The company is a significant operator in the brewing industry in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, owning its subsidiaries through Baltic Beverages Holding which initially was a joint venture between Carlsberg and Scottish & Newcastle in Russia. [13] It had a majority interest in OAO Baltika Breweries, the largest brewery in the Russian Federation and Eastern Europe. [26] In the spring of 2023, Carlsberg announced that it was leaving Russia and plans to sell its business before the end of spring. In late June, the company announced that it had closed the deal without naming a buyer. The deal is awaiting approval from the Russian authorities. [27] In July 2023, the Russian government seized the shares of the Carlsberg-owned Baltika Breweries and placed the company under the control of the Russian Federal Agency for State Property Management. [28]

Jacobsen's son Carl opened a brewery in 1882 named Ny (New) Carlsberg forcing him to rename his brewery Gamle (Old) Carlsberg. The companies were merged and run under Carl's direction in 1906 and remained so until his death in 1914. [8] Danish pilsner brewed in the UK using a Danish recipe & yeast The new Carlsberg Danish Pilsner has a fuller mouthfeel, greater smoothness and depth of flavour, with malty notes, crisp bitterness and a distinctive hop aroma a b c d e "Carlsberg A/S 2020 Annual Report" (PDF). carlsberggroup. 31 December 2020 . Retrieved 19 October 2021. Thompson, James (8 December 2011). "Jorgen Rasmussen: Right time for change of tactics? Probably..." The Independent. London . Retrieved 5 April 2013. Rigor, Ruby (1 October 1987). "New beer ad untruthful". Manila Standard. Standard Publications, Inc. p.5 . Retrieved 17 December 2020.At Carlsberg UK, we lost our way. We focused on brewing quantity, not quality; we became one of the cheapest, not the best.”

Alderman, Liz (2 March 2023). "Leave Russia? A Year Later Many Companies Can't, or Won't". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 5 July 2023. Carlsberg A/S ( / ˈ k ɑːr l z b ɜːr ɡ/; Danish: [ˈkʰɑˀlsˌpɛɐ̯ˀ]) 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. The company's flagship brand is Carlsberg (named after Jacobsen's son Carl). Other brands include Tuborg, Kronenbourg, Somersby cider, Holsten, Neptun, Belgian Grimbergen, Fix, one of Greece's oldest brands and more than 500 local beers. [6] [ failed verification] The company employs around 41,000 people, primarily in Europe and Asia. Karl McDonald, associate editor: I’m not sure drawing large amounts of attention to the supposed upcycling of Carlsberg was a good idea. My first impression of the new pilsner is that it tastes like normal beer. Conventional beer. Whatever’s cheap on tap. I would drink a few pints of it, but then I was alright with Carlsberg as it was anyway.Hajduk Split Fans Drinking Earns Club €40k Cheque From Carlsberg". Croatia Week. 28 March 2013 . Retrieved 14 December 2015. Carslberg Group - Uzbekistan". Carlsberg. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015 . Retrieved 14 December 2015. The introduction of the Carlsberg pilsner also saw the reintroduction of the Art Nouveau-style logo that has been used nearly unmodified since 1904, and later became the logo of the entire company. It was designed by Thorvald Bindesbøll. [8]

Carlsberg was brewed in Canada by Canadian Breweries/ Carling O'Keefe beginning in 1972. [35] After Carling O'Keefe was merged with Molsons, Carlsberg opened its own brewery. Since 2008, Carlsberg no longer brews Carlsberg in Canada. Instead, it imports Carlsberg along with its other brands. Our generation have trust issues because we were all raised on those awesome adverts saying Carlsberg is the best lager in the world only to finally taste the shit and realise it’s like drinking the bath water that your nan died in. In the Azerbaijan, Carlsberg is producing beer brand with the name Khirdalan. [33] North America [ edit ]Carlsberg was founded by J. C. Jacobsen, a philanthropist and avid art collector. With his fortune he amassed an art collection which is housed in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in central Copenhagen. The first brew was finished on 10 November 1847, and the export of Carlsberg beer began in 1868 with the export of one barrel to Edinburgh, Scotland. [8] Some of the company's original logos include an elephant, after which some of its lagers are named, and the swastika, [note 1] the use of which was discontinued in the 1930s because of its association with political parties in neighboring Germany. Following the announcement, a spokesperson for CMBC said that the change would remove close to 56 million units of alcohol from the UK market each year. The brewery hasn’t just strapped a new name on cans and bottles, but updated the ingredients. “Carlsberg Danish Pilsner”, the company says, provides a “crisper, fuller flavour”.