Who owns Yerba Mate Colón?
Yerba Mate Colón is owned by Colonias Unidas (Paraguay).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Cooperativa Colonias Unidas Agropec. Ind. Ltda. — Memoria Anual 2025. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Cooperativa Colonias Unidas Agropecuaria Industrial Ltda. reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇵🇾 Paraguay, Obligado
- Origin
- 🇵🇾 Paraguay, Obligado
- Category
- Beverages › Coffee, tea & hot drinks › Tea
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Yerba Mate Colón
Colón is the yerba mate brand of Colonias Unidas, drawn from member growers in Itapúa, a department whose town of Bella Vista calls itself the national capital of yerba mate. The co-operative took in 8,276 tonnes of canchada — coarse dried leaf — in the 2025 season, down on the year before because yields in the yerbales fell, and mills it into finished ground yerba at its own plant. It runs a technical assistance programme for yerba growers covering fertilisation, harvesting under the mature-branch system and rejuvenation pruning, and its 2025 annual report carries a page of new Colón products launched that year.
Ownership timeline of Yerba Mate Colón
- Current owner Colonias Unidas [1] reported
Where Yerba Mate Colón sits in Colonias Unidas
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Colonias Unidas
Colonias Unidas controls 4 brands on Brandtree.
Other brands in tea, and who owns them
The 35 brands in tea on Brandtree belong to 21 owners. The largest is Orimi Trade, with 6.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Gita | Orimi Trade | 🇷🇺 Russia |
| Fahari Ya Kenya | Ketepa | 🇰🇪 Kenya |
| Ran Kahata | Sunshine Holdings | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka |
| Five Roses | AVI | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| ITO EN Matcha Green Tea | ITO EN | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Piala Gold | RG Brands | 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan |
| Tata Tea | Tata Consumer | 🇮🇳 India |
| Good Nature | Alkaloid | 🇲🇰 North Macedonia |
About the owner: Colonias Unidas
Colonias Unidas is a cooperative headquartered in Obligado, Paraguay, founded in 1953. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control.
Colonias Unidas is a multi-active agro-industrial co-operative based in Obligado, in the Itapúa department of southern Paraguay, and the most important co-operative in the country's south-east. It was founded by 78 farmers from Hohenau, Obligado and Bella Vista, who formed an organising committee on 16 November 1952, approved statutes at a constituent assembly on 8 March 1953 and were officially recognised on 21 April 1953 as the Sociedad Cooperativa Colonias Unidas Agrícola Limitada. It has roughly 4,000 active members and 1,800 permanent employees, rising to about 1,900 in harvest season. Its business units run the whole chain — technical assistance and inputs for members, then collection, industrial processing and sale of what they grow — across soy oil and pellets, dairy, yerba mate, seeds, animal feed, a supermarket and hypermarket, service stations, an agro-industrial laboratory and a prepaid medical service.
Colonias Unidas: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇵🇾 Yerba Mate Colón and other Paraguayan brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 10 brands that began in Paraguay. 2 of them (20%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Yerba Mate Colón is not one of them.
- Ferrex — Corporación Favorita 🇪🇨
- FrigoChorti — Chortitzer 🇵🇾
- LATAM Airlines Paraguay — LATAM 🇨🇱
- Paranair — Paranair 🇵🇾
- Supermercados Chortitzer — Chortitzer 🇵🇾
- Trébol — Chortitzer 🇵🇾
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Yerba Mate Colón?
The parent company of Yerba Mate Colón is Colonias Unidas, a cooperative headquartered in Paraguay.
Is Yerba Mate Colón Paraguayan?
Yes. Yerba Mate Colón originated in Paraguay and its owner, Colonias Unidas, is also headquartered in Paraguay.
Is Yerba Mate Colón still owned by Colonias Unidas?
Yes. As of 20 September 2026, Yerba Mate Colón is still owned by Colonias Unidas. 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] Cooperativa Colonias Unidas Agropec. Ind. Ltda. — Memoria Anual 2025 — Cooperativa Colonias Unidas, Annual report; retrieved 20 September 2026.
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