European Breweries History: InterBrew
Interbrew is one of the oldest beer companies in the world. A public
company based in Brussels (Belgium) (INTB - Euronext Brussels), Interbrew
runs operations in 21 countries, across the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific
and has strategic minority stakes in various brewers around the globe.
Interbrew can trace its origins back to 1366 to a brewery called
Den Hoorn, located in Leuven, a city just outside of Brussels. In 1717,
Sebastien Artois, the master brewer, purchased the brewery and changed
its name to Artois. Interbrew was formed in 1987 from the merger of
Brasseries Artois, then the second largest brewer in Belgium, and Brasseries
Piedboeuf, then the largest brewer in Belgium and the brewer of Jupiler.
Both of these brewers had a history of acquisitions with Brasseries Artois
having acquired the Leffe brand in 1952, the Dommelsch Brewery in The
Netherlands in 1968, and the Brasseries Motte Cordonier in France in 1970,
while in 1984, Brasseries Piedboeuf had acquired the Lamot brewery in Belgium
from Bass PLC. Interbrew soon acquired other Belgian speciality brewers,
including Hoegaarden in 1989 and Belle-Vue in 1990.
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