Ringnes is the largest brewer in

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. Ringnes is part of the

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History

Ringnes AS was founded in 1876. The company's brewery in the

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district of

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produced its first beer in 1877. The brewery was founded by brothers Amund and Ellef Ringnes (Amund was the brewer, Ellef the administrator and salesman) together with financial director

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. Amund Ringnes (1840–1907) and Ellef Ringnes (1842–1929), were both born and grew up on the historic Ringnes farm in

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. Ringnes produces beer, soft drinks and mineral water. Ringnes has six production plants:

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(main plant Gjelleråsen),

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(EC Dahl's Brewery),

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(Arendals Brewery), Bodø (

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brewery),

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( Farris mineral water) and Imsdalen in

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(Imsdalfabrikken). The company sponsored the polar expeditions of

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and

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and funded the construction of the exploration vessel '' Fram''. During his exploration of the high Canadian Arctic in 1900, Sverdrup named three large islands after his sponsors (

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Amund Ringnes Island Amund Ringnes Island is an uninhabited island and one of the Sverdrup Islands and Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in the Arctic Ocean, between 78 and 79 degrees of latitude. It lies east of El ...

, and

Ellef Ringnes Island Ellef Ringnes Island is an uninhabited island and one of the Sverdrup Islands in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. A member of the Queen Elizabeth Islands and Arctic Archipelago, it is located in the Arctic Ocean, east of Borden Isla ...

). The Geiberg Islands (Гейберга Острова) in the

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n Arctic were named after Axel Heiberg, and Ostrov Ringnes (Остров Рингнес), the largest island of the Mona group in the

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, was named after the brewery. Ringnes remained a family-owned business until 1978, when it merged with De sammensluttede Bryggerier A/S (which had been formed by the union of drinks companies Frydenlund and Schou) forming

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. Later they also bought family-owned traditional brands as E. C. Dahls Brewery (1987), Arendals (1980) and Tou (1990). Nora in turn merged with

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in 1991. Orkla placed Ringnes into a combined business unit, together with Swedish brewer

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. In 2000 Orkla made a deal with Danish drinks giant

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whereby Pripps Ringnes became a part of Carlsberg, in exchange for Orkla owning 40% of Carlsberg. When, in 2004, Carlsberg bought out Orkla's shares, Ringnes was for the first time entirely owned by a foreign company. Christian Ringnes, a descendant of the founders told daily business newspaper ''

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'' that "a country without a leading beer brand is like a man without potency", and called the sale a national catastrophe."Ringnes: Carlsberg buyout a national catastrophe"
''

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'', 20 February 2004, URL retrieved 18 June 2006

Ringnes products

*Ringnes Pilsner *Ringnes Gold *Ringnes Platinum *Ringnes Bayer *Ringnes Julebrus *Corona Extra (bottler and distributor) *

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(bottler and distributor) *Frydenlund * Schous *Munkholm *Vørterøl * Dahls Ingefærøl *Dahls julebrus * Imsdal mountain spring water *

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mineral water * Mozell * Eventyrbrus * Tou Eplemost *Tou Pilsner * Nora Eplemost * Sino Appelsinjuice *

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(bottler and distributor) Ringnes is the sole bottler and distributor of

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beverages in Norway; these products include: *

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/ 7 Up Free *

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* Lipton Ice Tea (bottler and distributor) *

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(bottler and distributor)

References

External links

Ringes Corporate Webpage

Orkla ASA Corporate Webpage
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