Tuborg

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
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Tuborg is a Danish brewing company founded in 1873 on a harbour in Hellerup, an area north of Copenhagen, Denmark. Since 1970 it has been part of the Carlsberg Group. The brewery’s flagship, the Tuborg pilsner, was brewed for the first time in 1880.

The name Tuborg comes from Thuesborg (“Thue’s castle”), a Copenhagen 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. Tuborg’s former mineral water factory is one of only five buildings left from the old brewery complex in Hellerup.

Philip Heyman was a Danish-Jewish industrialist who co-founded the Tuborg Brewery in 1873 with C. F. Tietgen, Gustav Brock and Rudolph Puggaard. After Heyman’s death, the Tuborg Brewery merged with “De Forenede Bryggerier” in 1894 and entered into a profit-sharing agreement with Carlsberg in 1903. Outside of Denmark, Tuborg’s export beer is a well-known brand. Local production also takes place. The Tuborg brand is particularly strong in eastern European markets.