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| Company type | Sociedad Anónima |
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| Industry | Beverage |
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| Founder |
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| Headquarters | Barcelona , Spain |
Area served | Nationwide |
Key people | Demetrio Carceller Coll, owner Demetrio Carceller Arce, President |
| Products | Estrella Damm |
| Revenue | 2,061,000,000 Euro (2023)  |
| 130,000,000 Euro (2023) | |
Number of employees | 5,765 (2023) |
| Website | www |
Sociedad Anónima Damm is a Spanish brewery founded in Barcelona in 1876 by the Alsatian August Kuentzmann Damm and Joseph Damm. It is the main brewery in the city.
Products
[edit]Its best known beer products include the following four:
- Estrella Damm, formerly "Estrella Dorada", a pale beer, one of the most popular beers in the Barcelona area. It has been brewed since 1876. Its bottles and caps used to display a characteristic golden star on white ground. Now the star on the cans is on a red background.
- Voll-Damm imitates a German-style Märzen beer. It has more body and a higher alcohol content than Estrella. Its dark-green coloured labels display writing in the Gothic script.
- Xibeca is a low-alcohol grade table-beer coming in large, low-priced one-liter bottles. "Xibeca" was meant to be consumed along with meals, as a cheap substitute for red table wine when the prices of table wines rose at the end of the 1960s. It was very popular among the low-middle class in Catalonia during the 1970s.
- Estrella Levante (es) Clásica is a pilsner lager produced in Espinardo, Murcia. It has been brewed since 1963.[1][2][3][4][5] Other beers are Especial, Skol, and Punta del Este.
Other Damm products include Inedit, Bock Damm, Free-Damm, A.K. Damm, among others. Damm also produces a range of Gluten-reduced beers under the Daura label, including a Lager and a Märzen.
Corporate Activity
[edit]In 2018, the shareholding was formed by the Canarian oil company Disa Corporación Petrolífera (33%), owned by the Carceller family, the German food group Dr. Oetker (25%), Seegrund (13.95%), also controlled by the Carceller family and Demetrio Carceller Arce himself (0.083%).[6] The rest of the company's shareholders are several historical families and descendants of the founder, August Kuentzmann Damm, La Moràvia d'Inversions (Armadàs family, 6%) and Boag Valores (Agenjo family, 5%).[7]
In 2022, Carlsberg Marstons Brewing Company announced it will sell the Eagle Brewery in Bedford, England to S.A. Damm. The Eagle Brewery has packaged Estrella Damm since 2010.[8]
Sponsorship
[edit]During the heyday of baseball in Spain in the 1950s and 1960s, Damm sponsored a local baseball team, Picadero Damm. During the 1960s, Damm was also known for marketing its beer to all members of the family, including children.[9]
Shareholders
[edit]| Shareholder | Stockholding |
|---|---|
| Disa Corporación Petrolífera | 27,190% |
| Dr. Oetker | 25,014% |
| Seegrund B.V. | 13,951% |
| La Moravia D'Inversions, S.A. | 6,056% |
| Boag Valores, S.L. | 5,126% |
Stockholdings
[edit]| Society | Interest |
|---|---|
| Ebro Foods | 9,651% |
| Pescanova | 5,000% |
References
[edit]- ^ "Maltas y Cervezas de Murcia". Estrella de Levante. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
- ^ "Estrella de Levante". enerTIC (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 February 2022.
- ^ "Estrella de Levante donates more bottled water and extends logistical support". Damm Corporate. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
- ^ "Así es como Damm conquistó el Mediterráneo con la cerveza Estrella de Levante". El Español (in Spanish). 23 August 2020. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
- ^ "Estrella de Levante es la primera empresa del sector alimentario de España que certifica su huella hídrica". iAgua (in Spanish). 5 November 2014. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
- ^ González-Pacanowska, Dolores (2014-09-01). "La dUTPasa, una NTP-pirofosfatasa todo-α que controla el nivel de uracilo en el ADN". doi:10.18567/sebbmdiv_anc.2014.09.1.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Rodero, Emma (2020-05-07). "La radio: el medio que mejor se comporta en las crisis. Hábitos de escucha, consumo y percepción de los oyentes de radio durante el confinamiento por el Covid-19". El Profesional de la Información. 29 (3). doi:10.3145/epi.2020.may.06. hdl:10230/44567. ISSN 1699-2407. S2CID 219179067.
- ^ "Carlsberg to sell Eagle Brewery to Spain's S.A Damm". 8 November 2022.
- ^ "Cuando la cerveza era una bebida para niños". El Pais. Retrieved 2014-10-18.
External links
[edit]- Official homepage (in English, Catalan, and Spanish)
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