Who owns Obolon?
Obolon is owned by Obolon Corporation (Ukraine).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Obolon Corporation presentation 2025. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Obolon Corporation reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine, Kyiv
- Origin
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine
- Founded
- 1992
- Category
- Beverages › Beer › Lager
- Trademark registrant
- PRIVATE JOINT STOCK COMPANY "OBOLON" (USPTO)
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Obolon
Obolon is the beer the corporation is named after and, by its own account, the first Ukrainian beer trademark established on the market, in 1992. The core Obolon Svitle is a 4.5 per cent pale lager brewed to 11 degrees Plato at 14 IBU. The range extends to Obolon Premium, which uses rice alongside malt and hops, an extra-strong version and an alcohol-free one, and the company began exporting it to the United States in 1990 and to China in 2011.
Trademark record for Obolon
The USPTO record for the Obolon mark lists PRIVATE JOINT STOCK COMPANY "OBOLON" as the owner of record (serial number 85626222). That name matches the owner named above.[2]
Ownership timeline of Obolon
Where Obolon sits in Obolon
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Obolon
Obolon controls 14 brands on Brandtree, 14 of them in beverages.
Also in beverages
Other brands in lager, and who owns them
The 200 brands in lager on Brandtree belong to 55 owners. The largest is AB InBev, with 17; Obolon has 6.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Aguila | AB InBev | 🇧🇪 Belgium |
| 33 Export | Heineken | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
| Allsopps | EABL | 🇰🇪 Kenya |
| Asahi Super Dry | Asahi Group | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| 333 | ThaiBev | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| Cristal | CCU | 🇨🇱 Chile |
| Cabro | Cervecería Centro Americana | 🇬🇹 Guatemala |
| Bomonti Filtresiz | Anadolu Efes | 🇹🇷 Turkey |
About the owner: Obolon
Obolon is a privately held company headquartered in Kyiv, Ukraine, founded in 1980. Brandtree records 14 brands under its control.
Obolon is the largest Ukrainian-owned beverage producer, built around a Kyiv brewery commissioned in 1980 ahead of the Moscow Olympics, designed by Czech engineers and sited for its reserves of soft water; it took the name of the surrounding Kyiv district in 1986. Staff took a capital lease on the enterprise in 1990 and it received privatisation certificate number one from the State Property Fund of Ukraine in 1992, making it the first private enterprise of independent Ukraine. The corporation today runs the main plant, two separate production units, two subsidiaries and four enterprises with corporate rights — three breweries, three plants for soft drinks, low-alcohol drinks and mineral water, and its own malting plant at Chemerivtsi — and employs about 4,000 people. It says its beer is known in more than 70 countries.
🇺🇦 Obolon and other Ukrainian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 30 brands that began in Ukraine. 10 of them (33%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Obolon is not one of them.
- Assilah — MHP 🇨🇾
- Club 4 Paws — Kormotech 🇺🇦
- Shchedryi Dar — Kernel 🇱🇺
- SkyUp — SkyUp 🇺🇦
- Bashchynsky — MHP 🇨🇾
- Delickcious — Kormotech 🇺🇦
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Obolon?
The parent company of Obolon is Obolon Corporation, a privately held company headquartered in Ukraine.
Is Obolon Ukrainian?
Yes. Obolon originated in Ukraine in 1992 and its owner, Obolon Corporation, is also headquartered in Ukraine.
Is Obolon still owned by Obolon Corporation?
Yes. As of 7 October 2026, Obolon is still owned by Obolon Corporation. 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.
- [1] Obolon Corporation presentation 2025 — Obolon Corporation, Official document; retrieved 18 September 2026.
- [2] USPTO: OBOLON, serial 85626222 — United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark registry; retrieved 7 October 2026.
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