Lion Brewery: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Lion Brewery (CSE: LION.N0000) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Biyagama, Sri Lanka that owns 4 consumer brands.[1]
Lion Brewery (Ceylon) PLC is a Sri Lankan brewer listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange in 1997, whose report describes its main production facility at Biyagama and traces the business back through The Ceylon Brewery Ltd to a brewery set up in 1881. Its immediate parent is Ceylon Beverage Holdings PLC, with Carson Cumberbatch PLC above it and Bukit Darah PLC as ultimate parent. Carlsberg Group took a 25 per cent holding in 1996. The company brews Carlsberg, Somersby and Guinness Stout for the local market under arrangements with those owners (it pays Carlsberg a royalty), and those brands are not listed here as Lion brands.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- Lion Brewery (Ceylon) PLC (also Lion Brewery Ceylon, LION)
- Type
- publicly listed company · see all publicly listed company owners
- Headquarters
- 🇱🇰 Biyagama, Sri Lanka
- Tickers
- CSE: LION.N0000
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
Lion Brewery in numbers
- Lion Brewery owns 4 consumer brands tracked here across 1 top-level categories; the largest is beverages with 4 brands.[1]
Everything Lion Brewery owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Frequently asked questions
What brands does Lion Brewery own?
Lion Brewery owns 4 consumer brands tracked here, including Lion Trueborn, Lion Lager, Lion Strong and Lion Stout.
Is Lion Brewery a Sri Lankan company?
Yes. Lion Brewery is headquartered in Biyagama, Sri Lanka.
Who owns Lion Brewery?
Lion Brewery is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as LION.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] Lion Brewery (Ceylon) PLC Annual Report 2025/26 — Lion Brewery (Ceylon) PLC, Annual report; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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