Kulmbacher brewery
| Kulmbacher Brewery Aktien-Gesellschaft
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | DE0007007007 |
| founding | 1846 |
| Seat |
Kulmbach , Germany
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| Number of employees | 927 |
| sales | 231.7 million euros |
| Branch | brewery |
| Website | www.kulmbacher-brauerei-ag.de |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
The Kulmbacher Brauerei Aktien-Gesellschaft , based in Kulmbach, is a German brewery company that was founded in 1846 as Reichelbräu by Johann W. Reichel, Johann K. Scheiding and Johann M. Hübner. In 1895 it was converted into a stock company.
history
The company has expanded since 1980, with the Sandlerbräu and Mönchshof-Bräu companies adding further beer brands to the range in 1980 and 1984 .
In 1986 the Schörghuber Group took over 49.9% of the share capital. In 1987 the production of Kapuziner wheat beer began. In the 1990s, the Sternquell Brewery Plauen, the Braustolz Brewery Chemnitz , the Ersten Kulmbacher Aktienbrauerei (EKU) and a majority stake in Bad Brambacher Mineralquellen were taken over. EKU, Reichel, Sandler and Mönchshof have been united in the Kulmbacher Brewery AG since 1996. After Erste Kulmbacher Actienbrauerei Aktiengesellschaft went bankrupt , the business operations were transferred to Markgrafenbräu GmbH and renamed Kulmbacher EKU Brauerei GmbH .
In 1996 and 1997, Kulmbacher achieved nationwide fame through “The Long Kulmbacher Film Night”. This consisted of three consecutive commercial-free Hollywood films on the private television station SAT1 . The format was moderated by Thomas Gottschalk .
In 2002 the beverage output exceeded three million hectoliters for the first time after commissioning a new clip lock system and filter system.
In 2002 the Coburg breweries Sturm and Scheidmantel were taken over. They were merged to form the Coburg brewery, but the beers from Sturm and Scheidmantel were then sold under their own names for a few years.
Since 2003, with the private brewery Scherdel in Hof and the majority of shares (90.7%) in Würzburger Hofbräu AG , two companies have again been integrated into the Kulmbacher Group.
The Kulmbacher Brauerei AG has the city coat of arms in its company logo. The Reichelbräu was approved by the Kulmbach city council in 1926. Six years later, the first Reichelbräu Edelherb appeared on the German market.
Kulmbacher has been the official beer of 1. FC Nürnberg since the 2006/2007 season and can be served in the Max Morlock Stadium . The brewery also acquired the advertising rights and is allowed to advertise with the association. The brewery organizes the Kulmbacher Beer Week (also known as the Kulmbacher Beer Festival), which attracts 100,000 visitors every year. The beer week is organized by the city of Kulmbach and the Kulmbacher brewery. The first Kulmbach Beer Week took place in 1939. It was initially organized by the Kulmbacher Verkehrsverband, who wanted to use this campaign to advertise the city and its achievements in the food industry such as beer and sausage products.
On 6 . May 2009 at around 1.30 p.m. during demolition work in the storage cellar of the Kulmbacher brewery, a major fire broke out . At the beginning of April 2009 it was decided to demolish the 44 meter high tower of the former EKU brewery in EKU Street, built in 1968 . The cause of the fire was flexible work that initially led to a light fire that could not be extinguished immediately. 17 people were injured in the fire, 13 of whom suffered smoke inhalation . The burned-out building was later demolished.
With effect from January 12, 2010, the shares were no longer listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange . With effect from November 30, 2010, the listing in the regulated market of the Munich Stock Exchange followed . Since then, the company's shares have been listed in the m: access segment of the Munich Stock Exchange.
Markus Stodden has been the spokesman for the Executive Board since January 1, 2013 and is responsible for sales and marketing. Mathias Keil has been appointed to the Supervisory Board on October 1, 2018 and is responsible for finance and technology.
In 2015 the trademark rights of the insolvent Brauhaus Schweinfurt were taken over, three years later (September 2018) the Kulmbacher took over the trademark rights of the traditional Erlangen brewery Kitzmann .
Company data
Kulmbacher Brauerei AG is majority owned (63.8%) by the Paulaner Group . The second largest shareholder with 25.8% is the Kulmbacher Ireks group.
Group structure
The Kulmbacher Group sold a total of almost 3.2 million hectoliters of beverages in 2016 :
In the consolidated balance sheet for 2016, the following 14 subsidiaries were included in the scope of consolidation (in brackets the percentages of the participation by Kulmbacher Brauerei AG):
- Bad Brambacher Mineralquellen GmbH & Co. Betriebs KG, Bad Brambach (85%)
- Braustolz GmbH , Chemnitz (100%) The brewery in Chemnitz has been closed since 2017. The Braustolz brand will be brewed and bottled in Plauen with immediate effect.
- Soft drinks Union Kulmbacher Gruppe GmbH, Kulmbach (100%)
- Beverages Logistics SQ GmbH, Plauen
- Keiler Bier GmbH, Lohr am Main (100%)
- Kulmbacher Getränke Beteiligungs-GmbH & Co. KG, Kulmbach (100%)
- Markgrafen-Getränkeevertrieb-GmbH, Kulmbach (100%)
- Markgrafen Heimdienst GmbH, Kulmbach (100%)
- Scherdel Bier GmbH & Co. KG, Hof (100%)
- Sternla Bier GmbH, Würzburg (100%)
- Sternquell-Brauerei GmbH, Plauen (100%)
- Vogtländische Getränkeindustrie GmbH, Bad Brambach (100%)
- Würzburger Hofbräu GmbH, Würzburg (100%)
- Kitzmann Brewery , Erlangen (100%)
In addition, the following minority interest was valued at equity in the balance sheet:
- Bürgerliches Brauhaus Saalfeld GmbH, Saalfeld (23%)
Eight other companies were not consolidated due to their minor importance.
