NOS is owned by Monster Beverage (the United States, NASDAQ: MNST), which acquired the brand on 12 June 2015 from Coca-Cola, as part of a $1.5 billion deal that also included Full Throttle.[1][2] Before Monster Beverage, NOS was owned by Coca-Cola from 2005 to 2015.[1]
NOS is an energy drink named after nitrous oxide injection systems used in motor racing, sold in a can shaped like a gas cylinder. Monster acquired it from Coca-Cola in 2015 as part of the strategic partnership between the two companies.
What Monster Beverage's annual report says about NOS
Sentences about NOS from Monster Beverage's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
We offer the following energy drinks under the NOS product line: GT Grape, Original, Sonic Sour and Zero Sugar.
How often Monster Beverage names NOS in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central.
Monster Beverage is a publicly listed company headquartered in Corona, California, United States, founded in 1935. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: MNST.
Monster Beverage began as Hansen's, a Californian juice company founded in 1935, and transformed itself when it launched the Monster energy drink in 2002. The Coca-Cola Company holds a substantial minority stake and distributes its products, an arrangement agreed in 2015 that also transferred Coca-Cola's own energy brands to Monster.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States.
478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; NOS is not one of them.
Coca-Cola transferred its worldwide energy drink business, including NOS and Full Throttle, to Monster, and Monster handed its non-energy drinks the other way. Coca-Cola also took about 16.7% of Monster and two board seats. Monster recorded the shares issued for the energy portfolio at $1.5 billion. The effect was to divide the category between them: Coca-Cola stopped competing in energy drinks and became Monster's largest shareholder instead.
The parent company of NOS is Monster Beverage, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is NOS American?
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Yes. NOS originated in the United States in 2005 and its owner, Monster Beverage, is also headquartered in the United States.
When did Monster Beverage buy NOS?
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Monster Beverage completed its acquisition of NOS on 12 June 2015, after announcing the deal on 14 August 2014. The deal, which also included Full Throttle, was valued at $1.5 billion.
Who owned NOS before Monster Beverage?
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Before Monster Beverage, NOS was owned by Coca-Cola from 2005 until 2015.
Is NOS still owned by Monster Beverage?
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Yes. As of 9 October 2026, NOS is still owned by Monster Beverage. 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.
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