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:
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Estrella Damm
Estrella Damm is a lager beer brewed in Barcelona, Spain. It has existed since 1876, when August Küntzmann Damm founded his brewery in Barcelona, and is the flagship beer of S.A. Damm, a prominent brewery in the city. The brand is the oldest ...
, 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.
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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.
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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.
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Estrella Levante (es) ''Clásica'' is a pilsner lager produced in Espinardo,
Murcia. It has been brewed since 1963. 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%). 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%).
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.
Sponsorship
During the heyday of
baseball in Spain in the 1950s and 1960s, Damm sponsored a local baseball team,
Picadero Damm
Picadero Jockey Club, also known until 1970 as Picadero Damm for sponsorship reasons, was a Spanish multisports club from Barcelona founded in 1951.
History
Overall the club enjoyed its golden era during the 1960s. Throughout this decade its m ...
. During the 1960s, Damm was also known for marketing its beer at all members of the family, including children.
Shareholders
Stockholdings
References
External links
Official homepage
Companies established in 1876
Food and drink companies based in Barcelona
Manufacturing companies based in Barcelona
Breweries in Spain
1876 establishments in Spain
Spanish brands
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