Who owns Maisha?
Maisha is owned by Ketepa (Kenya).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: KETEPA — About and product-category pages, Kenya Tea Packers Limited. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Kenya Tea Packers Limited reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇰🇪 Kenya
- Origin
- 🇰🇪 Kenya
- Category
- Beverages › Soft drinks › Bottled water
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Maisha
Maisha is Ketepa's purified bottled water brand, the product that took the company beyond tea and into general beverages. Ketepa's own account of its history frames the water line as evidence that it is "more than tea and water" — a deliberate diversification by a company whose core business and ownership structure otherwise run entirely through KTDA's tea-growing membership.
Ownership timeline of Maisha
Where Maisha sits in Ketepa
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Ketepa
Ketepa controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in beverages.
Also in beverages
Other brands in bottled water, and who owns them
The 123 brands in bottled water on Brandtree belong to 74 owners. The largest is Spadel, with 5.
About the owner: Ketepa
Ketepa is a privately held company headquartered in Kenya, founded in 1978. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control.
Ketepa packages and sells tea in Kenya as, in its own words, "a proud arm of KTDA" — the Kenya Tea Development Agency, a farmer-owned management body for more than 650,000 smallholders producing over 60% of Kenya's tea. The company dates to 1978 and has since expanded beyond tea into bottled water under its Maisha brand. It produces more than 50 individual products across black, green, purple and white tea, flavoured teas and herbal infusions, and through KTDA's community structure it channels support into health, education, livelihoods and sustainable farming programmes in tea-growing areas.
🇰🇪 Maisha and other Kenyan brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 59 brands that began in Kenya. 3 of them (5%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Maisha is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Maisha?
The parent company of Maisha is Ketepa, a privately held company headquartered in Kenya.
Is Maisha Kenyan?
Yes. Maisha originated in Kenya and its owner, Ketepa, is also headquartered in Kenya.
Is Maisha still owned by Ketepa?
Yes. As of 20 September 2026, Maisha is still owned by Ketepa. 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] KETEPA — About and product-category pages — Kenya Tea Packers Limited, Official document; retrieved 20 September 2026.
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