Tuborg is a Danish
brewing company
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founded in 1873 on a
harbour
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in
Hellerup
Hellerup () is a very affluent district of Gentofte Municipality in the suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. The most urban part of the district is centred on Strandvejen and is bordered by Østerbro to the south and the Øresund to the east. It compr ...
, an area North of
Copenhagen, Denmark
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. Since 1970 it has been part of the
Carlsberg Group
Carlsberg A/S (; ) is a Danish multinational brewer. Founded in 1847 by J. C. Jacobsen, the company's headquarters is in Copenhagen, Denmark. Since Jacobsen's death in 1887, the majority owner of the company has been the Carlsberg Foundation. T ...
. The brewery's flagship, the Tuborg
pilsner
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, was brewed for the first time in 1880.
History
The name ''Tuborg'' comes from ''Thuesborg'' ("Thue's castle"), a
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...
inn from the 1690s situated in the area of the brewery. This evolved and was adopted into local placenames, such as ''Lille Tuborg'' and ''Store Tuborg''. ''Tuborgvej'' in Copenhagen is named after the site of the original Tuborg brewery.
Philip Heyman
Philip Wulff Heyman (5 November 1837 – 15 December 1893) was a Jewish Danish industrialist who co-founded the Tuborg Brewery. He was also a pioneer of Danish butter and bacon exports to the United Kingdom.
Early life
Heyman was born on 5 Novem ...
(5 November 1837 – 15 December 1893) was a Danish-Jewish industrialist who co-founded in 1873 the Tuborg Brewery, together with
C. F. Tietgen,
Gustav Brock aand
Rudolph Puggaard
Rudolph Puggaard (7 January 1818 – 9 December 1885) was a Danish merchant, patron of the arts and philanthropist.
Early life and education
Puggaard was born into a family of merchants on 7 January 1818 in Copenhagen. His father, Hans Puggaard ...
. After Heyman's death, the Tuborg Brewery merged with "De Forenede Bryggerier" in 1894, which through this way entered into a profit-sharing agreement with
Carlsberg in 1903. In the company, after the founder's death, the CEO was his Jewish son-in-law,
Benny Dessau, and was then run by his widow and also his son
Aage Philip Heyman
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*Aage Bendixen (1887–1973), Danish actor
*Aage Berntsen (1885–1952) ...
.
Beers
Tuborg sells a variety of beers in over 31 countries. These varieties include Tuborg Green, Tuborg Lemon, Tuborg Christmas beer, Tuborg Gold, Tuborg Red, Tuborg Twist, Tuborg Black, and Tuborg Fine Festival.
Tuborg Red was the first beer brewed by the company, in 1875. Tuborg Red is not brewed regularly but is produced once each May to salute the company's birthday. The brewery has distributed Tuborg Squash since 1936.
Marketing
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In 1990 Tuborg launched their annual
Christmas brew on the second Wednesday in November, with the marketing term "J-day"; "snestorm" (blizzard) and "snefald" (snowfall) are also used. 'J' stands for
Jul
Jul most commonly refers to:
* July, as an abbreviation for the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian calendar
Jul or JUL may also refer to:
Celebrations
* ''Jul'', Scandinavian and Germanic word for Yule
* ''Jul (Denmark)'', the Danish Yu ...
(Christmas) or
julebryg
The beer market in Denmark is dominated by the brands Carlsberg and Tuborg. Since Tuborg was acquired by Carlsberg in 1970, Carlsberg has held a near-monopoly. A number of regional breweries, however, managed to survive, and most of them merged in ...
(Christmas brew). Similarly, there is a P-day for påskebryg (Easter brew). In 1999, J-day moved to the first Friday in November. Traffic police laid out an alcohol control plan for that evening. In 2009 J-day was moved again to the last Friday in October, but in 2010 it returned to the first Friday in November.
Sponsorships
In 2008, Tuborg announced a sponsorship deal with
Reading and Leeds music festivals to become their exclusive Official Beer Partner, a position held in previous years by
Carling. In 2009, it also arranged an exclusive deal with The Download festival to be the official beer and have a dedicated stage named after the beer.
Tuborg also sponsors the
Tuborg Image Awards
The Tuborg Stage Image Awards is a televised annual music award presentation in Nepal. The event was first held in 1999. Tuborg Brewery
Tuborg is a Danish brewing company founded in 1873 on a harbour in Hellerup, an area North of Copenhagen ...
, an annual music award presentation that takes place in
Nepal
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सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...
.
See also
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Philip Heyman
Philip Wulff Heyman (5 November 1837 – 15 December 1893) was a Jewish Danish industrialist who co-founded the Tuborg Brewery. He was also a pioneer of Danish butter and bacon exports to the United Kingdom.
Early life
Heyman was born on 5 Novem ...
References
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Food and drink companies established in 1873
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Danish companies established in 1873
Carlsberg Group