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Who owns Gato Negro?

Gato Negro is owned by CCU (Chile, NYSE: CCU), which has owned the brand since 1994.[1][2]

CCU owns 85.15% of Gato Negro rather than all of it.

Evidence: Compañía Cervecerías Unidas S.A. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-29, SEC EDGAR, 29 April 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .

Key facts

Current owner
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas S.A. (85.15% stake) verified
Owned since
Owner HQ
🇨🇱 Chile, Santiago
Origin
🇨🇱 Chile
Category
Beverages › Wine & champagne › Still wine
Parent ticker
NYSE: CCU
Trademark registrant
VIÑA SAN PEDRO TARAPACÁ S.A. (USPTO)
Last verified
· 3 sources

About Gato Negro

Gato Negro is the export name of the wine Viña San Pedro sells at home as Gato, and the best-known label of VSPT Wine Group, an eight-winery business that CCU built up through purchases between 1994 and 2024 and now controls with an 85.15% stake. VSPT is the second-largest exporter of Chilean wine.

How often CCU names Gato Negro in its annual report

A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central.

Annual report filedTimes Gato Negro is named
20261
20251
20241

Trademark record for Gato Negro

The USPTO record for the Gato Negro mark lists VIÑA SAN PEDRO TARAPACÁ S.A. as the owner of record (serial number 78527343). A trademark is often held by a group company rather than the listed parent, so the registrant's name can differ from the owner named above.[3]

Ownership timeline of Gato Negro

Owners of Gato Negro over 1994 to 2026 CCU 1994–present CCU 1995200020052010201520202025
  1. 1994 – present CCU (85.15%) [1][2] verified

Where Gato Negro sits in CCU

Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.

Where Gato Negro sits in CCU Tree of 18 brands under CCU. CCU Gato Negro 85.15% Austral 50% Bilz y Pap Cachantún 50.1% Cristal Escudo and 12 more

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Other brands owned by CCU

CCU controls 18 brands on Brandtree, 18 of them in beverages.

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Other brands in still wine, and who owns them

The 128 brands in still wine on Brandtree belong to 35 owners. The largest is Concha y Toro, with 11; CCU has 3.

BrandOwnerOwner based in
Almaviva Concha y Toro 🇨🇱 Chile
Carlo Rossi Gallo 🇺🇸 United States
Bodega San Telmo Grupo Peñaflor 🇦🇷 Argentina
Aura Sogrape 🇵🇹 Portugal
AFIP Changyu 🇨🇳 China
Archery Summit Crimson Wine Group 🇺🇸 United States
19 Crimes Treasury Wine Estates 🇦🇺 Australia
Aphrodite KEO 🇨🇾 Cyprus

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About the owner: CCU

CCU is a publicly listed company headquartered in Santiago, Chile, founded in 1902. Brandtree records 18 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: CCU.

Compañía Cervecerías Unidas is a Chilean multi-category beverage company whose oldest predecessor was the brewery Joaquín Plagemann opened in Valparaíso in 1850; the present company was organised by public deed in January 1902 out of a merger of two breweries. It sells beer, soft drinks, bottled water, wine, pisco, rum and cider in Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Paraguay and Uruguay, and reported more than 180 brands when it marked its 175th anniversary in 2025. Chile produces roughly two-thirds of its sales. Its controlling shareholder, IRSA, holds 65.87% of the company and is itself split evenly between Quiñenco and Heineken.

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🇨🇱 Gato Negro and other Chilean brands

Brandtree records a controlling owner for 69 brands that began in Chile. 8 of them (12%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Gato Negro is not one of them.

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Frequently asked questions

Who is the parent company of Gato Negro?

The parent company of Gato Negro is CCU, a publicly listed company headquartered in Chile.

Is Gato Negro Chilean?

Yes. Gato Negro originated in Chile and its owner, CCU, is also headquartered in Chile.

Since when has CCU owned Gato Negro?

CCU has owned Gato Negro since 1994.

Is Gato Negro still owned by CCU?

Yes. As of 29 October 2026, Gato Negro is still owned by CCU (85.15% stake). The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.

Sources (3) & 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. [1] Compañía Cervecerías Unidas S.A. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-29 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 29 April 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
  2. [2] CCU: Nuestra historia — hitos y productos históricos — Compañía Cervecerías Unidas S.A., Official document; retrieved 27 September 2026.
  3. [3] USPTO: GATO NEGRO, serial 78527343 — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark registry; retrieved 27 September 2026.

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