Boissons du Cameroun: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Boissons du Cameroun is a privately held company headquartered in Douala, Cameroon that owns 10 consumer brands and makes and sells 1 consumer brand under licence without owning the name.[1]
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.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- Société Anonyme des Brasseries du Cameroun (also SABC, Groupe SABC, Les Brasseries du Cameroun)
- Type
- privately held company · see all privately held company owners
- Headquarters
- 🇨🇲 Douala, Cameroon
- Founded
- 1948
- Website
- boissonsducameroun.com
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
Boissons du Cameroun in numbers
- Boissons du Cameroun owns 10 consumer brands tracked here across 1 top-level categories; the largest is beverages with 10 brands.[1]
Everything Boissons du Cameroun owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Brand portfolio by category
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Minority stakes, joint ventures and licences
- Vimto (Cameroun) — licensee 100%[1]Made and sold under licence; the Vimto name is owned by Nichols International.
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Frequently asked questions
What brands does Boissons du Cameroun own?
Boissons du Cameroun owns 10 consumer brands tracked here, including Source Tangui, Top, Youzou (Cameroun), Beaufort Lager, Manyan and Aquabelle.
Is Boissons du Cameroun a Cameroonian company?
Yes. Boissons du Cameroun is headquartered in Douala, Cameroon and was founded in 1948.
Who owns Boissons du Cameroun?
Boissons du Cameroun is privately held. 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.
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] Boissons du Cameroun — notre histoire — Société Anonyme des Brasseries du Cameroun, Official document; retrieved 27 September 2026.
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