Royal Unibrew

Royal Unibrew is a brewing and beverage company headquartered in Faxe, Denmark. Its brands include Ceres, Faxe, Albani and Royal. Royal Unibrew also has a strong presence in the Baltic region, where it owns Vilniaus Tauras, Kalnapilis (both in Lithuania), and Lāčplēša Alus (in Latvia). As of 2018 it owns the brewery in France that produces the Lorina soft drink brand. It also brews and markets Heineken in Denmark.

This article is about the Danish brewery. For the Quebec brewery, see Unibroue.

Royal Unibrew A/S

Location	Fakse Denmark
Annual production volume	4.8 million hectolitres (4,100,000 US bbl)
Owned by	Public Nasdaq Copenhagen: RBREW
Active beers
Name Type Royal Export Royal Selection Royal Stout Stout Royal Pilsner Lager Royal Classic Lager Royal Red Lager Albani Odense Pilsner Lager Ceres Top Lager Faxe Fad Lager Thor Pilsner Lager Maribo Pilsner Lager Slots Pilsner Lager

History

The company was founded in 1989 through the merger of the breweries Faxe, Ceres and Thor under the name Bryggerigruppen. Odense-based Albani merged with the company in 2000.[1] In 2005, the name of the company was changed to Royal Unibrew.

Operations

Denmark

RoyalUnibrew is the second largest beer company in Denmark with a market share of about 25%.[1]

Baltic countries and Poland

Royal Unibrew acquired Lithuanian breweries Vilniaus Tauras and Kalnapilis in 2001 and a controlling interest in Latvian brewery Lāčplēša Alus in 2004. The company also owns the Latvian soft drink company Cido.

Royal Unibrew entered the Polish beer market with the acquisition of Browary Polskie Brok-Strzelec S.A. in April 2005.[2] It was followed by the acquisition of Browar Łomża in 2007. In December 2010, Van Pur Breweries bought the Polish branch of the Danish Royal Unibrew group.[3] In exchange, Royal Unibrew received 20% of shares of Van Pur in Poland with Van Pur retaining buyers options of the shares. In 2011 Van Pur, owned five breweries with the total production capacity of 4 million hectolitre of beer annually. October 15, 2012 Van Pur exercised its buyers option on the 20% shares previously held by Royal Unibrew for 111 PLN.[4][5][6]

France

In 2018 the soft drink brewery that produces the brand Lorina was acquired.

List of subsidiaries

Brewery	Country
Hartwall	Finland
Albani Bryggeriene A/S	Denmark
Ceres Bryggeriet	Denmark
Cido	Latvia
Etablissements Geyer Frère	France
Faxe	Denmark
Kalnapilis	Lithuania
Lāčplēša Alus	Latvia
Lemonsoda	Italy
Līvu Alus	Latvia
Maribo Bryghus	Denmark
Tauras	Lithuania
Royal Unibrew Eesti OÜ	Estonia

Royal Brand

The largest brand of Unibrew is Royal. It is based on Ceres' Ceres Royal Export and Faxe's Faxe Pilsner/Classic. Royal Export was also brewed by the other breweries in the group, but later the Pilsner and Classic were added to make a complete family of beer as is traditional in Denmark.

See also

• Beer in Denmark

References

1. "Mirakelmageren fra Faxe er klar til næste væksthop". Berlingske (in Danish). Retrieved 9 November 2015.
2. "Bryggerigruppen erhverver betydende polsk bryggeri" (in Danish). Nordea. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
3. "Royal Unibrew and Van Pur team up in Poland". Euro Investor.co.uk. Retrieved January 24, 2013.
4. Van Pur S.A. has exercised its option to purchase Royal Unibrew's shares of the company at PLN 111 million
5. "Fuzja na rynku piwa (Fusion in the beer market)" (in Polish). Republika rp.pl. Retrieved January 24, 2013.
6. "Spółki Royal Unibrew Polska i Van Pur oficjalnie połączone (The Royal Unibrew & Van Pur merger)" (in Polish). Portal Spozywczy.pl. Retrieved January 24, 2013.

External links

• Royal Unibrew corporate website.