Budweiser Budvar

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Budějovický Budvar np

logo
legal form np (state enterprise)
founding 1895
Seat Budweis , Czech Republic
management Petr Dvořák (since 2017)
Number of employees 653 (2015)
Branch brewery
Website http://www.budejovickybudvar.cz/de/index.html

Budweiser Budvar (Czech Budějovický Budvar pronunciation ? / I ) is a beer brand of the Budějovický Budvar np brewery based in Budweis , Czech Republic . In 2015, 1.602 million hectoliters of beer were brewed. Budvar is an acronym of the Czech expression budějovický pivovar for "Budweiser Brewery". Audio file / audio sample

history

A bottle of Budweiser Budvar
Brewery building

The brewery was founded in 1895 in Budweis by Czech brewers ( August Zátka and others) as a joint stock brewery Český akciový pivovar , in competition with the Budweiser Bürgerbräu from the Budweis civil brewery, which was founded in 1795 and was mainly owned by German-speaking citizens. At the end of the 19th century Budweiser (like Pilsner ) was also a popular sales name in America, the rights of use of which were disputed between the local and the American company Anheuser Busch from 1907 ( Budweiser dispute ). They agreed to only offer their products as Budweiser on their home continent . After 1945 the two Czech companies were nationalized.

In 2002, Budvar Brewery succeeded in re-entering the US and Canadian markets after 62 years. Because of the trademark rights of Anheuser Busch, the beer is sold there under the Czechvar brand. The brewery is currently a state-owned company. However, it has been planned for a long time to convert the company into a stock corporation and privatize it.

The Budvar brand is a beer based on the original Budweiser brewing method, which is exported worldwide (to over 60 countries). The subsidiary responsible for import and marketing in Germany is based in Erfurt, Thuringia . In Austria the beer is imported by Kolarik & Leeb and sold in large quantities in the Schweizerhaus and in the Luftburg - bars in Vienna's Prater that are run by the Kolarik family.

Budweiser , Budweiser Budvar , Budvar and Budweiser Budvar are in Germany, Czech Republic and Austria trademarks . In the Czech Republic itself, the beer is known as Budvar .

In July 2010 the European Court of Justice finally ruled that Anheuser-Busch could not have its “Budweiser” trademark protected in the EU because the Czech brewery had the older rights to the name and already legally owned the trademark rights in some EU countries from Budějovický Budvar are.

Types of beer

Brewhouse of the Budweiser Brewery
  • Budweiser Budvar Original - lager beer , light (5.0% alcohol by volume, 11.9% original wort content )
  • Budvar Výčepní - light draft beer (4.0 percent alcohol by volume, 10% original wort content)
  • Budvar 33 - lager beer, dark (4.6% alcohol by volume, 11.9% original wort content)
  • Budvar Dark Lager - lager beer, dark (4.7% alcohol by volume, 11.9% original wort content)
  • Budvar Kroužek - yeast lager beer (5.0% alcohol by volume, 11.9% original wort content)
  • Bud B: STRONG - strong beer , light (7.5 percent alcohol by volume, 16% original wort content)
  • Budvar Nealko - alcohol-free beer (max. 0.5 volume percent alcohol content)
  • Budvar CVIKL - Zwickelbier , naturally cloudy (4.0 percent alcohol by volume)
  • Pardál Echt - Light Lager (4.5 percent alcohol by volume, 11% original wort content)
  • Pardál - light draft beer (3.8 percent alcohol by volume)
  • PardálOVO Bezové - mixed beer drink (2.0 percent alcohol by volume)

literature

  • Winfried Dimmel: The Budweiser Aktienbrauerei and the construction of the National. Brewing industry in the field of tension between economic nationalism and cutthroat competition. In: Writings on social and economic history. Volume 29. Hamburg 2017. ISBN 978-3-8300-9298-8 , 197 pages.
  • Ivo Hajn: Budweiser Budvar in the new millennium. Jihoceske tiskarny. 2002.
  • Ivo Hajn, Jana Doleželová (translation): Budweiser Budvar: (1895–2015). 2015, 159 pages.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Novym ředitelem Budvaru bude Petr Dvořák, který dříve pracoval v Prazdroji. April 24, 2017, on idnes.cz (Czech).
  2. ↑ Budějovický Budvar zveřejnil výsledky za rok 2015. August 1, 2016, on ceskenapoje.cz (Czech).
  3. ^ Budweiser Budvar, National Corporation: Business successes on budejovickybudvar.cz, accessed on July 8, 2016.
  4. ↑ Court of Justice of the European Union: Press Release No. 77/10. Judgment in Case C-214/09 P Anheuser-Busch Inc. v OHIM and Budějovický Budvar, národni podnik. Luxembourg July 29, 2010, on europa.eu ( PDF; 124 kB ).

Web links

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