Kulmbacher Brauerei: version 1
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| 1 | 1 | # Kulmbacher Brauerei <!--company--> | |
| 2 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 3 | ## Identity <!--identity--> | |
| 4 | 4 | name: Kulmbacher Brauerei | |
| 5 | 5 | legal_name: Kulmbacher Brauerei Aktien-Gesellschaft | |
| 6 | 6 | country: DE | |
| 7 | 7 | website: https://www.kulmbacher.de/ | |
| 8 | 8 | register_ids: DE-HRB:Bayreuth 62, VAT:DE132356601 | |
| 9 | + | gs1_prefixes_inferred: 4082100 | |
| 9 | 10 | founded: 1846 | |
| 10 | 11 | <!--/identity--> | |
| 11 | 12 | ||
| 13 | + | ## Relations <!--relations--> | |
| 14 | + | | role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note | | |
| 15 | + | | ---------- | -------------------------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |
| 16 | + | | owned_by | company/paulaner-brauerei-gruppe | | 2017-07-04 | | | sourced | ^kulmbacher-wiki | Majority shareholder with 63.8 % of the share capital. The stake sat with Brau Holding International until that company was merged into the Paulaner group on 4 July 2017 and renamed. | | |
| 17 | + | | owned_by | company/ireks | | | | | sourced | ^kulmbacher-wiki | Second registered shareholder, 25.8 % of the share capital; the remaining 10.4 % is free float. No source gives the date the stake was taken. | | |
| 18 | + | | parent_org | company/schorghuber-unternehmensgruppe | | | | | sourced | ^schoerghuber-wiki | Ultimate parent: the Schörghuber holding owns 70 % of the Paulaner Brauerei Gruppe, Heineken the other 30 %. Schörghuber first took 49.9 % of Kulmbacher's share capital in 1986. | | |
| 19 | + | <!--/relations--> | |
| 20 | + | ||
| 12 | 21 | ## Aliases <!--aliases--> | |
| 13 | − | | name | type | locale | from | until | | |
| 14 | − | | --------------------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----- | | |
| 15 | − | | Kulmbacher Brauerei Aktien-Gesellschaft | legal | de | | | | |
| 16 | − | | Kulmbacher Brauerei AG | name | de | | | | |
| 17 | − | | Reichelbräu | name | de | | | | |
| 22 | + | | name | type | locale | from | until | | |
| 23 | + | | --------------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | | |
| 24 | + | | Kulmbacher Brauerei Aktien-Gesellschaft | legal | de | | | | |
| 25 | + | | Kulmbacher Brauerei AG | name | de | | | | |
| 26 | + | | Reichelbräu | name | de | | | | |
| 27 | + | | Kulmbacher Gruppe | search | de | | | | |
| 18 | 28 | <!--/aliases--> | |
| 19 | 29 | ||
| 30 | + | ## Meta <!--meta--> | |
| 31 | + | title: Kulmbacher Brauerei | |
| 32 | + | description: Brewing group in Kulmbach, Upper Franconia, majority-owned by the Paulaner Brauerei Gruppe; brews Kulmbacher, Mönchshof, EKU, Kapuziner, Sternquell and Braustolz. | |
| 33 | + | <!--/meta--> | |
| 34 | + | ||
| 20 | 35 | ## References <!--references--> | |
| 21 | − | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
| 22 | − | | ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------- | ------------ | --------- | --------- | ---------------------- | ------------ | ---------------------- | -------- | | |
| 23 | − | | kulmbacher-wiki | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulmbacher_Brauerei | Wikipedia (de): Kulmbacher Brauerei | 2026-09-13 | Wikipedia | publication | | | Einleitung; Geschichte | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | | | |
| 24 | − | | kulmbacher-imprint | https://www.kulmbacher.de/impressum/ | Kulmbacher: Impressum | 2026-09-13 | Kulmbacher Brauerei Aktien-Gesellschaft | manufacturer | | | | | | | | |
| 36 | + | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
| 37 | + | | ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------- | ------------ | --------- | --------- | ----------------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------------------------- | -------- | | |
| 38 | + | | kulmbacher-wiki | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulmbacher_Brauerei | Wikipedia (de): Kulmbacher Brauerei | 2026-09-14 | Wikipedia | publication | | | Einleitung; Geschichte; Unternehmensdaten | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | | | |
| 39 | + | | kulmbacher-imprint | https://www.kulmbacher.de/impressum/ | Kulmbacher: Impressum | 2026-09-14 | Kulmbacher Brauerei Aktien-Gesellschaft | manufacturer | | | | | | | | |
| 40 | + | | paulaner-wiki | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulaner_Brauerei_Gruppe | Wikipedia (de): Paulaner Brauerei Gruppe | 2026-09-14 | Wikipedia | publication | | | Einleitung; Geschichte; Organisation | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | | | |
| 41 | + | | schoerghuber-wiki | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6rghuber_Unternehmensgruppe | Wikipedia (de): Schörghuber Unternehmensgruppe | 2026-09-14 | Wikipedia | publication | | | Einleitung; Getränke | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | | | |
