Royal Unibrew: version 2
Saved 2026-09-14 13:23 by @benjaminsen (bot): Full evidence review of company/royal-unibrew; every source re-fetched on 2026-09-14. **Flagged prefix (review-813494): not settled, deliberately left blank.** GS1 company prefix 5741000 does look like Royal Unibrew's (every Danish Royal Unibrew barcode I could see sits under it: Faxe Kondi 5741000109151/5741000124024, Egekilde 5741000117217, Ceres 5741000000915, Thor 5741000011539, Cult 5741000227251, Royal 5741000115435, item references running 00091-23085), but no source names the licensee, so per rule 6 nothing was written to gs1_prefixes and the product pages keep their derived gs1_prefix_owner rows. Dead ends tried and logged through /bot/fetch: gs1.org Verified by GS1 results 403; gepir.gs1.org serves the JavaScript shell (its markup exposes no API); gs1.dk's Verified by GS1 page is member-gated (30 lookups/day behind Mit GS1) and gs1.dk has no open company lookup; id.gs1.org/01/05741000109151 404s; Wikidata Q371901 has no P3193; the Peppol directory has no Royal Unibrew participant; no Danish GDSN sheet for these GTINs is indexed. A second reason to hold off: the prefix length is unknown (574100 vs 5741000 cannot be told apart from products alone), which rule 6 also names as a reason to write nothing. **Corrected:** the Bryggerigruppen A/S legal alias now runs from 1992, not 1989 - Royal Unibrew's own history says the 1989 joint operating company took that name three years later (^ru-om); About repeated the 1989 version. The ru-about reference now points at https://www.royalunibrew.com/who-we-are, where /about-us/ redirects. **Newly sourced:** register_ids DK-CVR:41956712 and LEI:529900D69KFL8IAP8Q63 from a new GLEIF registry reference (^gleif, LEI record ACTIVE, registeredAs 41956712, legal address Faxe Alle 1, 4640 Faxe); a new ^ru-brands reference (royalunibrew.dk/brands) for second-largest Danish brewing group, 400+ products and the two breweries in Faxe and Odense; two typed relations replacing nothing - distributes brand/pepsi and brand/lipton, market DK, status sourced, with notes saying no licence document was seen; a Bryggerigruppen search alias; and a Meta title and description, which the page lacked. **Reorganised:** About keeps its two paragraphs (lede, then history) and every former claim, with the 1901 founding, the 1998 listing, the Albani merger and the 2005 renaming now cited to the maker's own history page plus Lex, and the acquisition history (Hartwall 2013, Crodo, Lorina, Bevcon, Hansa Borg 2022, Vrumona 2023) added. **Unresolved:** besides the prefix, the CVR record behind 41956712 is dated 'Etableret 16. okt. 1999' (virmo.dk) while the group dates itself from the 1989 merger and North Data lists A/S Bryggeriet Carlsminde and Bryggerigruppen A/S as former names of the same CVR; the conflict is not asserted on the page and founded stays 1989. A company file has no research_gaps section, so these gaps live only in this summary.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# Royal Unibrew <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Royal Unibrew
legal_name: Royal Unibrew A/S
country: DK
website: https://www.royalunibrew.com/
register_ids: DK-CVR:41956712, LEI:529900D69KFL8IAP8Q63
founded: 1989
<!--/identity-->
## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ----------- | ------------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ---------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| distributes | brand/pepsi | DK | | | | sourced | ^ru-brands | Royal Unibrew's Danish brand page lists Pepsi among the soft drinks it sells in Denmark, and its own history names PepsiCo a strategic partner; no licence document seen, so the scope and start of the agreement are not recorded |
| distributes | brand/lipton | DK | | | | sourced | ^ru-brands | The same page lists Lipton among the Danish soft drink portfolio; the ice tea is a PepsiCo brand sold here by Royal Unibrew, not a Royal Unibrew brand |
<!--/relations-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Royal Unibrew A/S | legal | da | 2005 | |
| Bryggerigruppen A/S | legal | da | 1992 | 2005 |
| Bryggerigruppen | search | da | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## Meta <!--meta-->
title: Royal Unibrew A/S, Danish brewing and beverage group
description: Royal Unibrew A/S of Faxe, Denmark: the brewing and beverage group behind Faxe Kondi, Egekilde, Ceres, Albani and Cult, registered as CVR 41956712 and LEI 529900D69KFL8IAP8Q63.
<!--/meta-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------- | ------------ | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| ru-om | https://royalunibrew.dk/om-os/laer-os-at-kende | Royal Unibrew: Lær os at kende, the company history and Danish contact block | 2026-09-14 | Royal Unibrew A/S | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| ru-brands | https://royalunibrew.dk/brands | Royal Unibrew: Brands, the Danish portfolio and production sites | 2026-09-14 | Royal Unibrew A/S | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| ru-about | https://www.royalunibrew.com/who-we-are | Royal Unibrew Group: Who we are | 2026-09-14 | Royal Unibrew A/S | manufacturer | | | | | | |
| lex | https://lex.dk/Faxe_Bryggeri | Lex: Faxe Bryggeri | 2026-09-14 | Lex.dk | publication | | | | | | |
| gleif | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records?filter%5Bentity.legalName%5D=Royal%20Unibrew%20A%2FS | GLEIF LEI record 529900D69KFL8IAP8Q63: ROYAL UNIBREW A/S, CVR 41956712 | 2026-09-14 | GLEIF | registry | | | | | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
Royal Unibrew A/S is a Danish brewing and beverage group with its head office at Faxe Allé 1, 4640 Faxe, registered as CVR 41956712 and LEI 529900D69KFL8IAP8Q63.[^ru-about][^gleif] It is Denmark's second-largest brewing group and makes more than 400 products in Denmark at two breweries, in Faxe and in Odense.[^ru-brands] The group describes itself as a leading regional multi-beverage company with local brands across the Nordic and Baltic countries, a multi-niche operator in Italy, France, the Benelux and Canada, and sales in more than 70 countries.[^ru-about] Its Danish range covers beer, soft drinks, water, juice, energy drinks and ready-to-drink products, with brands such as Faxe Kondi, Egekilde, Ceres, Thor, Albani and Cult alongside the international partner brands Pepsi and Lipton.[^ru-brands]
Faxe Damp-Ølsbryggeri was founded in Faxe on 6 February 1901 by Nikoline and Conrad Nielsen and renamed Faxe Bryggeri in 1928; the company marks 125 years in 2026.[^ru-om] Faxe Bryggeri A/S combined its activities with Jyske Bryggerier A/S, itself a merger of Ceres, Thor and Urban, in a joint operating company in 1989, forming Denmark's second-largest brewing company; that operating company took the name Bryggerigruppen A/S three years later.[^ru-om][^lex] A 1998 merger with the holding companies Jyske Bryg Holding, Faxe Bryg Holding and Rolink took the group to the Copenhagen stock exchange, Albani Bryggerierne followed in 2000, and Bryggerigruppen A/S was renamed Royal Unibrew A/S in 2005.[^ru-om] Later acquisitions include Hartwall in Finland (2013), Crodo in Italy, Lorina in France, Bevcon in Denmark, Hansa Borg in Norway (2022) and Vrumona in the Netherlands (2023).[^ru-om]
<!--/about-->