Carlsberg Foundation: version 2
Saved 2026-09-23 12:59 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled owner_unknown: set Identity ownership_status: no_corporate_parent with ownership_source ^cf-noup (GLEIF ultimate-parent reporting exception, NO_KNOWN_PERSON, re-fetched 2026-09-23). Added References cf-nodp (GLEIF direct-parent reporting exception, also NO_KNOWN_PERSON) and ef-wiki (Wikipedia: Enterprise foundation, stating enterprise foundations are self-governing entities with no owners), which now carries the self-owning sentence that was previously cited only to GLEIF. Rewrote the second About paragraph to drop page-referential narration ("the walk up the group ends here", "the page this one answers from", "not covered by this page") and stated the New Carlsberg Foundation fact as the 1902 gift the source describes. Re-verified cf-own and cf-faq (30% capital / 78% votes) and refreshed their accessed dates; cf-own kind changed to manufacturer (the foundation's own page). No relations added: the foundation is the top of the Carlsberg chain. No Meta section, no images.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# Carlsberg Foundation <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Carlsberg Foundation
summary: Danish enterprise foundation set up by J.C. Jacobsen in 1876; it controls 78% of the votes in Carlsberg A/S and awards philanthropic funding.
legal_name: Carlsbergfondet
ownership_status: no_corporate_parent
ownership_source: ^cf-noup
registered_address: H.C. Andersens Boulevard 35, 1553 Copenhagen V, Denmark
wikidata: Q1043358
country: DK
website: https://www.carlsbergfondet.dk/
register_ids: LEI:549300TCRGPALF0XHY69, DK-CVR:60223513
founded: 1876-09-25
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------------------ | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Carlsbergfondet | legal | da | | |
| Carlsbergfondet | search | da | | |
| The Carlsberg Foundation | search | en | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | -------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | -------------------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| cf-own | https://www.carlsbergfondet.dk/en/about-the-foundation/governance/ownership-of-carlsberg-as/ | Carlsberg Foundation: Ownership of Carlsberg A/S | 2026-09-23 | Carlsbergfondet | manufacturer | 2024-05-01 | | | | | |
| cf-gleif | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/549300TCRGPALF0XHY69 | GLEIF LEI record: Carlsbergfondet, CVR 60223513, H.C. Andersens Boulevard 35 | 2026-09-19 | GLEIF | registry | | 549300TCRGPALF0XHY69 | | | | |
| cf-noup | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/549300TCRGPALF0XHY69/ultimate-parent-reporting-exception | GLEIF: no ultimate parent for Carlsbergfondet, reason NO_KNOWN_PERSON | 2026-09-23 | GLEIF | registry | | 549300TCRGPALF0XHY69 | | | | |
| cf-nodp | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/549300TCRGPALF0XHY69/direct-parent-reporting-exception | GLEIF: no direct parent for Carlsbergfondet, reason NO_KNOWN_PERSON | 2026-09-23 | GLEIF | registry | | 549300TCRGPALF0XHY69 | | | | |
| cf-faq | https://www.carlsberggroup.com/investor-relations/investor-home/faq/ | Carlsberg Group investor FAQ: the Carlsberg Foundation holds 30% of the capital and 78% of the votes | 2026-09-23 | Carlsberg Group | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| cf-wd | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1043358 | Wikidata: Carlsberg Foundation (Q1043358), stating LEI 549300TCRGPALF0XHY69 and CVR 60223513 | 2026-09-19 | Wikimedia Foundation | catalogue | | Q1043358 | | cc0 | | |
| ef-wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_foundation | Wikipedia: Enterprise foundation | 2026-09-23 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
The Carlsberg Foundation, in Danish Carlsbergfondet, is a Danish enterprise foundation with a philanthropic purpose and the controlling shareholder of the brewing group Carlsberg A/S: it holds 30% of that company's share capital and 78% of its votes, and its charter obliges its board to keep control of the majority of the votes.[^cf-faq][^cf-own] The brewer J.C. Jacobsen established it by charter and deed of gift to the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 1876, and on his death in 1887 it became sole owner of the Old Carlsberg brewery, which makes it the world's oldest enterprise foundation with responsibility for an industrial company; its board members are still elected by the Academy from among its Danish members, and two of them sit on the supervisory board of Carlsberg A/S, one as deputy chair.[^cf-own][^cf-faq] It runs the Carlsberg Research Laboratory, has owned the Carlsberg Academy since a 2015 charter amendment, and awards funding for the purposes its charter names.[^cf-own]
The foundation has no owner and no corporate parent. An enterprise foundation is a self-governing entity with no owners or shareholders,[^ef-wiki] and the foundation's LEI record reports neither a direct nor an ultimate accounting parent, giving the reason NO_KNOWN_PERSON for both.[^cf-nodp][^cf-noup] It is seated at H.C. Andersens Boulevard 35 in Copenhagen with CVR number 60223513, LEI 549300TCRGPALF0XHY69 and an entity creation date of 25 September 1876; Wikidata's item carries the same LEI and CVR number.[^cf-gleif][^cf-wd] The charter required the foundation to own at least 51% of the brewery's share capital from the 1970 Carlsberg-Tuborg merger, more than 25% of the capital with at least 51% of the votes from 2007, and voting control alone from 2013.[^cf-own] In 1902 Carl and Ottilia Jacobsen gave the New Carlsberg Brewery to the foundation and established the New Carlsberg Foundation as an independent foundation under it, a separate legal entity.[^cf-own]
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