Radeberger Group

Radeberger Group KG
legal form	Limited partnership
founding	1952
Seat	Frankfurt am Main , Germany
management	Management spokesman: Niels Lorenz
Number of employees	approx. 7,000 (2019)
sales	€ 1.9 billion (2019)
Branch	Beverage manufacture and distribution
Website	www.radeberger-gruppe.de

The Radeberger Gruppe KG , based in Frankfurt am Main, is the largest brewery group in Germany . It produces beer and non-alcoholic beverages at 16 locations .

history

With the acquisition of the majority of shares in the Binding Brewery by Dr. August Oetker KG , the Oetker Group's business division responsible for beer and non-alcoholic beverages, was established in 1952. In July 2002 the Binding Group was renamed the Radeberger Group .

Well-known brands such as Radeberger Pilsner, Jever, Freiberger, Allgäuer Brauhaus (Kempten), Schöfferhofer Weizen, Selters and Tucher are managed under the umbrella of the group. The total turnover of this division is around 1.9 billion euros (2019). According to its own information, the Radeberger Group has a market share of 15 percent in Germany with beverage sales of 13 million hectoliters.

On April 2, 2014, the Federal Cartel Office imposed on the Radeberger Group as well as several other breweries in Germany and the Verband Rheinisch-Westfälischer Brauereien e. V. Fines for prohibited price fixing for beer totaling 231.2 million euros.

At the end of 2017, the Radeberger Group sold the Bionade brand to the beverage manufacturer Hassia Mineralquellen from Bad Vilbel .

As of December 31, 2017, the Barth-Haas-Group listed Radeberger in 20th place of the 40 largest brewery groups in the world.

Locations

Breweries

• Allgäuer Brauhaus AG, headquarters and former brewery in Kempten (Allgäu) , brewery in Leuterschach
  • Brands: Allgäuer, Altenmünster, Büble, Oberdorfer, Teutsch Pils, Fürstabt (wheat), Norbertus (Bock)
• Berliner-Kindl-Schultheiss-Brauerei , Berlin
  • Brands: Berliner Kindl , Schultheiss, Berliner Pilsner , Engelhardt Charlottenburger Pilsener, Potsdamer Rex , Berliner Bürgerbräu , Märkischer Landmann, Prater
• Binding Brewery , Frankfurt am Main
  • Brands: Binding, Clausthaler, Erbacher, Henninger, Schöfferhofer Weizen
• Dortmunder Actien-Brauerei AG , Dortmund
  • Brands: Kronen , Union , DAB, Brinkhoff's , Hansa , Hövels , Ritter , Thier , Stifts , Wicküler , Schlösser Alt
• Freiberger Brauhaus GmbH, Freiberg
  • Brands: Freiberger, Freibergisch, Meisterbräu
• Hasen-Bräu , Augsburg
• Frisian brewery in Jever , Jever
• Hanseatic Brewery Rostock , Rostock
  • Brands: Rostocker, Mahn & Ohlerich

Haus Kölscher brewing tradition, Kölsch brands of the Radeberger Group

• House of Kölscher brewing tradition , Cologne (until autumn 2021)
  • Brands: Gilden Kölsch , Küppers Kölsch , Sester Kölsch, Sion Kölsch , Peters Kölsch , Dom Kölsch
• Krostitzer Brewery , Krostitz
  • Brand: Ur-Krostitzer
• Sternburg Brewery , Leipzig
• Radeberger Exportbierbrauerei GmbH , Radeberg
• Stuttgarter Hofbräu AG & Co. KG, Stuttgart
  • Brands: Stuttgarter Hofbräu, Malteser Weissbier
• Tucher Bräu GmbH & Co. KG, Nuremberg / Fürth
  • Brands: Tucher, Falkenfelser, Grüner, Humbser, Hürner, Scheyern Abbey, Lederer Bräu , Losunger, Patrizier, Sebaldus Weizen, Siechen, Zirndorfer

