Who owns Isenbeck?
Isenbeck is owned by CCU (Chile, NYSE: CCU), which has owned the brand since 2 May 2018.[1]
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. verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇱 Chile, Santiago
- Origin
- 🇦🇷 Argentina
- Category
- Beverages › Beer › Lager
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: CCU
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Isenbeck
Isenbeck passed from Anheuser-Busch InBev to CCU Argentina on 2 May 2018 as part of a settlement that ended CCU's licence to brew Budweiser in Argentina seven years early. Ownership of the name transferred outright, along with Diosa, Norte, Iguana and Báltica, and CCU also received 306 million dollars in compensation for giving up the Budweiser contract.
What CCU's annual report says about Isenbeck
Sentences about Isenbeck from CCU's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
As of May of 2018, CCU Argentina's brand portfolio also includes Isenbeck, Iguana and Norte, as well as the exclusive license agreements for the production and commercialization of Grolsch and Warsteiner, and no longer includes the license agreement for Budweiser.
On September 6, 2017, CCU and CCU Argentina reached an agreement with ABI for the early termination of the Budweiser license in Argentina, in exchange for a portfolio of brands (Isenbeck and Diosa, which were at the time owned by SAB Miller; and B ltica, Iguana, and Norte, which were owned by ABI), representing similar volumes to Budweiser in Argentina, plus a series of payments over a three-year period.
The following table shows our proprietary parent beer brands, brands produced under license and brands imported under license for the Argentinean market: Premium Mainstream Convenience Heineken (1) Salta C rdoba Sol (1) Santa Fe Palermo Kunstmann (2) Schneider Isenbeck Imperial Norte Iguana Salta Cautiva Amstel (1) Bieckert Miller Genuine Draft Grolsch (1) Warsteiner (1) Blue Moon (2) (1) Licensed.
How often CCU names Isenbeck 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. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Isenbeck
Where Isenbeck sits in CCU
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
- Austral (50%)
- Bilz y Pap
- Cachantún (50.1%)
- Cristal
- Escudo
- Gato Negro (85.15%)
- Graffigna (85.15%)
- Isenbeck
- Kunstmann
- Levité (50.1%)
- Manantial
- Mistral (80%)
- Palermo
- Royal Guard
- Schneider
- Sidra Real
- Villavicencio (50.1%)
- Viña Tarapacá (85.15%)
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Other brands owned by CCU
CCU controls 18 brands on Brandtree, 18 of them in beverages.
Also in beverages
- Austral
- Bilz y Pap (1905)
- Cachantún (1920)
- Cristal (1978)
- Escudo (1942)
- Gato Negro
- Graffigna (1870)
- Kunstmann (1989)
- Levité
- Manantial
- Mistral
- Palermo (1897)
- Royal Guard (1974)
- Schneider
- Sidra Real
- Villavicencio (1904)
- Viña Tarapacá (1874)
Other brands in lager, and who owns them
The 200 brands in lager on Brandtree belong to 55 owners. The largest is AB InBev, with 17; CCU has 6.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Aguila | AB InBev | 🇧🇪 Belgium |
| 33 Export | Heineken | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
| Allsopps | EABL | 🇰🇪 Kenya |
| Asahi Super Dry | Asahi Group | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| 333 | ThaiBev | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| Cabro | Cervecería Centro Americana | 🇬🇹 Guatemala |
| Beermix | Obolon | 🇺🇦 Ukraine |
| Bomonti Filtresiz | Anadolu Efes | 🇹🇷 Turkey |
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.
🇦🇷 Isenbeck and other Argentine brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 117 brands that began in Argentina. 30 of them (26%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Isenbeck among them.
- BC — Arcor 🇦🇷
- Bodega San Telmo — Grupo Peñaflor 🇦🇷
- Bonafide — Carozzi 🇨🇱
- Doña Paula — Viña Santa Rita 🇨🇱
- Etchart — Molinos 🇦🇷
- Finca Flichman — Sogrape 🇵🇹
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Isenbeck?
The parent company of Isenbeck is CCU, a publicly listed company headquartered in Chile.
Is Isenbeck Argentine or Chilean?
Isenbeck originated in Argentina, but it is owned today by CCU, which is headquartered in Chile. So Isenbeck is an Argentine-origin brand under Chilean ownership.
Since when has CCU owned Isenbeck?
CCU has owned Isenbeck since 2 May 2018.
Is Isenbeck still owned by CCU?
Yes. As of 29 October 2026, Isenbeck is still owned by CCU. 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] 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.
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