Innocent is owned by Coca-Cola (the United States, NYSE: KO), which acquired the brand on 22 February 2013.[1][2] Innocent was founded in 1999 in the United Kingdom and was independent until 2013.
Evidence: The Coca-Cola Company Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-20, SEC EDGAR, 20 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Innocent was founded in 1999 by three Cambridge graduates who tested the idea at a music festival, asking people to vote on whether they should quit their jobs by which bin they put their empty cup in. Coca-Cola took a minority stake in 2009 and majority control in 2013.
The USPTO record for the Innocent mark lists Fresh Trading Limited as the owner of record (serial number 79201461). 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]
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Coca-Cola controls 24 brands on Brandtree, 23 of them in beverages.
The 139 brands in juice & juice drinks on Brandtree belong to 82 owners. The largest is Eckes-Granini, with 11; Coca-Cola has 5.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Brämhults | Eckes-Granini | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Apple & Eve | Lassonde | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Kagome Tomato Juice | Kagome | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Fructal | Nectar Group | 🇷🇸 Serbia |
| All Coco | Sappe | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| Amayu | AJE | 🇵🇪 Peru |
| Kiddy Pack | Kasapreko | 🇬🇭 Ghana |
| Boka | Quala | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
Coca-Cola is a publicly listed company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, founded in 1892. Brandtree records 24 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: KO.
The Coca-Cola Company is an Atlanta beverage company incorporated in 1892. It owns brands and concentrate, and mostly does not bottle its own drinks: independent and partly owned bottlers such as Coca-Cola Europacific Partners handle production and distribution.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 552 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 291 of them (53%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Innocent among them.
Coca-Cola raised its stake in Innocent Drinks to over ninety per cent, having first invested in 2009. The founders had built the brand on an explicitly independent identity, and the sale to a multinational was contentious among its customers.
The parent company of Innocent is Coca-Cola, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Innocent originated in the United Kingdom in 1999, but it is owned today by Coca-Cola, which is headquartered in the United States. So Innocent is a British-origin brand under American ownership.
Coca-Cola completed its acquisition of Innocent on 22 February 2013, after announcing the deal on 22 February 2013. The price was not disclosed.
Innocent was an independent company from its founding in 1999 until Coca-Cola acquired it in 2013.
Yes. As of 27 September 2026, Innocent is still owned by Coca-Cola. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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