Who owns Munchee?
Munchee is owned by CBL Group (Sri Lanka).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: CBL Group: Our Products and brands. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- CBL Investments Limited reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka, Pannipitiya
- Origin
- 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
- Founded
- 1960
- Category
- Food › Snacks › Cookies & crackers
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Munchee
Munchee is CBL Group's biscuit and cracker brand. According to the group's history, Williams Confectionery introduced a range of wafers under the Munchee name in 1960, and Ceylon Biscuits Limited put out its first Munchee biscuits, including Hawaiian Cookies and Milk Short Cake, in 1968. The range now covers sweet, cracker, savoury, cream and wafer biscuits, such as Super Cream Cracker, Tikiri Marie, Lemon Puff and Kurakkan Cracker.
Ownership timeline of Munchee
Where Munchee sits in CBL Group
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by CBL Group
CBL Group controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 8 of them in food.
Also in food
Other brands in cookies & crackers, and who owns them
The 137 brands in cookies & crackers on Brandtree belong to 55 owners. The largest is Valeo Foods, with 13.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Andante | Valeo Foods | 🇮🇪 Ireland |
| belVita | Mondelēz | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Choco Mucho | Rebisco | 🇵🇭 Philippines |
| Eti Burçak | Eti | 🇹🇷 Turkey |
| emNAU | Paradise Foods | 🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea |
| Fortaleza | M. Dias Branco | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Biskrem | Ülker Bisküvi | 🇹🇷 Turkey |
| Bourbon | Britannia | 🇮🇳 India |
About the owner: CBL Group
CBL Group is a privately held company headquartered in Pannipitiya, Sri Lanka, founded in 1968. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control.
CBL Group is a Sri Lankan food manufacturer whose operating company, Ceylon Biscuits Limited, began production on 28 July 1968 at Pannipitiya, growing out of the Williams Confectionery biscuit business founded in 1939 by Simon (Arthur) Wickramasingha. CBL Investments Limited was set up in 2017 as the group's holding company. Its own history page says it has factories in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Ghana as well as Sri Lanka, and lists acquisitions such as 70 per cent of Soy Foods Limited (2000), 60 per cent of Cecil Foods (2004) and 80 per cent of Plenty Foods (2006). It also manufactured Huntley and Palmers biscuits under a partnership with Associated Biscuits that ended in the late 1980s.
🇱🇰 Munchee and other Sri Lankan brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 53 brands that began in Sri Lanka. 1 of them (2%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Munchee is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Munchee?
The parent company of Munchee is CBL Group, a privately held company headquartered in Sri Lanka.
Is Munchee Sri Lankan?
Yes. Munchee originated in Sri Lanka in 1960 and its owner, CBL Group, is also headquartered in Sri Lanka.
Is Munchee still owned by CBL Group?
Yes. As of 4 October 2026, Munchee is still owned by CBL Group. 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] CBL Group: Our Products and brands — CBL Group, Official document; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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