Production of non-alcoholic beverages

• Selters mineral spring Augusta Victoria, Selters an der Lahn (district of Löhnberg )

Brands

The most important beer brands of the Radeberger Group are:

• Hasen-Bräu
• Berlin Pilsner
• Tucher Brew
• Berliner Kindl
• Berliner Bürgerbräu
• Potsdamer Rex Pils
• Binding
• Braufactum
• Brinkhoff's
• Büble
• Clausthaler
• Cologne Cathedral
• Dortmund crowns
• Dortmund Union
• DAB
• Erbacher Premium Pils
• Freiberger
• Guild Kölsch
• Hansa Pils and Hansa Kölsch
• Henninger
• Hövels Original former Hövels bitter beer
• Jever
• Crown
• Elector Koelsch
• Küppers Kölsch
• Kronsberg Pils
• Mahn and Ohlerich
• Peters Kölsch
• Radeberger
• Rostock
• Schöfferhofer
• Castles old
• Schultheiss
• Sester Kölsch
• Sion Kölsch
• Sternburg
• Stuttgarter Hofbräu
• Ur-Krostitzer
• Wicküler Pils

In addition, the Radeberger Group sells the brands Krušovice Královský Pivovar , Guinness and Kilkenny draft and bottled beer as well as Stowford Cider products in Germany. The Royal Brewery Krušovice in the Czech Republic, which belonged to the Radeberger Group from 1994 to 2007, was acquired by Heineken in June 2007 . However, sales in Germany will continue to be carried out by the Radeberger Group. From 2015 the group will also be producing and selling products from PepsiCo.

The group also owns the Selters mineral water brand

Participation in beverage wholesalers

• DGL Deutsche Getränke Logistik, Lingen (50% joint venture with Veltins (50%) belong to this
  • Essmann, Lingen and West German Beverage Logistics, West German Beverage Trade, Dortmund)
• Beverages Hoffmann , Blankenfelde-Mahlow OT Groß Kienitz (100%)
• Beverages Preuss Münchhagen, Berlin (100%); (formerly Bierpark Münchhagen, Blumberg and Fritz Preuss Bier-Import GmbH Berlin)
• Schenker, Senftenberg (100%)
• ESG drinks, Kabelsketal (100%)
• Wigem, Mainz (100%)
• Helmke, Dresden (100%)
• Osna & Krause, Osnabrück (100%)
• Weidlich, Dortmund (100%)
• Cohrt, Kiel (100%)
• Botzum, Hanau (100%)
• Siems, Kaltenkirchen (100%)
• Schneider & Berger, Freiberg (30%)
• Beverage Land-Heidebrecht, Elmenhorst (15%)
• Löffelsend & Weincompagny, Potsdam (40%)
• Otto Pachmayr, Oberhaching (100%)

Web links

Commons : Radeberger Gruppe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Radeberger Group
• Early documents and newspaper articles on the Radeberger Group in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The management. radeberger-gruppe.de, accessed on January 27, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} key figures. In: radeberger-gruppe.de , accessed on July 30, 2020
3. ↑ Bundeskartellamt: Cartel proceedings against beer brewers concluded with further fines. In: bundeskartellamt.de , April 2, 2014
4. ↑ Bionade changes hands. In: faz.net , October 10, 2017
5. ↑ The Barth Report: The 40 largest brewery groups in the world as of December 31, 2017. (pdf) Joh.Barth & Sohn GmbH & Co KG., July 2018, p. 7 , accessed on March 27, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Takeover - Radeberger gets Dom-Kölsch. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , October 24, 2013, p. 25
7. ↑ Heineken buys the Czech brewery Krusovice. In: Handelsblatt.com. June 15, 2007, accessed June 16, 2010 . 
8. ↑ Cooperation with PepsiCo Germany starts on January 1, 2015. January 21, 2014, accessed on May 20, 2014 . 
9. ^ Takeover of wholesaler Pachmayr. Radeberger Group. Food Practice, March 19, 2020, accessed April 2, 2020 .