Beck's Brewery, also known as Brauerei Beck & Co., is a

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in the northern German city of

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (, ), is the capital of the States of Germany, German state of the Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (), a two-city-state consisting of the c ...

. In 2001,

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bought Brauerei Beck for 1.8 billion euros; at that time it was the fourth-largest brewer in Germany. US manufacture of Beck's has been based in St. Louis, Missouri, since early 2012. Weserstadion Agosto 2011

Since 2008, it has been owned by

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SA/NV subsidiary

. Beck's logo is derived from the coat of arms of Bremen, which contain a

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key on a red shield. The key is the attribute of

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, patron saint of the Bremen Cathedral. Beck's used Bremen's coat of arms as its logo from 1877 until 1884, when it adopted its own version using a modified key slanted in the opposite direction. The city had objected to the unmodified use of its coat of arms, as it no longer wanted to be connected with the production of alcohol. The brewery sponsored

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in Formula 1 until 2004.

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