Carlsberg Danmark: version 2
Saved 2026-09-14 13:14 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled the flagged 2028 problem: the end date is real but the citation was not. Carlsberg Group's own newsroom release of 21 April 2026 states that "Carlsberg's current bottling agreements with The Coca-Cola Company in Denmark and Finland will run until expiry at 31 December 2028", so the distributor_for row keeps its end date, now sharpened to until: 2028-12-31, status verified, cited to the new ^pepsico References row instead of ^kfst. I re-fetched ^kfst and confirmed the flag: the 23 May 2001 merger clearance (1,743 characters of text) contains neither 2028 nor 1992 nor any licence term, so it no longer carries either fact; it is kept and now cited only for what it does say, Carlsberg's purchase of The Coca-Cola Company's 49 % of Coca-Cola Tapperierne. from: 1992 is now cited to the new ^ccdk row (The Coca-Cola Company's own Danish page), which also confirms Carlsberg is still its bottler and distributor. Separately I removed gs1_prefixes: 5741000, which was wrong: that prefix carries Royal Unibrew's Faxe Kondi articles (products 05741000109151 and 05741000124024, whose gs1_prefix_owner rows point at company/royal-unibrew), while Carlsberg's Danish barcodes on Open Food Facts begin 574060 and 574070; no fetched source names Carlsberg Danmark as the holder of those and their length is unknown, so none is recorded. I also added a sourced distributor_for row for company/pepsico from 2029-01-01 (status sourced, announced but not yet in force), and created the two companies the entry referred to but the site lacked: company/carlsberg-group, which the existing owned_by row pointed at as a dangling reference, with LEI 5299001O0WJQYB5GYZ19 and CVR 61056416 from GLEIF; and company/coca-cola-tapperierne (formerly Dadeko A/S), which merged into Carlsberg Danmark in 2001. References rows added: ^ccdk and ^pepsico on this file, ^cg-dk and ^cg-gleif on the Carlsberg Group stub, ^cct-kfst, ^cct-ccdk and ^cct-cg on the Coca-Cola Tapperierne stub; ^structure and ^kfst accessed dates moved to 2026-09-14 because I re-fetched both. Unresolved: no citable CVR number for Carlsberg Danmark A/S itself (it has no LEI, and carlsbergdanmark.dk returns an empty body to the server), and no sourced GS1 prefix for the company.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# Carlsberg Danmark <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Carlsberg Danmark
legal_name: Carlsberg Danmark A/S
country: DK
website: https://www.carlsbergdanmark.dk/
founded: 1847
<!--/identity-->
## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| --------------- | ----------------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ---------- | ----- | -------- | ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/carlsberg-group | | 2000 | | | sourced | ^structure | Carlsberg Danmark became a fully owned subsidiary of the Carlsberg Group in 2000 |
| distributor_for | company/the-coca-cola-company | DK | 1992 | 2028-12-31 | | verified | ^pepsico | Carlsberg took over Dadeko A/S and Danish Coca-Cola production in 1992 and is still the bottler and distributor (^ccdk); Carlsberg's own announcement dates expiry to 31 December 2028. The former ^kfst citation for the end date was wrong: that ruling states no licence term |
| distributor_for | company/pepsico | DK | 2029-01-01 | | | sourced | ^pepsico | Announced 21 April 2026 and not yet in force: Carlsberg takes over production, sale and distribution of the PepsiCo portfolio in Denmark from 1 January 2029, when the Coca-Cola agreement expires |
<!--/relations-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| --------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Carlsberg Danmark A/S | legal | da | | |
| Carlsberg Danmark A/S | search | da | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## Meta <!--meta-->
title: Carlsberg Danmark
description: Carlsberg Group's Danish operating company: brewer of Carlsberg and Tuborg, and Coca-Cola's Danish bottler since 1992 under an agreement expiring 31 December 2028, with PepsiCo bottling from 2029.
<!--/meta-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | ---------------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| structure | https://www.carlsberggroup.com/who-we-are/about-the-carlsberg-group/global-presence/denmark/ | Carlsberg Group: Denmark | 2026-09-14 | Carlsberg Group | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| kfst | https://kfst.dk/afgoerelser-ruling/konkurrenceomraadet/afgoerelser/2001/carlsbergs-overtagelse-af-cocacola-tapperierne | Konkurrencestyrelsen: Carlsbergs overtagelse af Coca-Cola Tapperierne (2001) | 2026-09-14 | Konkurrence- og Forbrugerstyrelsen | registry | 2001-05-23 | 3/1120-0401-0006 | | | | |
| ccdk | https://www.coca-cola.com/dk/da/sustainability/coca-cola-in-denmark/coca-cola-over-90-ar-i-dannmark | Coca-Cola: Over 90 år i Danmark | 2026-09-14 | The Coca-Cola Company | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| pepsico | https://www.carlsberggroup.com/newsroom/carlsberg-expands-strategic-partnership-with-pepsico-to-the-nordics-and-baltics/ | Carlsberg Expands Strategic Partnership with PepsiCo to the Nordics and Baltics | 2026-09-14 | Carlsberg Group | manufacturer | 2026-04-21 | | | | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
Carlsberg Danmark A/S is the Carlsberg Group's Danish operating company and the country's leading producer and supplier of beer and soft drinks, brewing Carlsberg, Tuborg and Wiibroe; its original Valby brewery in Copenhagen was founded by J.C. Jacobsen on 10 November 1847, and it became a wholly owned subsidiary of the group in 2000 before merging with Coca-Cola Tapperierne in 2001.[^structure] Carlsberg took over Dadeko A/S and with it Danish Coca-Cola production in 1992, and The Coca-Cola Company still names Carlsberg as its Danish bottler and distributor, producing Coca-Cola, Fanta and Sprite at the Fredericia brewery.[^ccdk] Carlsberg has announced that its Coca-Cola bottling agreements in Denmark and Finland run until expiry on 31 December 2028, and that it becomes PepsiCo's bottler in Denmark from 1 January 2029.[^pepsico]
Danish Coca-Cola bottling began with Premier Is in 1934 and passed through Dansk Delikatessekompagni and Willian & Madsen A/S, which merged as Dadeko A/S in 1980; Carlsberg bought Dadeko in 1992 and renamed it Coca-Cola Tapperierne A/S.[^ccdk] Konkurrencestyrelsen cleared Carlsberg's purchase of The Coca-Cola Company's remaining 49 % of that bottler on 23 May 2001, ending the two companies' joint control.[^kfst] All Carlsberg Danmark production moved from the Valby site to the Fredericia brewery at the end of 2008.[^structure]
<!--/about-->