The Carlsberg brewery group is selling its German brewery at Braunschweig, the company’s German communication officer, Udo Dewies, told the daily Børsen today
»We are negotiating with several potential purchasers. The negotiations progressed further last week, but I cannot say how close we may be to a conclusion,« he said.
The announcement came shortly after Carlsberg’s divestiture of its Norwegian brewery Arendal. Carlsberg has earlier said that it intends to shut down breweries at Leeds in UK and at Pori in Finland.
The sale of the German brewery is part of Carlsberg’s adjustment strategy in Europe. Here some breweries are strategically important while others are support breweries which will, in the longer term, be shut down.
The British analyst Mathew Webb at Cazenove has earlier estimated that Carlsberg could save DKK 400-50 million annually if the brewery shuts down seven of its so-called support breweries – including the Braunschweig brewery. Direkt/BNS
»We are negotiating with several potential purchasers. The negotiations progressed further last week, but I cannot say how close we may be to a conclusion,« he said.
The announcement came shortly after Carlsberg’s divestiture of its Norwegian brewery Arendal. Carlsberg has earlier said that it intends to shut down breweries at Leeds in UK and at Pori in Finland.
The sale of the German brewery is part of Carlsberg’s adjustment strategy in Europe. Here some breweries are strategically important while others are support breweries which will, in the longer term, be shut down.
The British analyst Mathew Webb at Cazenove has earlier estimated that Carlsberg could save DKK 400-50 million annually if the brewery shuts down seven of its so-called support breweries – including the Braunschweig brewery. Direkt/BNS
