Heineken International
Logo since 2011
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| Naamloze vennootschap | |
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| Industry | Beverage |
| Founded | July 12, 1864 |
| Founder | Gerard Adriaan Heineken |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Jean-François van Boxmeer (Chairman/CEO) Laurence Debroux (CFO) |
| Products | Heineken brands |
| Revenue |
 €19.257 billion (2014) |
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€3.129 billion (2014) |
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| Profit |
€1.758 billion (2014) |
| Total assets |
€34.830 billion (2014) |
| Total equity |
€12.409 billion (2014) |
| Owner | Charlene de Carvalho (25%) |
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Number of employees
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76,136 (2014) |
| Website | www |
Heineken N.V. (pronounced [ˈɦɛinəkə(n)]), is a Dutch brewing company, founded in 1864 by Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam. As of 2017, Heineken owns over 165 breweries in more than 70 countries. It produces 250 international, regional, local and specialty beers and ciders and employs approximately 73,000 people.
With an annual beer production of 188.3 million hectoliters in 2015, and global revenues of 20,511 million Euros in 2015, Heineken N.V. is the number one brewer in Europe and one of the largest brewers by volume in the world. Heineken's Dutch breweries are located in Zoeterwoude, 's-Hertogenbosch and Wijlre. The original brewery in Amsterdam, closed in 1988, is preserved as a museum called Heineken Experience.
Since the merger between the two largest brewing empires in the world, Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller, in October 2016, Heineken has been the second largest brewer in the world.
The Heineken company was founded in 1864 when the 22-year-old Gerard Adriaan Heineken bought a brewery known as De Hooiberg (the haystack) in Amsterdam. In 1869 Heineken switched to the use of bottom-fermenting yeast. In 1873 the brewery's name changed to Heineken's Bierbrouwerij Maatschappij (HBM), and opened a second brewery in Rotterdam in 1874. In 1886 Dr. H. Elion, a pupil of the French chemist Louis Pasteur, developed the "Heineken A-yeast" in the Heineken laboratory. This yeast is still the key ingredient of Heineken beer.
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