jaleel is a privately held company headquartered in South Oropouche, Trinidad and Tobago, founded in 1924. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control.
S.M. Jaleel is one of the oldest and largest non-alcoholic beverage manufacturers in the English-speaking Caribbean, founded in Trinidad in 1924 by Sheikh Mohammed Jaleel and still family-controlled: his daughter Salaha Mohammed bought the failing business back into the family in 1975 and asked her son, Dr Aleem Mohammed, to abandon medicine to run it. He became chairman and chief executive in 1980 and moved the factory to the Otaheite Industrial Estate in South Trinidad, which remains the headquarters. The company pioneered PET bottling in the Caribbean in 1984, blows its own bottles directly from resin at roughly 18,000 an hour, and manufactures or distributes through subsidiaries in Barbados, Guyana, Suriname, St Lucia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and India. It marked its centenary in 2024.
🇹🇹 Fruta and other Trinidad and Tobago brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 19 brands that began in Trinidad and Tobago. All of them are controlled from Trinidad and Tobago.
- Amaro di Angostura — Angostura 🇹🇹
- Caribbean Airlines — Caribbean Airlines 🇹🇹
- Angostura Chill — Angostura 🇹🇹
- Angostura rum — Angostura 🇹🇹
- Correia's — Angostura 🇹🇹
- Fernandes Black Label — Angostura 🇹🇹
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Fruta?
The parent company of Fruta is S.M. Jaleel, a privately held company headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago.
Is Fruta Trinidad and Tobago?
Yes. Fruta originated in Trinidad and Tobago in 1983 and its owner, S.M. Jaleel, is also headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago.
Is Fruta still owned by S.M. Jaleel?
Yes. As of 20 September 2026, Fruta is still owned by S.M. Jaleel. 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] S.M. Jaleel & Co. Ltd — S.M.J Heritage — S.M. Jaleel & Company Limited, Official document; retrieved 20 September 2026.
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