Who owns Schneider?
Schneider, a drinks brand, is owned by CCU (Chile, NYSE: CCU).[1]
Evidence: Compañía Cervecerías Unidas S.A. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-29, SEC EDGAR, 29 April 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Compañía Cervecerías Unidas S.A. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇱 Chile, Santiago
- Origin
- 🇦🇷 Argentina
- Category
- Beverages › Beer › Lager
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: CCU
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Schneider
Schneider is the main beer brand CCU brews in Argentina, where it has produced beer since 1995 at plants in Salta, Santa Fe and Luján. It is also the name CCU exports most, sold alongside Heineken and Imperial abroad, and has been marketed in Uruguay since the company bought its Uruguayan drinks businesses in September 2012.
What CCU's annual report says about Schneider
Sentences about Schneider from CCU's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Milotur also commercializes Schneider and Heineken beer brands, the latter due to an amendment to the trademark license agreement in force with Heineken Brouwerijen B.V.
We also distribute imported wines from VSPT (Misiones de Rengo, Finca La Celia, and Eugenio Bustos) and are licensed to distribute imported beers, including Heineken, Schneider, Imperial, Kuntsmann, Miller, Amstel, and Escudo Silver.
In Bolivia, through our subsidiary BBO, we produce and distribute beer under the brands Real, Capital, Cordillera, Uyuni, Amstel and Schneider; and carbonated soft drinks under Mendocina, Sinalco and Malta Real.
How often CCU names Schneider 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. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Schneider
Where Schneider sits in CCU
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
- Austral (50%)
- Bilz y Pap
- Cachantún (50.1%)
- Cristal
- Escudo
- Gato Negro (85.15%)
- Graffigna (85.15%)
- Isenbeck
- Kunstmann
- Levité (50.1%)
- Manantial
- Mistral (80%)
- Palermo
- Royal Guard
- Schneider
- Sidra Real
- Villavicencio (50.1%)
- Viña Tarapacá (85.15%)
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Other brands owned by CCU
CCU controls 18 brands on Brandtree, 18 of them in beverages.
Also in beverages
- Austral
- Bilz y Pap (1905)
- Cachantún (1920)
- Cristal (1978)
- Escudo (1942)
- Gato Negro
- Graffigna (1870)
- Isenbeck
- Kunstmann (1989)
- Levité
- Manantial
- Mistral
- Palermo (1897)
- Royal Guard (1974)
- Sidra Real
- Villavicencio (1904)
- Viña Tarapacá (1874)
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; CCU 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 |
| Cabro | Cervecería Centro Americana | 🇬🇹 Guatemala |
| Beermix | Obolon | 🇺🇦 Ukraine |
| Bomonti Filtresiz | Anadolu Efes | 🇹🇷 Turkey |
About the owner: CCU
CCU is a publicly listed company headquartered in Santiago, Chile, founded in 1902. Brandtree records 18 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: CCU.
Compañía Cervecerías Unidas is a Chilean multi-category beverage company whose oldest predecessor was the brewery Joaquín Plagemann opened in Valparaíso in 1850; the present company was organised by public deed in January 1902 out of a merger of two breweries. It sells beer, soft drinks, bottled water, wine, pisco, rum and cider in Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Paraguay and Uruguay, and reported more than 180 brands when it marked its 175th anniversary in 2025. Chile produces roughly two-thirds of its sales. Its controlling shareholder, IRSA, holds 65.87% of the company and is itself split evenly between Quiñenco and Heineken.
🇦🇷 Schneider and other Argentine brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 117 brands that began in Argentina. 30 of them (26%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Schneider among them.
- BC — Arcor 🇦🇷
- Bodega San Telmo — Grupo Peñaflor 🇦🇷
- Bonafide — Carozzi 🇨🇱
- Doña Paula — Viña Santa Rita 🇨🇱
- Etchart — Molinos 🇦🇷
- Finca Flichman — Sogrape 🇵🇹
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Schneider?
The parent company of Schneider is CCU, a publicly listed company headquartered in Chile.
Is Schneider Argentine or Chilean?
Schneider originated in Argentina, but it is owned today by CCU, which is headquartered in Chile. So Schneider is an Argentine-origin brand under Chilean ownership.
Is Schneider still owned by CCU?
Yes. As of 29 October 2026, Schneider is still owned by CCU. 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] Compañía Cervecerías Unidas S.A. Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-29 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 29 April 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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