Cervecería Centro Americana: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Cervecería Centro Americana is a privately held company headquartered in Guatemala City, Guatemala that owns 6 consumer brands.[1]
Cervecería Centro Americana is Guatemala's oldest industrial company, founded in 1886 by the brothers Mariano and Rafael Castillo Córdova, who brought German brewmasters to the Finca El Zapote in Guatemala City to industrialise a trade that had been done by hand. It launched Gallo, still its leading beer, in 1896, bought the Cervecería Nacional de Quetzaltenango in 1929 and became a sociedad anónima in 1946. It remains controlled by the founding family, and alongside its own beers it sells Heineken, Bohemia, Tecate and Carta Blanca, which it brews or imports under licence rather than owns.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- Cervecería Centro Americana, S.A. (also Cerveceria Centro Americana, CCA)
- Type
- privately held company · see all privately held company owners
- Headquarters
- 🇬🇹 Guatemala City, Guatemala
- Founded
- 1886
- Website
- cerveceriacentroamericana.com
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
Cervecería Centro Americana in numbers
- Cervecería Centro Americana owns 6 consumer brands tracked here across 1 top-level categories; the largest is beverages with 6 brands.[1]
Everything Cervecería Centro Americana 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
Cervecería Centro Americana in the global legal-entity registry
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) keeps an open register of legal entities. Each entity reports its own parents. We show it as a cross-check on the ownership recorded on this page, which is built from filings.
- Legal entity identifier (LEI)
- 549300N41013X3RIM856
- Registered name
- Cerveceria Centro Americana, S.A. (GT)
- Registration status
- Lapsed · record updated 4 August 2023
- Parent
- None named: its parent has no LEI.
- Retrieved
- · GLEIF record (JSON)
Frequently asked questions
What brands does Cervecería Centro Americana own?
Cervecería Centro Americana owns 6 consumer brands tracked here, including Gallo, Moza, Monte Carlo, Dorada, Victoria and Cabro.
Is Cervecería Centro Americana a Guatemalan company?
Yes. Cervecería Centro Americana is headquartered in Guatemala City, Guatemala and was founded in 1886.
Who owns Cervecería Centro Americana?
Cervecería Centro Americana is privately held. Cervecería Centro Americana is Guatemala's oldest industrial company, founded in 1886 by the brothers Mariano and Rafael Castillo Córdova, who brought German brewmasters to the Finca El Zapote in Guatemala City to industrialise a trade that had been done by hand.
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] Cervecería Centro Americana — Cervezas — Cervecería Centro Americana, S.A., Official document; retrieved 17 September 2026.
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