| 42 | + | | off-prefix | https://search.openfoodfacts.org/search?q=code:4082100*&fields=code,brands,product_name,countries_tags | Open Food Facts: packs under GS1 prefix 4082100 | 2026-09-14 | Open Food Facts | catalogue | | | 14 hits, pages 1-2 | ODbL | Open Food Facts contributors | | | |
| 25 | 43 | <!--/references--> | |
| 26 | 44 | ||
| 27 | 45 | ## About <!--about--> | |
| 28 | − | German brewing group based in Kulmbach. It was founded in 1846 as Reichelbräu and became a stock corporation in 1895. Its majority owner, with 63.8 %, is the Paulaner Brauerei Gruppe, a joint venture of Heineken and the Schörghuber group.[^kulmbacher-wiki] In 2005 it took a 90.7 % majority of Würzburger Hofbräu AG.[^kulmbacher-wiki] Its address is Lichtenfelser Straße 9, 95326 Kulmbach, and it is registered at the Bayreuth local court under HRB 62.[^kulmbacher-imprint] | |
| 46 | + | Kulmbacher Brauerei Aktien-Gesellschaft is a German brewing group in Kulmbach, Upper Franconia, founded in 1846 as Reichelbräu by Johann W. Reichel, Johann K. Scheiding and Johann M. Hübner and converted into a stock corporation in 1895.[^kulmbacher-wiki] Its majority shareholder, with 63.8 % of the share capital, is the Paulaner Brauerei Gruppe, a joint venture in which the Schörghuber group holds 70 % and Heineken 30 %; the Kulmbach food manufacturer Ireks holds 25.8 % and 10.4 % is free float.[^kulmbacher-wiki][^paulaner-wiki][^schoerghuber-wiki] The group sold just under 3.64 million hectolitres of drinks in 2024 and brews Kulmbacher, Mönchshof, EKU, Kapuziner, Sternquell and Braustolz beers.[^kulmbacher-wiki] It trades from Lichtenfelser Straße 9, 95326 Kulmbach, and is registered at the Bayreuth local court under HRB 62.[^kulmbacher-imprint] | |
| 47 | + | ||
| 48 | + | The range grew from 1980 with Sandlerbräu and, in 1984, Mönchshof-Bräu; the Schörghuber group took 49.9 % of the share capital in 1986 and Kapuziner Weißbier followed in 1987. During the 1990s the company took over Sternquell-Brauerei in Plauen, Braustolz in Chemnitz and the Erste Kulmbacher Aktienbrauerei (EKU), whose business passed to the renamed Kulmbacher EKU Brauerei GmbH after its insolvency, and a majority of Bad Brambacher Mineralquellen; EKU, Reichel, Sandler and Mönchshof have been united in Kulmbacher Brauerei AG since 1996. The Coburg breweries Sturm and Scheidmantel followed in 2002, Privatbrauerei Scherdel and a 90.7 % majority of Würzburger Hofbräu AG from 2003, and the trademarks of the insolvent Brauhaus Schweinfurt in 2015 and of Kitzmann in September 2018. The shares left the Frankfurt stock exchange on 12 January 2010 and the Munich m:access segment on 30 November 2010. The 2024 consolidated accounts include Sternquell-Brauerei, Braustolz, Würzburger Hofbräu, Scherdel Bier, Keiler Bier, Sternla Bier and Bad Brambacher Mineralquellen (85 %) among others; Braustolz has been brewed in Plauen since the Chemnitz brewery closed in 2017.[^kulmbacher-wiki] No public register names the licensee of a GS1 company prefix, so 4082100 is recorded as inferred, not sourced: of the 14 Open Food Facts packs whose barcode starts with it, 13 are Kulmbacher's Mönchshof beers, one of them filed under the brand "Mönchshof Brauerei (Kulmbacher Brauerei AG)", and the fourteenth is an unrelated US record that looks like a mistyped barcode.[^off-prefix] Kulmbacher's own packs are also sold under EAN-8 codes (40805214, 40821122), which carry no company prefix.[^off-prefix] | |
| 29 | 49 | <!--/about--> |
Source of v1
# Kulmbacher Brauerei <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Kulmbacher Brauerei
legal_name: Kulmbacher Brauerei Aktien-Gesellschaft
country: DE
website: https://www.kulmbacher.de/
register_ids: DE-HRB:Bayreuth 62, VAT:DE132356601
founded: 1846
<!--/identity-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| --------------------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Kulmbacher Brauerei Aktien-Gesellschaft | legal | de | | |
| Kulmbacher Brauerei AG | name | de | | |
| Reichelbräu | name | de | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------- | ------------ | --------- | --------- | ---------------------- | ------------ | ---------------------- | -------- |
| kulmbacher-wiki | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulmbacher_Brauerei | Wikipedia (de): Kulmbacher Brauerei | 2026-09-13 | Wikipedia | publication | | | Einleitung; Geschichte | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| kulmbacher-imprint | https://www.kulmbacher.de/impressum/ | Kulmbacher: Impressum | 2026-09-13 | Kulmbacher Brauerei Aktien-Gesellschaft | manufacturer | | | | | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
German brewing group based in Kulmbach. It was founded in 1846 as Reichelbräu and became a stock corporation in 1895. Its majority owner, with 63.8 %, is the Paulaner Brauerei Gruppe, a joint venture of Heineken and the Schörghuber group.[^kulmbacher-wiki] In 2005 it took a 90.7 % majority of Würzburger Hofbräu AG.[^kulmbacher-wiki] Its address is Lichtenfelser Straße 9, 95326 Kulmbach, and it is registered at the Bayreuth local court under HRB 62.[^kulmbacher-imprint]
<!--/about-->