Who owns La Estación?
La Estación is owned by Dos Pinos (Costa Rica).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Dos Pinos — Reporte de Sostenibilidad 2024, Cooperativa de Productores de Leche Dos Pinos R.L. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Cooperativa de Productores de Leche Dos Pinos R.L. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇷 Costa Rica, Coyol de Alajuela
- Origin
- 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
- Founded
- 2017
- Category
- Restaurants & foodservice › Quick-service restaurants › Ice cream & dessert chains
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About La Estación
La Estación is the ice cream parlour chain Dos Pinos opened in 2017, starting with a single shop at Plaza Village in Escazú. By the end of 2024 it had seventeen parlours across Costa Rica, which makes it the co-operative's own route to consumers alongside the supermarkets that carry its cartons, and a shop window for the ice cream it has been making since 1953.
Ownership timeline of La Estación
Where La Estación sits in Dos Pinos
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
Open the full Dos Pinos ownership tree →
See the full Dos Pinos brand portfolio (11) →
Other brands owned by Dos Pinos
Dos Pinos controls 11 brands on Brandtree.
Other brands in ice cream & dessert chains, and who owns them
The 12 brands in ice cream & dessert chains on Brandtree belong to 11 owners. The largest is MTY Group, with 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Cold Stone Creamery | MTY Group | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| After You | After You | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| Dairy Queen | Berkshire Hathaway | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Milky Lane | Famous Brands | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| Helados Bon | Grupo Nutresa | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
| Palazzo del Freddo Giovanni Fassi | Haitai | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Ibaco | Hatsun Agro | 🇮🇳 India |
| Baskin-Robbins | Inspire Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Dos Pinos
Dos Pinos is a cooperative headquartered in Coyol de Alajuela, Costa Rica, founded in 1947. Brandtree records 11 brands under its control.
Dos Pinos is a dairy co-operative founded in 1947 by twenty-five Costa Rican milk producers and owned today by around 1,300 producer members, under a commitment to collect every litre their farms produce, 365 days a year. Its head office and main industrial complex are at Coyol de Alajuela. It runs seven production plants, nine branches, eighteen agro-veterinary stores, seventeen La Estación ice cream parlours and six self-service shops in Costa Rica, and operates plants or distribution businesses in Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. Kantar ranked Dos Pinos the preferred brand in Costa Rica in its 2024 Brand Footprint Latam study.
🇨🇷 La Estación and other Costa Rican brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 13 brands that began in Costa Rica. 3 of them (23%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; La Estación is not one of them.
- Cemaco — Corporación Favorita 🇪🇨
- Liberty Costa Rica — Liberty Latin America 🇧🇲
- Pet's Market — Grupo Melo 🇵🇦
- SANSA — SANSA 🇨🇷
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of La Estación?
The parent company of La Estación is Dos Pinos, a cooperative headquartered in Costa Rica.
Is La Estación Costa Rican?
Yes. La Estación originated in Costa Rica in 2017 and its owner, Dos Pinos, is also headquartered in Costa Rica.
Is La Estación still owned by Dos Pinos?
Yes. As of 20 September 2026, La Estación is still owned by Dos Pinos. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (2) & 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] Dos Pinos — Reporte de Sostenibilidad 2024 — Cooperativa de Productores de Leche Dos Pinos R.L., Annual report; retrieved 20 September 2026.
- [2] Dos Pinos — Reporte de Sostenibilidad 2022 — Cooperativa de Productores de Leche Dos Pinos R.L., Annual report; retrieved 20 September 2026.
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