Alken-Maes: version 1

Saved 2026-09-14 16:41 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added **Mort Subite Original Kriek 25 cl** (EAN 5411656010711) from the wanted queue, plus four stubs. **Identity confirmed before writing:** the Open Food Facts raw upload 2 shows the bottle's back . This is the current version.

Source of v1

# Alken-Maes <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Alken-Maes
country: BE
register_ids: BE-KBO:0716926901, LEI:5493008DSBGESD0H4G19
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role       | target           | market | from | until | ended | status  | source  | note                                                                                                                                                                        |
| ---------- | ---------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| parent_org | company/heineken |        | 2008 |       |       | sourced | ^nlwiki | Wikipedia: the brewing group has been part of the Dutch Heineken since 2008. The registered direct shareholder is not identified: GLEIF holds no parent record for the LEI. |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref    | url                                                           | title                                           | accessed   | publisher | kind        | published | record_id            | locator | licence      | attribution | upstream |
| ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ----------- | --------- | -------------------- | ------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| gleif  | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/5493008DSBGESD0H4G19 | GLEIF LEI record: Alken-Maes, Mechelen, Belgium | 2026-09-14 | GLEIF     | registry    |           | 5493008DSBGESD0H4G19 |         | CC0          |             |          |
| nlwiki | https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwerij_Mort_Subite           | Brouwerij Mort Subite                           | 2026-09-14 | Wikipedia | publication |           |                      |         | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
| enwiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alken-Maes                      | Alken-Maes                                      | 2026-09-14 | Wikipedia | publication |           |                      |         | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
Alken-Maes is a Belgian brewing group created by the 1988 merger of the Maes brewery at Kontich-Waarloos and Cristal-Alken at Alken, and the second-largest brewer in Belgium.[^enwiki] Besides its pilsners it owns abbey, brown and wheat beers and the Mort Subite lambics, whose Kobbegem brewery it bought into in 1989 and took over fully in 2000.[^enwiki] Scottish & Newcastle bought the group in 2000 and was itself taken over by a Carlsberg-Heineken consortium in 2007; the group has belonged to Heineken since 2008.[^nlwiki] GLEIF records the company at Blarenberglaan 3C, Mechelen, under Belgian enterprise number 0716926901.[^gleif]
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