Tuborg is a Danish
brewing company founded in 1873 on a
harbour
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in
Hellerup
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, to the north of
Copenhagen, Denmark. Since 1970 it has been part of the
Carlsberg Group
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. The brewery's flagship, the Tuborg
pilsner
Pilsner (also pilsener or simply pils) is a type of pale lager. It takes its name from the Bohemian city of Plzeň (), where the world's first pale lager (now known as Pilsner Urquell) was produced in 1842 by Pilsner Urquell Brewery.
History
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, was brewed for the first time in 1880.
History
The name ''Tuborg'' comes from ''Thuesborg'' ("Thue's castle"), a
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...
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.
Philip Heyman (5 November 1837 – 15 December 1893) was a Danish-Jewish industrialist who co-founded in 1873 the Tuborg Brewery, together with
C. F. Tietgen,
Gustav Brock aand
Rudolph Puggaard. After Heyman's death, the Tuborg Brewery merged with "De Forenede Bryggerier" in 1894, which through this way entered into a profit-sharing agreement with
Carlsberg in 1903. Benny Desau, Heyman's son-in-law, was a director of De Forenede Bryggerier, followed by his son Einar Dessau in 1919.

During the
Occupation, because of his Jewish background, Einar Dessau had to flee to
Sweden
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in November
1943
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
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* January 4 � ...
, where he joined the
resistance work. After the war, he resumed his position at Tuborg.

In the last year of the war, Tuborg's boiler house was destroyed on the 5 January, or
schalburgtage, but beer deliveries could still be continued the next day thanks to outside help.
Marketing
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In 1990 Tuborg launched their annual
Christmas brew on the second Wednesday in November, with the marketing term "
J-day"; "snestorm" (blizzard) and "snefald" (snowfall) are also used. 'J' stands for
Jul (Christmas) or
julebryg (Christmas brew). Similarly, there is a P-day for påskebryg (Easter brew). In 1999, J-day moved to the first Friday in November. Traffic police laid out an alcohol control plan for that evening. In 2009 J-day was moved again to the last Friday in October, but in 2010 it returned to the first Friday in November.
In 2022, Tuborg collaborated with Chinese rappers in a project called "Why Not!".
Sponsorships
In 2008, Tuborg announced a sponsorship deal with
Reading and Leeds music festivals to become their exclusive Official Beer Partner, a position held in previous years by
Carling. In 2009, it also arranged an exclusive deal with The Download festival to be the official beer and have a dedicated stage named after the beer.
Tuborg also sponsors the
Tuborg Image Awards, an annual music award presentation that takes place in
Nepal
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.
See also
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Philip Heyman
References
External links
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Tuborg
Carlsberg brands
Breweries in Denmark
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Food and drink companies established in 1873
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Danish companies established in 1873
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