Ölgerðin Egill Skallagrímsson: version 1
Saved 2026-09-25 11:16 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added the Icelandic Mountain Dew 330 ml can (5690542005851), the barcode family/mountain-dew names without a page. Identity from the Open Food Facts front photo (2022) and record; manufacturer, ingred. This is the current version.
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# Ölgerðin Egill Skallagrímsson <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Ölgerðin Egill Skallagrímsson
summary: Reykjavík brewery and soft drinks maker founded in 1913, Iceland's largest beverage producer, which makes Carlsberg and PepsiCo brands under licence beside its own.
legal_name: Ölgerðin Egill Skallagrímsson ehf.
registered_address: Grjóthálsi 7-11, 110 Reykjavík
country: IS
website: https://www.olgerdin.is
gs1_prefixes_inferred: 5690542
founded: 1913
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## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind | address | country | source | note |
| ---- | ------ | ------------------------------ | ------- | --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| | office | Grjóthálsi 7-11, 110 Reykjavík | IS | ^olgabout | Address given on its website and on its product data sheets. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ---------------------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Ölgerðin Egill Skallagrímsson ehf. | legal | is | | |
| Ölgerðin | name | is | | |
| Olgerdin | search | en | | |
| Egill Skallagrímsson Brewery | name | en | | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------------------- | ------------ | --------- | --------- | ------------- | ------------ | ---------------------------- | -------- |
| wikiolg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egill_Skallagr%C3%ADmsson_Brewery | Egill Skallagrímsson Brewery | 2026-09-25 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | cc-by-sa-4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| olgds | https://vefverslun.olgerdin.is/vorublad-pdf?ProductID=27254_oes&ConvertToPdf=true&filename=27254 | Vörublað: Mountain Dew 330 ml dósir (Ölgerðin data sheet) | 2026-09-25 | Ölgerðin Egill Skallagrímsson | manufacturer | | 27254 | product 27254 | | | |
| olgabout | https://english.olgerdin.is/about-us/about-us/ | About us - Ölgerðin | 2026-09-25 | Ölgerðin Egill Skallagrímsson | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| offblock | https://search.openfoodfacts.org/search?q=code:5690542*&fields=code,brands,product_name | Open Food Facts search: packs whose barcode begins 5690542 | 2026-09-25 | Open Food Facts | catalogue | | | 30 hits | ODbL | Open Food Facts contributors | |
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## About <!--about-->
Ölgerðin Egill Skallagrímsson is a Reykjavík brewery and drinks maker that calls itself Iceland's largest beverage producer; it owns Egils Appelsín and Egils Malt and is licensed to produce and sell brands of the Carlsberg Group and PepsiCo.[^olgabout] Among them is the Icelandic Mountain Dew can, which its data sheet names it as manufacturer of.[^olgds]
Tómas Tómasson founded the company on 17 April 1913 to make a malt extract drink; soft drinks followed in 1930 and Egils Appelsín in 1955.[^wikiolg] Lind ehf., a subsidiary of Danól ehf., bought Ölgerðin in April 2002, and in 2007 Októ Einarsson and Andri Þór Guðmundsson acquired it.[^wikiolg] The barcode prefix 5690542 is inferred to be its own: the Open Food Facts records under that block that name a brand, 30 read on 2026-09-25, carry Ölgerðin brands such as Egils, Collab, Mist, Pepsi and Tuborg, and its data sheet names it as maker of the Mountain Dew can in the block.[^offblock][^olgds]
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