Who owns this brewery?

From the archive

Labatt Breweries of Canada

VERIFIEDYESEvidence CChecked 2026-09-06

Since: 1974
Direct owner: Labatt Breweries of Canada
Ultimate parent: Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV

How Tally knows

Columbia Brewery has brewed Kokanee at Creston since 1959 and was bought by Labatt in 1974. Labatt is now a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev, so the chain has two rungs and Tally states both rather than collapsing a fifty-year-old Canadian acquisition into a later global one. The owner named is the company, Labatt Breweries of Canada, not the Labatt brewery record of a similar name.

Evidence

1 source

Columbia Brewery and Kokanee — Explore Creston Valley (accessed 2026-09-06) Proves: Kokanee brewed at Creston from 1959 and the 1974 Labatt purchase

Connections

columbia-brewery-kokaneeacquired byLabatt Breweries of Canada1974–present · C
columbia-brewery-kokaneeultimately owned byAnheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV2008–present · C

What we still don’t know

Trade reporting refers to the Creston bottling line closing. That is a site and lifecycle question, not an ownership one, and is not asserted here.
The archive holds both columbia-brewery-kokanee (companyId labatt) and columbia-brewery (parentLabel 'Labatt (AB InBev)'). Flagged, not merged — rule 10.