Beck's Brewery

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Beck's Brewery
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Beck's Brewery
Beck's Brewery
Location Bremen, Germany
Opened1873;152 years ago (1873)
Key peopleLüder Rutenberg
Annual production volume2.56 million hectolitres (2,180,000  US bbl) in 2015 [1]
Website becks.de?lang=en
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Beck's BG 3 beers

Beck's Brewery, also known as Brauerei Beck & Co., is a brewery in the northern German city of Bremen. In 2001, Interbrew bought Brauerei Beck for 1.8 billion euros; at that time it was the fourth-largest brewer in Germany. [2] US manufacture of Beck's has been based in St. Louis, Missouri, since early 2012. [3]

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The Beck's Brewery beer Haake-Beck sponsors Bundesliga club Werder Bremen. Weserstadion Agosto 2011.jpg
The Beck's Brewery beer Haake-Beck sponsors Bundesliga club Werder Bremen.

Since 2008, it has been owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV subsidiary Interbrew. [4] [5]

Beck's key logo is based upon the city of Bremen's coat of arms, which contains a key attributed to the patron saint of the city, Saint Peter.

The brewery sponsored Jaguar in Formula 1 until 2004. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Biermarken in Deutschland". aktiongutesbier.de. n.d. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  2. ↑ Dan Bilefsky for the Wall Street Journal. Interbrew to Buy Beck's Brewer In Bid to Dominate Beer Market
  3. ↑ Leonard, Devin (26 October 2012). "The Plot to Destroy America's Beer". Bloomberg Businessweek . Archived from the original on 27 October 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  4. ↑ "Company Overview of Interbrew International B.V." Bloomberg L.P. 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  5. ↑ Leonard, Christopher (14 July 2008). "Anheuser-Busch agrees to sale". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Associated Press. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  6. ↑ Week, Marketing (19 August 2004). "Jaguar F1 seeks to replace Beck's". Marketing Week. Retrieved 23 May 2023.


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