Ringnes (brewery)
Ringnes is a traditional Norwegian brewery . Today it belongs to one of the largest beer producers in Europe, the Danish Carlsberg Group .
history
The company was founded in 1876 by the brothers Amund Ringnes and Ellef Ringnes - Amund was the brewer , Ellef the sales manager - and the former Swedish-Norwegian vice-consul in Shanghai, Axel Heiberg . The joint-stock company has its headquarters in Oslo to this day , where the first brewery was built and brewed in 1877.
The brewery sponsored the polar expeditions of Fridtjof Nansen , Otto Sverdrup and Roald Amundsen . During his exploration of the Canadian Arctic from 1898 to 1902, Sverdrup named three large islands after his sponsors :
Company development
Until 1978, Ringnes was a purely family business . The brewery later merged with smaller Norwegian companies, which in turn were gradually taken over by the Orkla Group . In 2004, the Carlsberg brewery acquired the majority stake in the Orkla Group with the result and thus in Ringnes .
See also
- List of breweries
- Queen Elizabeth Islands (Canadian Arctic)
