Who owns Mugg & Bean?
Mugg & Bean is owned by Famous Brands (South Africa, JSE: FBR).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Famous Brands Integrated Annual Report 2025: Our brands, Famous Brands Limited. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Famous Brands Limited reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- Origin
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- Founded
- 1996
- Category
- Restaurants & foodservice › Quick-service restaurants › Coffee & café chains
- Parent ticker
- JSE: FBR
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Mugg & Bean
Mugg & Bean is a cafe-style restaurant brand known for large meals, giant muffins and cakes, bottomless coffee and ongoing coffee innovation, with a loyalty app that earns rewards at each visit. Famous Brands dates the brand to 1996 and counts 322 restaurants in 11 markets in its 2025 integrated report, a net gain of 36 restaurants for the year.
Ownership timeline of Mugg & Bean
- Current owner Famous Brands [1] reported
Where Mugg & Bean sits in Famous Brands
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Famous Brands
Famous Brands controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 8 of them in restaurants & foodservice.
Also in restaurants & foodservice
- Coffee Couture
- Debonairs Pizza (1991)
- Fishaways (1998)
- Milky Lane (1958)
- Steers (1961)
- Turn 'n Tender
- Vovo Telo
Other brands in coffee & café chains, and who owns them
The 21 brands in coffee & café chains on Brandtree belong to 16 owners. The largest is Jollibee Group, with 4; Famous Brands has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Compose Coffee | Jollibee Group | 🇵🇭 Philippines |
| Elios Craft Cafe | BMMI | 🇧🇭 Bahrain |
| Costa Coffee | Coca-Cola | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Dutch Bros | Dutch Bros | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Dunkin' | Inspire Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Jeronymo | Jerónimo Martins | 🇵🇹 Portugal |
| Luckin Coffee | Luckin Coffee | 🇨🇳 China |
| McCafé | McDonald's | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Famous Brands
Famous Brands is a publicly listed company headquartered in South Africa. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control, and it is listed as JSE: FBR.
South African restaurant franchisor listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (travel and leisure sector) since November 1994, when it was known as Steers Holdings Limited. Its 2025 integrated report describes a portfolio of 16 restaurant brands run through franchised, master-licensed and company-owned restaurants, backed by its own manufacturing, logistics and retail operations. It holds the South African licence for PAUL from PAUL International and so does not list PAUL as its own brand. Wimpy is operated by the group, but a separate Middle East record already exists under another owner, so Wimpy is not listed here. Debonairs Pizza in Nigeria is run by the associate UAC Restaurants and is recorded separately.
Famous Brands: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇿🇦 Mugg & Bean and other South African brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 175 brands that began in South Africa. 12 of them (7%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Mugg & Bean is not one of them.
- Casa Bella — Spur Corporation 🇿🇦
- @home — TFG 🇿🇦
- Ackermans — Pepkor 🇿🇦
- Afrocentric — Sanlam 🇿🇦
- Airlink — Airlink 🇿🇦
- Albany — Tiger Brands 🇿🇦
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Mugg & Bean?
The parent company of Mugg & Bean is Famous Brands, a publicly listed company headquartered in South Africa.
Is Mugg & Bean South African?
Yes. Mugg & Bean originated in South Africa in 1996 and its owner, Famous Brands, is also headquartered in South Africa.
Is Mugg & Bean still owned by Famous Brands?
Yes. As of 4 October 2026, Mugg & Bean is still owned by Famous Brands. 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] Famous Brands Integrated Annual Report 2025: Our brands — Famous Brands Limited, Annual report; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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