The Carlsberg Story Founders, Foundations, and Fortunes
This book offers a comprehensive business history of one of the largest global brewing companies. By combining industrial history with insights from corporate management and strategy, it reveals the success story of a family-owned company that has achieve
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The Carlsberg Story Founders, Foundations, and Fortunes
The Carlsberg Story
Ditlev Tamm
The Carlsberg Story Founders, Foundations, and Fortunes English translation by Russell Dees
Ditlev Tamm University of Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark
ISBN 978-3-030-52669-6 ISBN 978-3-030-52670-2 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52670-2
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Preface
This book tells the story of the Carlsberg Breweries since their foundation in 1847. It is a story of a talented family of brewers and, at the same time, a story of early industrialism. It is a story of beer production and of how science and business met to create a new way of brewing. It is the story of how a Danish brewer started a company that ended up becoming one of the biggest international concerns in its field. It is also the very peculiar story of how a foundation run by academics could also run a big business. The story of Carlsberg presented here is based on the Danish version of the book De klogeste og skarpeste—Historien om Carlsbergfondet, bryggeriet og vores øl, which was published in Danish in 2018. It was written at the initiative of the Carlsberg Foundation’s current chairman, Professor Flemming Besenbacher. He had in mind an account of the most recent changes in the Carlsberg Foundation’s charter, which paved the way for a new global Carlsberg. That story, however, cannot be properly understood except in the context of the earlier history. This book, therefore, tells the story from the founding of Carlsberg in 1847 until now. The book is the res
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