Wild Turkey is owned by Campari Group (the Netherlands, BIT: CPR), which acquired the brand on 29 May 2009 for $575 million.[1][2] Wild Turkey was founded in 1940 in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky and was independent until 2009.
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Davide Campari-Milano N.V. Annual Report 2025, 4 March 2026. Last checked .
Wild Turkey is a Kentucky bourbon named after a hunting trip on which an executive shared a barrel sample, and it is bottled at a higher proof than most competitors. Campari acquired the distillery from Pernod Ricard in 2009 for $575 million.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Campari Group controls 7 brands on Brandtree, 7 of them in beverages.
The 71 brands in whisky & bourbon on Brandtree belong to 26 owners. The largest is Diageo, with 9.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Buchanan's | Diageo | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Black Velvet | Heaven Hill | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Blood Oath | MGP | 🇺🇸 United States |
| anCnoc | ThaiBev | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| Jura | Emperador | 🇵🇭 Philippines |
| Hibiki | Suntory | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Glenfiddich | William Grant & Sons | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Jack Daniel's | Brown-Forman | 🇺🇸 United States |
Campari Group is a publicly listed company headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1860. Brandtree records 7 brands under its control, and it is listed as BIT: CPR.
Campari Group traces to a Milan café in 1860 where Gaspare Campari made the bitter aperitif that carries his name. It grew from one product into the sixth-largest spirits group in the world by buying brands rather than building them, and the Garavoglia family retains control through a Dutch holding structure.
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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, Wild Turkey among them.
Campari acquired Wild Turkey from Pernod Ricard for about $575 million, giving the Italian group a Kentucky bourbon distillery. Pernod was selling assets it had taken on with Absolut the year before.
The parent company of Wild Turkey is Campari Group, a publicly listed company headquartered in the Netherlands.
Wild Turkey originated in the United States in 1940, but it is owned today by Campari Group, which is headquartered in the Netherlands. So Wild Turkey is an American-origin brand under Dutch ownership.
Campari Group completed its acquisition of Wild Turkey on 29 May 2009, after announcing the deal on 8 April 2009. The deal was valued at $575 million (enterprise value).
Wild Turkey was an independent company from its founding in 1940 in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky until Campari Group acquired it in 2009.
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Wild Turkey is still owned by Campari Group. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
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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