Who owns Viva?
Viva, a drinks brand, is owned by S.M. Jaleel (Trinidad and Tobago).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: S.M. Jaleel & Co. Ltd — S.M.J Heritage, S.M. Jaleel & Company Limited. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- S.M. Jaleel & Company Limited reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago, South Oropouche
- Origin
- 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago
- Founded
- 2006
- Category
- Beverages › Soft drinks › Bottled water
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Viva
Viva is the flavoured sparkling water S.M. Jaleel launched in 2006, the same year it introduced its Oasis premium still water, giving the company two positions in a water category it had not previously competed in. Lime is among its best-known variants and it features prominently in the photographs from the company's 2024 centenary campaign, which is the clearest published evidence that it is still an active part of the range rather than a discontinued line.
Ownership timeline of Viva
- Current owner S.M. Jaleel [1] reported
Where Viva sits in S.M. Jaleel
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by S.M. Jaleel
S.M. Jaleel controls 8 brands on Brandtree, 8 of them in beverages.
Also in beverages
Other brands in bottled water, and who owns them
The 123 brands in bottled water on Brandtree belong to 74 owners. The largest is Spadel, with 5; S.M. Jaleel has 2.
About the owner: S.M. Jaleel
S.M. Jaleel is a privately held company headquartered in South Oropouche, Trinidad and Tobago, founded in 1924. Brandtree records 8 brands under its control.
S.M. Jaleel is one of the oldest and largest non-alcoholic beverage manufacturers in the English-speaking Caribbean, founded in Trinidad in 1924 by Sheikh Mohammed Jaleel and still family-controlled: his daughter Salaha Mohammed bought the failing business back into the family in 1975 and asked her son, Dr Aleem Mohammed, to abandon medicine to run it. He became chairman and chief executive in 1980 and moved the factory to the Otaheite Industrial Estate in South Trinidad, which remains the headquarters. The company pioneered PET bottling in the Caribbean in 1984, blows its own bottles directly from resin at roughly 18,000 an hour, and manufactures or distributes through subsidiaries in Barbados, Guyana, Suriname, St Lucia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and India. It marked its centenary in 2024.
🇹🇹 Viva and other Trinidad and Tobago brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 19 brands that began in Trinidad and Tobago. All of them are controlled from Trinidad and Tobago.
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- Fernandes Black Label — Angostura 🇹🇹
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Viva?
The parent company of Viva is S.M. Jaleel, a privately held company headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago.
Is Viva Trinidad and Tobago?
Yes. Viva originated in Trinidad and Tobago in 2006 and its owner, S.M. Jaleel, is also headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago.
Is Viva still owned by S.M. Jaleel?
Yes. As of 20 September 2026, Viva is still owned by S.M. Jaleel. 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] S.M. Jaleel & Co. Ltd — S.M.J Heritage — S.M. Jaleel & Company Limited, Official document; retrieved 20 September 2026.
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