Who owns Mount Gay?
Mount Gay is owned by Rémy Cointreau (France, EPA: RCO).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Rémy Cointreau Universal Registration Document 2024/25, Rémy Cointreau SA, 30 June 2025. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Rémy Cointreau SA reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇫🇷 France, Cognac
- Origin
- 🇧🇧 Barbados
- Founded
- 1703
- Category
- Beverages › Spirits › Rum
- Parent ticker
- EPA: RCO
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Mount Gay
Mount Gay has produced rum in Barbados since 1703 and holds documentation supporting a claim to be the oldest surviving rum brand in the world. Rémy Cointreau has controlled it since 1989 and it anchors the group's rum business. Barbados is where rum distillation is generally held to have originated in the seventeenth century.
Ownership timeline of Mount Gay
- Current owner Rémy Cointreau [1] reported
Where Mount Gay sits in Rémy Cointreau
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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See the full Rémy Cointreau brand portfolio (6) →
Other brands owned by Rémy Cointreau
Rémy Cointreau controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 6 of them in beverages.
Also in beverages
- Bruichladdich (1881)
- Cointreau (1875)
- Rémy Martin (1724)
- The Botanist (2011)
- Westland (2010)
Other brands in rum, and who owns them
The 48 brands in rum on Brandtree belong to 22 owners. The largest is Angostura, with 7.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Angostura rum | Angostura | 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago |
| Blue Label Arrack | DCSL | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka |
| Admiral Rodney | GBH | 🇲🇶 Martinique |
| Black Cat | SAB | 🇸🇷 Suriname |
| Cavalier | Antigua Distillery | 🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda |
| Bacardi | Bacardi | 🇧🇲 Bermuda |
| Diamond Reserve | Demerara Distillers | 🇬🇾 Guyana |
| Captain Morgan | Diageo | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
About the owner: Rémy Cointreau
Rémy Cointreau is a publicly listed company headquartered in Cognac, France, founded in 1990. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as EPA: RCO.
Rémy Cointreau was formed in 1990 by the merger of the Rémy Martin cognac house, founded 1724, with the Cointreau liqueur business, and the two founding families still control it. It has deliberately narrowed its portfolio to expensive spirits, selling off cheaper brands to concentrate on margin.
Rémy Cointreau: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇧🇧 Mount Gay and other Barbadian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 8 brands that began in Barbados. 2 of them (25%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Mount Gay among them.
- Malibu — Pernod Ricard 🇫🇷
- BOP — Goddard Enterprises 🇧🇧
- Bar Pac — Goddard Enterprises 🇧🇧
- Family Choice — Goddard Enterprises 🇧🇧
- Farmer's Choice — Goddard Enterprises 🇧🇧
- GO! — Goddard Enterprises 🇧🇧
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Mount Gay?
The parent company of Mount Gay is Rémy Cointreau, a publicly listed company headquartered in France.
Is Mount Gay Barbadian or French?
Mount Gay originated in Barbados in 1703, but it is owned today by Rémy Cointreau, which is headquartered in France. So Mount Gay is a Barbadian-origin brand under French ownership.
Is Mount Gay still owned by Rémy Cointreau?
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Mount Gay is still owned by Rémy Cointreau. 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] Rémy Cointreau Universal Registration Document 2024/25 — Rémy Cointreau SA, Annual report, published 30 June 2025; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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