Who owns KRONENBOURG BEER?

KRONENBOURG BEER is owned by

CARLSBERG GROUP

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Kronenbourg is a beer brand that was created in 1664 by Geronimus Hatt in the city of Strasbourg, France (then part of the Holy Roman Empire). Hatt was the son of a dyer, and a member of the cooper’s guild before obtaining his Master’s degree in brewing. He rented what was originally known as the Canon Brewery and began making his beer there, before purchasing the brewery outright in 1669. When his son Claude succeeded him in 1683, the brewery changed its name to Hatt Brewery. In 1850, the company moved the brewery to the Cronenbourg neighborhood of Strasbourg to avoid frequent flooding from the river Ill. The move also allowed the brewery to take advantage of the deep caves in the area, which encouraged the company to shift towards cold fermented lager brewing.

After acquiring the Tiger Brewery, it renamed again to Tiger Bock in 1922. The acquisition made the company the largest brewer in the Alsace region. When World War II end and Alsace was returned to French control, the brewery finally changed its name to Kronenbourg. The company uses the German spelling of the neighborhood, which highlights its brewing roots in German tradition.

In 1970 Kronenbourg was acquired by industrial group BSN (later known as Danone), which merged it with Kanterbräu in 1986. The British company Scottish & Newcastle purchased Kronenbourg in 2000 for £1.7 billion, and in 2008 Heineken and Carlsberg formed a joint venture to purchase Scottish & Newcastle’s assets and divide them up. Kronenbourg went to Carlsberg, which owns the brand to this day.

Kronenbourg currently has a 30% market share within France. One out of three beers in the country are now brewed at Carlsberg’s main French brewery in Obernai.

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