Ringnes is the largest brewer in

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. owned by the

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History

Ringnes AS was founded in 1876. The company's brewery in the

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district of

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produced its first beer in 1877. The brewery was founded by brothers Amund and Ellef Ringnes (Amund was the brewer, Ellef the administrator and salesman) together with financial director

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. Amund Ringnes (1840–1907) and Ellef Ringnes (1842–1929), were both born and grew up on the historic Ringnes farm in

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. Ringnes produces beer, soft drinks and mineral water. Ringnes has six production plants:

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(main plant Gjelleråsen),

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(EC Dahl's Brewery), Arendal (Arendals Brewery), Bodø ( Nordland brewery), Larvik ( Farris mineral water) and Imsdalen in

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(Imsdalfabrikken). The company sponsored the polar expeditions of Fridtjof Nansen and

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and funded the construction of the exploration vessel '' Fram''. During his exploration of the high Canadian Arctic in 1900, Sverdrup named three large islands after his sponsors ( Axel Heiberg Island, Amund Ringnes Island, and

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). The Geiberg Islands (Гейберга Острова) in the

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n Arctic were named after Axel Heiberg, and Ostrov Ringnes (Остров Рингнес), the largest island of the Mona group in the

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, was named after the brewery. Ringnes remained a family-owned business until 1978, when it merged with De sammensluttede Bryggerier A/S (which had been formed by the union of drinks companies Frydenlund and Schou) forming Nora Industrier. Later they also bought family-owned traditional brands as E. C. Dahls Brewery (1987), Arendals (1980) and Tou (1990). Nora in turn merged with Orkla Group in 1991. Orkla placed Ringnes into a combined business unit, together with Swedish brewer Pripps. In 2000 Orkla made a deal with

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drinks giant Carlsberg whereby Pripps Ringnes became a part of Carlsberg, in exchange for Orkla owning 40% of Carlsberg. When, in 2004, Carlsberg bought out Orkla's shares, Ringnes was for the first time entirely owned by a foreign company. Christian Ringnes, a descendant of the founders told daily business newspaper '' Dagens Næringsliv'' that "a country without a leading beer brand is like a man without potency", and called the sale a national catastrophe."Ringnes: Carlsberg buyout a national catastrophe"
'' Copenhagen Post'', 20 February 2004, URL retrieved 18 June 2006

Ringnes products

*Ringnes Pilsner *Ringnes Gold *Ringnes Platinum *Ringnes Bayer *Ringnes Julebrus *Corona Extra (bottler and distributor) *

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(bottler and distributor) *Frydenlund * Schous *Munkholm *Vørterøl * Dahls Ingefærøl *Dahls julebrus * Imsdal mountain spring water * Farris mineral water * Mozell * Eventyrbrus * Tou Eplemost * Nora Eplemost * Sino Appelsinjuice *

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(bottler and distributor) Ringnes is the sole bottler and distributor of PepsiCo beverages in Norway; these products include: *

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/ 7UPfree * Mountain Dew *

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* Lipton Ice Tea (bottler and distributor) * Gatorade (bottler and distributor)

References

External links

Ringes Corporate Webpage

Orkla ASA Corporate Webpage
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