Sociedad Anónima Damm is a Spanish

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founded in

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

in 1876 by the Alsatian August Kuentzmann Damm and Joseph Damm. It is the main brewery in the city.

Products

Its best known beer products include the following four: *

Estrella Damm Estrella Damm (, ) is a lager beer brewed in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It has existed since 1876, when August Küntzmann Damm founded his brewery in Barcelona, and is the flagship beer of S.A. Damm, a prominent brewery in the city. The brand ...

, formerly "Estrella Dorada", a pale beer, one of the most popular beers in the Barcelona area. It has been brewed since 1876. Its bottles and caps used to display a characteristic golden star on white ground. Now the star on the cans is on a red background. * Voll-Damm imitates a German-style

Märzen ''Märzen'' () or ''Märzenbier'' () is a lager that originated in Bavaria, Germany. It has a medium to full body and may vary in colour from pale through amber to dark brown. It was the beer traditionally served at the Munich Oktoberfest. The g ...

beer. It has more body and a higher alcohol content than Estrella. Its dark-green coloured labels display writing in the Gothic script. * Xibeca is a low-alcohol grade table-beer coming in large, low-priced one-liter bottles. "Xibeca" was meant to be consumed along with meals, as a cheap substitute for red table wine when the prices of table wines rose at the end of the 1960s. It was very popular among the low-middle class in Catalonia during the 1970s. * Estrella Levante (es) ''Clásica'' is a pilsner lager produced in Espinardo,

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. It has been brewed since 1963. Other beers are ''Especial'', ''Skol'', and ''Punta del Este''. Other Damm products include Inedit, Bock Damm, Free-Damm, A.K. Damm, among others. Damm also produces a range of

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-reduced beers under the

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label, including a

Lager Lager (; ) is a Type of beer, style of beer brewed and Brewing#Conditioning, conditioned at low temperature. Lagers can be Pale lager, pale, Amber lager, amber, or Dark lager, dark. Pale lager is the most widely consumed and commercially availab ...

and a

Corporate Activity

In 2018, the shareholding was formed by the Canarian oil company Disa Corporación Petrolífera (33%), owned by the Carceller family, the German food group Dr. Oetker (25%), Seegrund (13.95%), also controlled by the Carceller family and Demetrio Carceller Arce himself (0.083%). The rest of the company's shareholders are several historical families and descendants of the founder, August Kuentzmann Damm, La Moràvia d'Inversions (Armadàs family, 6%) and Boag Valores (Agenjo family, 5%). In 2022, Carlsberg Marstons Brewing Company announced it will sell the Eagle Brewery in

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to S.A. Damm. The Eagle Brewery has packaged Estrella Damm since 2010.

Sponsorship

During the heyday of

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in Spain in the 1950s and 1960s, Damm sponsored a local baseball team, Picadero Damm. During the 1960s, Damm was also known for marketing its beer to all members of the family, including children.

Shareholders

Stockholdings

References

External links

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