S.A. Damm Explained
Sociedad Anónima Damm is a Spanish brewery founded in Barcelona in 1876 by the Alsatian August Kuentzmann Damm and Joseph Damm. It is the main brewery in the city.
Products
Its best known beer products include the following four:
- Estrella Damm, formerly "Estrella Dorada", a pale beer, one of the most popular beers in the Barcelona area. It has been brewed since 1876. Its bottles and caps used to display a characteristic golden star on white ground. Now the star on the cans is on a red background.
- Voll-Damm imitates a German-style Märzen beer. It has more body and a higher alcohol content than Estrella. Its dark-green coloured labels display writing in the Gothic script.
- Xibeca is a low-alcohol grade table-beer coming in large, low-priced one-liter bottles. "Xibeca" was meant to be consumed along with meals, as a cheap substitute for red table wine when the prices of table wines rose at the end of the 1960s. It was very popular among the low-middle class in Catalonia during the 1970s.
- Estrella Levante (es) Clásica is a pilsner lager produced in Espinardo, Murcia. It has been brewed since 1963.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Other beers are Especial, Skol, and Punta del Este.
Other Damm products include Inedit, Bock Damm, Free-Damm, A.K. Damm, among others. Damm also produces a range of Gluten-reduced beers under the Daura label, including a Lager and a Märzen.
Corporate Activity
In 2018, the shareholding was formed by the Canarian oil company Disa Corporación Petrolífera (33%), owned by the Carceller family, the German food group Dr. Oetker (25%), Seegrund (13.95%), also controlled by the Carceller family and Demetrio Carceller Arce himself (0.083%).[6] The rest of the company's shareholders are several historical families and descendants of the founder, August Kuentzmann Damm, La Moràvia d'Inversions (Armadàs family, 6%) and Boag Valores (Agenjo family, 5%).[7]
In 2022, Carlsberg Marstons Brewing Company announced it will sell the Eagle Brewery in Bedford, England to S.A. Damm. The Eagle Brewery has packaged Estrella Damm since 2010.[8]
Sponsorship
During the heyday of baseball in Spain in the 1950s and 1960s, Damm sponsored a local baseball team, Picadero Damm. During the 1960s, Damm was also known for marketing its beer to all members of the family, including children.[9]
Shareholders
| Shareholder | Stockholding |
|---|
| Disa Corporación Petrolífera | 27,190% |
| Dr. Oetker | 25,014% |
| Seegrund B.V. | 13,951% |
| La Moravia D'Inversions, S.A. | 6,056% |
| Boag Valores, S.L. | 5,126% | |
Stockholdings
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Maltas y Cervezas de Murcia . Estrella de Levante . 5 February 2022.
- Web site: Estrella de Levante . enerTIC . 5 February 2022 . es.
- Web site: Estrella de Levante donates more bottled water and extends logistical support . Damm Corporate . 5 February 2022 . en.
- Web site: Así es como Damm conquistó el Mediterráneo con la cerveza Estrella de Levante . . 5 February 2022 . es . 23 August 2020.
- Web site: Estrella de Levante es la primera empresa del sector alimentario de España que certifica su huella hídrica . iAgua . 5 February 2022 . es . 5 November 2014.
- González-Pacanowska . Dolores . 2014-09-01 . La dUTPasa, una NTP-pirofosfatasa todo-α que controla el nivel de uracilo en el ADN . 10.18567/sebbmdiv_anc.2014.09.1 . subscription .
- Rodero . Emma . 2020-05-07 . La radio: el medio que mejor se comporta en las crisis. Hábitos de escucha, consumo y percepción de los oyentes de radio durante el confinamiento por el Covid-19 . El Profesional de la Información . 29 . 3 . 10.3145/epi.2020.may.06 . 219179067 . 1699-2407. free . 10230/44567 . free .
- Web site: Carlsberg to sell Eagle Brewery to Spain's S.A Damm . 8 November 2022 .
- Web site: Cuando la cerveza era una bebida para niños. El Pais. 2014-10-18.
