Kahlúa is owned by Pernod Ricard (France, EPA: RI), which acquired the brand on 26 July 2005, as part of a £7.4 billion deal that also included Malibu, Beefeater and G.H. Mumm.[1][2] Kahlúa was founded in 1936 in Mexico and was independent until 2005.
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Pernod Ricard Universal Registration Document 2024/25, Pernod Ricard SA, 17 September 2025. Last checked .
Kahlúa is a Mexican coffee liqueur created in 1936, made from arabica coffee and rum, and the essential ingredient of the White Russian and the espresso martini. Pernod Ricard acquired it with Allied Domecq in 2005, and it is the largest coffee liqueur brand in the world.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Pernod Ricard controls 11 brands on Brandtree, 11 of them in beverages.
The 42 brands in liqueurs & aperitifs on Brandtree belong to 25 owners. The largest is Kasapreko, with 3; Pernod Ricard has 2.
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Pernod Ricard is a publicly listed company headquartered in Paris, France, founded in 1975. Brandtree records 11 brands under its control, and it is listed as EPA: RI.
Pernod Ricard was created in 1975 by the merger of two French anise-spirit rivals and grew by acquisition into the second-largest spirits group in the world, notably through the break-ups of Seagram in 2001 and Allied Domecq in 2005.
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Brandtree records a controlling owner for 113 brands that began in Mexico. 28 of them (25%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Kahlúa among them.
Pernod Ricard acquired Allied Domecq for about £7.4 billion, bidding jointly with Fortune Brands, which took several of the brands to satisfy competition authorities. The purchase made Pernod Ricard the second largest spirits group in the world behind Diageo.
The parent company of Kahlúa is Pernod Ricard, a publicly listed company headquartered in France.
Kahlúa originated in Mexico in 1936, but it is owned today by Pernod Ricard, which is headquartered in France. So Kahlúa is a Mexican-origin brand under French ownership.
Pernod Ricard completed its acquisition of Kahlúa on 26 July 2005, after announcing the deal on 21 April 2005. The deal, which also included Malibu, Beefeater and G.H. Mumm, was valued at £7.4 billion (enterprise value).
Kahlúa was an independent company from its founding in 1936 until Pernod Ricard acquired it in 2005.
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Kahlúa is still owned by Pernod Ricard. 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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