Who owns Tropicana?

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Tropicana is majority-owned by PAI Partners.

The company is also known as Tropicana Brands

Introduced: 1947
Country of origin: USA
Company type: Subsidiary
Owner: PAI Partners (61%), PepsiCo (39%)
Website: www.tropicana.com

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Current Ownership:

Tropicana Brands is currently majority-owned by PAI Partners, a private equity firm based in France. PepsiCo holds a 39% ownership stake after the sale in 2021, and retains exclusive distribution rights to the products in the United States.

Previous Ownership:

  • 1947: Founded by Anthony T. Rossi as Fruit Industries, Inc.
  • 1957: Renamed as Tropicana Products, Inc.
  • 1978: Beatrice Foods acquires Tropicana.
  • 1986: Tropicana becomes a part of The Seagram Company Ltd.
  • 1998: PepsiCo, Inc. acquires Tropicana from Seagram.
  • 2021: Pai Partners acquires a 61% stake in the company.

Tropicana Products


The Tropicana Brands Company produces a wide range of fruit-based beverages, primarily known for their variety of orange juices.

Their product portfolio includes the Tropicana Pure Premium line, offering several orange juice varieties with different pulp levels and added nutrients like calcium and vitamin D. The Tropicana Light series provides options with reduced sugar and calories.

They also offer Tropicana Premium Drinks, a collection of flavorful fruit juice beverages in diverse and exotic flavors. These products cater to a range of tastes and nutritional preferences, emphasizing freshness, quality, and the natural goodness of fruit.

Here are all Tropicana Products as of December 2023:

Tropicana Pure Premium

  • Original (No Pulp)
  • Homestyle (Some Pulp)
  • Grovestand (Lots of Pulp)
  • Calcium + Vitamin D (No Pulp)
  • Calcium + Vitamin D (Grovestand)
  • Low Acid (No Pulp)
  • Vitamin C + Zinc (No Pulp)
  • Orange Tangerine
  • Orange Pineapple
  • Red Grapefruit

Tropicana Light

  • No Pulp
  • No Pulp Calcium + Vitamin D
  • Some Pulp
  • Vitamin C + Zinc

Tropicana Premium Drinks

  • Peachy Pineapple Paradise
  • Pineapple Mango Splash
  • Caribbean Sunset
  • Piña Colada
  • Watermelon Breeze
  • Island Punch
  • Strawberry Peach Paradise
  • Lively Lemonade
  • Refreshingly Raspberry Lemonade
  • Zero Sugar Lively Lemonade
  • Zero Sugar Passionfruit Lemonade Escape
  • Zero Sugar Summer Splash Punch

Key Competitors

  • Simply Orange (Coca-Cola Company): A leading competitor offering a range of orange juice and other fruit juice products.
  • Minute Maid (Coca-Cola Company): Another major player in the juice market, providing a wide variety of juice flavors.
  • Florida’s Natural: A grower-owned cooperative known for their not-from-concentrate orange juice.
  • Ocean Spray: Specializes in cranberry and other fruit juice drinks, competing in the fruit beverage segment.
  • Welch’s: Known for grape juices and a variety of other fruit juice products.
  • Dole: Offers a range of packaged and canned juices, competing in the fruit juice market.