Ceylon Cold Stores: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Ceylon Cold Stores (CSE: CCS.N0000) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka that owns 4 consumer brands across 3 categories and makes and sells 1 consumer brand under licence without owning the name.[1]
Ceylon Cold Stores began in 1866 as the Colombo Ice Company, founded by Arthur Von Possner around what it describes as the first ice-making machine used in the country, and took its present name in 1941. It came under John Keells Holdings in 1991 with the acquisition of the Whittalls Group, and John Keells held 70.66 per cent of it at 31 March 2026. It makes soft drinks and ice cream under Elephant House and runs the Keells supermarket chain through its wholly owned subsidiary Jaykay Marketing Services.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- Ceylon Cold Stores PLC (also CCS, Elephant House)
- Type
- publicly listed company · see all publicly listed company owners
- Headquarters
- 🇱🇰 Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Founded
- 1866
- Tickers
- CSE: CCS.N0000
- Website
- www.elephanthouse.lk
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
Ceylon Cold Stores in numbers
- Ceylon Cold Stores owns 4 consumer brands tracked here across 3 top-level categories; the largest is food with 2 brands.[1]
Everything Ceylon Cold Stores 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
Minority stakes, joint ventures and licences
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Frequently asked questions
What brands does Ceylon Cold Stores own?
Ceylon Cold Stores owns 4 consumer brands tracked here, including Elephant House, Wonder, Keells and IMORICH.
Is Ceylon Cold Stores a Sri Lankan company?
Yes. Ceylon Cold Stores is headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka and was founded in 1866.
Who owns Ceylon Cold Stores?
Ceylon Cold Stores is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as CCS.N0000 on the CSE.
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] Ceylon Cold Stores PLC Integrated Annual Report 2025/26 — Ceylon Cold Stores PLC, Annual report; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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