Starbucks at Home is made and sold by Nestlé (Switzerland, SIX: NESN) under licence, an arrangement in place since 2018; Nestlé does not own the name.[1][2] The Starbucks at Home name is owned by Starbucks.
Evidence: Nestlé S.A. Annual Report 2025, 19 February 2026. Last checked .
Nestlé sells Starbucks packaged coffee, capsules and teas in supermarkets worldwide under a perpetual licence bought in 2018 for $7.15 billion. Starbucks owns the brand and runs the cafés; Nestlé makes and sells the retail products. It is one of the largest brand licensing agreements ever signed in consumer goods.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Nestlé controls 33 brands on Brandtree, 12 of them in beverages.
The 66 brands in coffee on Brandtree belong to 33 owners. The largest is Keurig Dr Pepper, with 10; Nestlé has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Douwe Egberts | Keurig Dr Pepper | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Café Caribe | Coffee Holding | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Café Barão | Melitta | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Ah Huat | Power Root | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| Barcaffè | Atlantic Grupa | 🇭🇷 Croatia |
| Carte Noire | Lavazza | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Boyds | Royal Cup | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Almendra Tropical | CasaLuker | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
Nestlé is a publicly listed company headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, founded in 1866.
Nestlé is a Swiss food and drink company formed in 1905 by the merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company with Henri Nestlé's infant food business, and traces its origins to 1866. It is the largest food company in the world by revenue and is organised around coffee, pet care, nutrition, dairy, confectionery and water.
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, Starbucks at Home among them.
Nestlé paid Starbucks $7.15 billion in cash for the perpetual right to sell Starbucks packaged coffee and tea in shops worldwide. No factories or staff transferred: the payment bought a licence, which is why the cafés and the supermarket bags now have different owners.
Nestlé makes and sells Starbucks at Home under a licensing agreement that has been in place since 2018.
No. Nestlé holds a licence to make and sell Starbucks at Home, which is not the same as owning it. The name belongs to Starbucks.
Starbucks owns the Starbucks at Home trademark. Nestlé pays to use it.
Starbucks at Home originated in the United States in 2018.
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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