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Type | Subsidiary | ||||
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Location | Pilsen, Czech Republic | ||||
Coordinates | 49°44′48″N 13°23′14″E / 49.74667°N 13.38722°E | ||||
Opened | 1842 | ||||
Annual production volume | 9.7 million hectolitres (8,300,000 US bbl) (2013)[1] | ||||
Revenue | CZK 15 billion (2010) | ||||
Owned by | Asahi Group Holdings | ||||
Website | pilsner-urquell | ||||
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Plzeňský Prazdroj, a. s. (pronounced [ˈpl̩zɛɲskiː ˈprazdroj a ˈɛs]) (Pilsner Urquell Brewery) is a Czech brewery which opened in 1842 in Plzeň, Bohemia. It was the first brewery to produce a pale lager, branded as Pilsner Urquell,[2] which became so popular and was so much copied that more than two-thirds of the beer produced in the world today is pale lager, sometimes named pils, pilsner and pilsener after Pilsner Urquell.[3] The brewery name, Pilsner Urquell, which can be roughly translated into English as "the original source at Pilsen", was adopted as a trademark in 1898. Pilsner Urquell is the largest producer and exporter of beer in the Czech Republic.[4]
The brewery was part of the SABMiller group of companies from 1999 to 2017. As part of agreements with regulators before Anheuser-Busch InBev was allowed to acquire SABMiller in 2016, Pilsner Urquell was sold to Japan-based Asahi Breweries in 2017.[5]