Who owns Smart Cola?
Smart Cola is owned by Obolon (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
- Category
- Beverages › Soft drinks › Cola
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Smart Cola
Smart Cola is Obolon's cola, made with natural lemon juice and formulated without the phosphoric acid and caffeine that the standard recipe for the category relies on. The company says it keeps the classic cola taste in spite of leaving both out. It sits in a soft drinks line that also carries a nostalgic series, Sitro and Lemonade, made to old Soviet-era flavour profiles of fruit caramel.
Ownership timeline of Smart Cola
Where Smart Cola 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 cola, and who owns them
The 23 brands in cola on Brandtree belong to 12 owners. The largest is Coca-Cola, with 5.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Coca-Cola | Coca-Cola | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Coca-Cola Almaty Bottlers | Coca-Cola İçecek | 🇹🇷 Turkey |
| Diet Pepsi | PepsiCo | 🇺🇸 United States |
| BIG Cola | AJE | 🇵🇪 Peru |
| Hamoud Cola | Hamoud Boualem | 🇩🇿 Algeria |
| Kofola | Kofola | 🇨🇿 Czech Republic |
| Jolly Cola | Olvi | 🇫🇮 Finland |
| Maxx Cola | PRAN-RFL | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh |
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.
🇺🇦 Smart Cola 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; Smart Cola 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 Smart Cola?
The parent company of Smart Cola is Obolon, a privately held company headquartered in Ukraine.
Is Smart Cola Ukrainian?
Yes. Smart Cola originated in Ukraine and its owner, Obolon, is also headquartered in Ukraine.
Is Smart Cola still owned by Obolon?
Yes. As of 18 September 2026, Smart Cola is still owned by Obolon. 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] Obolon Corporation presentation 2025 — Obolon Corporation, Official document; retrieved 18 September 2026.
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