Who owns Vimto (Cameroun)?
Vimto (Cameroun) is made and sold by Boissons du Cameroun (Cameroon) under licence; Boissons du Cameroun does not own the name.[1] The Vimto name is owned by Nichols International.
Evidence: Boissons du Cameroun — notre histoire, Société Anonyme des Brasseries du Cameroun. Last checked .
Key facts
- Licensed to
- Société Anonyme des Brasseries du Cameroun reported
- Headquarters
- 🇨🇲 Cameroon, Douala
- Origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Category
- Beverages › Soft drinks › Juice & juice drinks
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Vimto (Cameroun)
Vimto is made in Cameroon by Boissons du Cameroun under licence from Nichols International, which the company states owns the brand; it inherited the arrangement from Brasserie SIAC Isenbeck, the subsidiary it took on in a partnership with the Warsteiner group. The Cameroonian version is produced from natural extracts of bissap, raspberry and other fruits, and is sold as a ready-to-drink soft drink.
Ownership timeline of Vimto (Cameroun)
Where Vimto (Cameroun) sits in Boissons du Cameroun
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Boissons du Cameroun
Boissons du Cameroun controls 11 brands on Brandtree, 11 of them in beverages.
Also in beverages
- Aquabelle
- Beaufort Lager (1952)
- Beaufort Light (2005)
- Booster
- Chill (Cameroun)
- Manyan
- Source Tangui
- Top (1974)
- Vitale (2017)
- Youzou (Cameroun) (2022)
Other brands in juice & juice drinks, and who owns them
The 138 brands in juice & juice drinks on Brandtree belong to 81 owners. The largest is Eckes-Granini, with 11.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Brämhults | Eckes-Granini | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Apple & Eve | Lassonde | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Appletiser | Coca-Cola | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Kagome Tomato Juice | Kagome | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Fructal | Nectar Group | 🇷🇸 Serbia |
| All Coco | Sappe | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| Amayu | AJE | 🇵🇪 Peru |
| Kiddy Pack | Kasapreko | 🇬🇭 Ghana |
About the owner: Boissons du Cameroun
Boissons du Cameroun is a privately held company headquartered in Douala, Cameroon, founded in 1948.
Boissons du Cameroun, formally the Société Anonyme des Brasseries du Cameroun, was founded in Douala on 3 February 1948 by Les Brasseries et Glacières d'Indochine, the company that became BGI and was itself bought by the Castel group in 1990. It brewed the first beer made in Cameroon, Bull Beer, and describes itself today as the leader of the country's brewing industry and the state's second largest taxpayer after the oil sector. The SABC group it heads runs five factories making beer, soft drinks, energy drinks and alcohol mixes, the Socaver glassworks and SEMC, which bottles mineral water. It signed a Coca-Cola bottling contract in the 1960s, producing Coca-Cola from 1963, Sprite from 1971 and Fanta from 1972; no Coca-Cola brand appears among the drinks it lists today, and its cola is World Cola, which it says is sold in fourteen sub-Saharan African countries.
Boissons du Cameroun: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇬🇧 Vimto (Cameroun) and other British brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 543 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 282 of them (52%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Vimto (Cameroun) among them.
- Badger — Hall & Woodhouse 🇬🇧
- Balblair — ThaiBev 🇹🇭
- Beefeater — Pernod Ricard 🇫🇷
- Bishops Finger — Shepherd Neame 🇬🇧
- Bombay Sapphire — Bacardi 🇧🇲
- Boost — A.G. Barr 🇬🇧
Frequently asked questions
Who makes Vimto (Cameroun)?
Boissons du Cameroun makes and sells Vimto (Cameroun) under a licensing agreement.
Does Boissons du Cameroun own Vimto (Cameroun)?
No. Boissons du Cameroun holds a licence to make and sell Vimto (Cameroun), which is not the same as owning it.
Where did Vimto (Cameroun) come from?
Vimto (Cameroun) originated in the United Kingdom.
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] Boissons du Cameroun — notre histoire — Société Anonyme des Brasseries du Cameroun, Official document; retrieved 27 September 2026.
- [2] Boissons du Cameroun — nos marques: boissons gazeuses — Société Anonyme des Brasseries du Cameroun, Official document; retrieved 27 September 2026.
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