Švyturys-Utenos alus

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Švyturys-Utenos alus
legal form Corporation
founding 1784
Seat Klaipėda , Lithuania
management Rolandas Viršilas
Number of employees around 2000 ( 2005 )
sales 128.3 million euros ( 2011 )
Branch brewery

Bottle and glass with logo
Share over 100 Thaler of the Memeler Aktien-Brauerei & Distillation from September 15, 1871

Švyturys-Utenos alus is the largest brewery group in Lithuania . Their market share in 2004 was 49.5%. In 2011 the company achieved sales of 442.960 million litas .

history

Švyturys was founded as the Reincke Brewery in Memel in 1784 by the Memel merchant J. W. Reincke (according to other sources: Fr. W. Reinecke) at Mühlendammstrasse 23/25.

In 1871 the brewery was converted into a joint stock company, the Memeler Aktien-Brauerei & Distillation .

It became Lithuanian in 1923 and came under German administration again in 1939. In 1940 it was taken over by the Memeler Ostquell brewery . After the Second World War this was taken over by the Soviets and in 1990 it became Lithuanian again and was named Švyturys ( German  lighthouse ).

Utenos alus was founded in 1977 in Utena , Upper Lithuania .

The two breweries merged in 2001 to form a joint stock company. In February 2003 the company was converted into a limited stock corporation. Švyturys-Utenos is owned by Baltic Beverages Holding . In 2011 the company had a turnover of around 130 million euros with around 2,000 employees, making it the largest brewery in Lithuania.

The brand names of the individual breweries Švyturys and Utenos will be continued. In addition, the brewery is the only one that brews under license from the Danish Carlsberg brewery . The traditional "Memelbräu" beer is produced in Utena.

sorts

Švyturys

The following beers are sold under the Švyturys brand:

  • Ekstra, an export beer with 5.2% alcohol content
  • Premium pilsner with 3.9% alcohol content
  • Ekstra Draft, an unpasteurized draft beer sold in bottles with an alcohol content of 5.2%
  • Švyturio, a light beer with 5 percent alcohol by volume
  • Gintarinis, a pilsner with 4.7% alcohol
  • Originalusis, a dark light beer with 0.5% alcohol content
  • Stipriausias, a strong beer with 8% alcohol content
  • Baltijos, a Märzen
  • Baltas, a light wheat beer with 5.2% vol. Alcohol content
  • Degintas, a black beer with 5.5% alcohol content
  • Adler Bock, a bock beer
  • Nealkoholinis, a non- alcoholic beer

Utenos

Utenos sells the following beers, among others:

  • Utenos
  • Utenos Ice, a 4.5 alcohol percent ice beer
  • Auksinis, a lager with 5% alcohol
  • Utenos DLight, a light lager with 2.9% alcohol
  • Utenos Pils, a pilsner with 4.7% alcohol
  • Stiprusis, a strong beer with 7.5% alcohol
  • Porteris, a Baltic Porter style beer (a type of ale )

Web links

Commons : Švyturys beer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nov-ost.info
  2. ↑ Sales ( Memento from November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b c Kulturzentrum Ostpreußen (ed.): Beer and breweries in East Prussia then and now . Self-published, Ellingen 2017, p. 24 .

Coordinates: 55 ° 30 ′ 14.1 ″  N , 25 ° 38 ′ 15.6 ″  E