Royal Unibrew

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

Royal Unibrew A/S

The logo for Royal Unibrew
Location	Fakse Denmark
Annual production volume	4.8 million hectolitres (4,100,000 US bbl)
Owner(s)	Public OMX: 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

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 well as in Poland, where it has recently purchased the Strzelec beer and Brok breweries, and most recently Browar Łomża. It also brews and markets Heineken in Denmark.

History

The company was founded in 1989 through the merger of the breweries Faxe, Veres and Thor under the name Bryggerigruppen. Odense-based Albani merged with the company in 2000. 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%.

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 market with the acquicition of Browary Polskie Brok-Strzelec S.A. in April 2005. It was followed by the acquisition of Browar Łomża in 2007.

List of subsidiaries

Brewery	Country
Hartwall	Finland
Albani Bryggeriene A/S	Denmark
Brok Browar	Poland
Browar Łomża	Poland
Ceres Bryggeriet	Denmark
Cido	Latvia
Faxe	Denmark
Kalnapilis	Lithuania
Lāčplēša Alus	Latvia
Līvu Alus	Latvia
Maribo Bryghus	Denmark
Strzelec Brewery	Poland
Tauras	Lithuania

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

External links

• Royal Unibrew corporate website.