Others
At the annual general meeting for the 2007 financial year there was a scandal with representatives of the majority shareholder Brau Holding International present . In a meeting of the supervisory board shortly afterwards, it was decided to replace the two board members Jürgen Brinkmann (CEO) and Stephan Gimpel-Henning (board member for technology) by Peter Pöschl and Hans P. van Zon with effect from June 4, 2008. Initially, no new chairman was appointed under the new three-person board (Markus Stodden remained on the board).
sorts
In addition to light and alcohol-free beers, the following types are produced, mostly in 0.5 l bottles:
- Kulmbacher Edelherb
- Kulmbacher Gold (0.33 l)
- Kulmbacher Eisbock (0.33 l)
- Kulmbach warehouse
- Kulmbacher festival beer
- Kulmbacher export
- Kulmbacher fine mild
- Kulmbacher Radler with lime
- Mönchshof cellar beer
- Mönchshof Kulmquell
- Mönchshof camp
- Mönchshof country beer
- Mönchshof Original
- Mönchshof black beer
- Mönchshof Bock beer
- Mönchshof Maibock
- Mönchshof Historical Märzen
- Mönchshof Christmas beer
- Mönchshof museum beer
- Mönchshof festival beer
- Mönchshof Bayerisch Hell
- Mönchshof nature cyclists
- Mönchshof Original Naturtrüb's alcohol-free
- Mönchshof Zoigl
- EKU Pils
- EKU Hell
- EKU export
- EKU festival beer
- EKU 28 (strong beer; 0.33 l)
- EKU cyclists
- Kapuziner wheat beer
- Capuchin cellar wheat
- Kapuziner wheat beer crystal
- Kapuziner wheat beer dark
- Kapuziner winter wheat beer
- Kapuziner wheat beer light
- Kapuziner wheat beer alcohol-free
- Kapuziner wheat beer shandy
Kulmbacher beer is a geographical indication protected by the EU .
literature
- Helmut Geiger: Culmbacher, Kulmbacher across all borders - how Kulmbach became beer town. Guttenberg 2013, 216 pages, ISBN 978-3-00-043038-1
- Helmut Geiger: Kulmbacher beer history (s) - historical, worth knowing, interesting, entertaining, funny and bizarre from more than 15 decades of brewery past in the beer town of Kulmbach. Guttenberg 2012, 204 pages, ISBN 978-3-00-039414-0
- Helmut Geiger: About brewing beer in the Kulmbach district. Guttenberg 2011, 209 pages, ISBN 978-3-00-033612-6
Web links
- Website of the Kulmbacher Brewery Aktien-Gesellschaft
- Website of the subsidiary Kulmbacher Mönchshof-Bräu GmbH
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the Kulmbacher Brewery in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
- Table of contents by Culmbacher, Kulmbacher across all borders - like Kulmbach Bierstadt was by Helmut Geiger , accessed on February 7, 2020
- Table of contents of Kulmbacher beer history (s) - historical, worth knowing, interesting, entertaining, funny and bizarre from more than 15 decades of brewery past in the beer town of Kulmbach by Helmut Geiger , accessed on February 7, 2020
- Table of contents of Vom Bierbrauen im Landkreis Kulmbach by Helmut Geiger , accessed on February 7, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual Report 2018. Retrieved on May 23, 2019 .
- ↑ handelsregister.de. Bayreuth District Court, HRB 62. Retrieved on August 20, 2020 .
- ↑ handelsregister.de. Bayreuth District Court, HRB 2529. Accessed August 21, 2020 .
- ↑ EKU: Renovation measures are already having an effect. Accessed August 21, 2020 .
- ↑ May 6th, 2009 Fire EKU high tower. Retrieved June 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Norbayerischer Kurier Germany: Workers ran for their lives: Major fire at EKU - Nordbayerischer Kurier. Retrieved June 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Kulmbacher Brauerei Aktien-Gesellschaft: Ad-hoc announcement according to § 15 WpHG. (No longer available online.) October 15, 2010, archived from the original on March 28, 2012 ; Retrieved May 17, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Change of management in Kulmbach: Mathias Keil succeeds Otto Zejmon. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
- ↑ http://www.br.de/nachrichten/unterfranken/inhalt/brauhaus-schweinfurt-insolvenz-102.html ( Memento from March 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ S. Mössler-Rademacher: After Kitzmann-Aus: Production site already sold. In: Erlangen Nachrichten of September 29, 2018 - available online
- ↑ Shareholder structure , on www.kulmbacher.de ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 16, 2016
- ↑ End of an era: Braustolz closes . In: TAG24 . ( tag24.de [accessed on January 8, 2018]).
- ↑ Annual Report 2016. Accessed December 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Birgit Dengel: Schörghuber reaches through to Kulmbacher ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Financial Times Deutschland of June 5, 2008.
- ↑ Ad-hoc announcement ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Kulmbacher Brewery AG.
- ↑ http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/quality/door/registeredName.html?denominationId=377
- ↑ About the author Helmut Geiger , accessed on February 5, 2020
- ↑ † 2018 - Source: Beer was his life: Helmut Geiger in memory - The book author and employee of the Bayerische Rundschau died after a brief serious illness , accessed on February 5, 2020
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 22.7 " N , 11 ° 26 ′ 33.2" E