Baltika Breweries

Baltika (Russian Балтика ( пивоваренная компания ) / Baltika ( piwowarennaja kompanija ) ) is the largest brewery group in the Russian Federation. She was ( St. Petersburg ) founded in Leningrad in 1990 and has quickly developed into an important economic factor for the city.

Business

Originally Baltika was a joint venture between the Finnish beverage company Hartwall and its Norwegian partner Orkla. Baltika took in 1990 to the production. Majority shareholder of the company is now the Baltic Beverages Holding ( BBH), which in turn is part of the Danish Carlsberg brewery. Breweries are located in

• Saint Petersburg
• Samara
• Khabarovsk
• Tula
• Rostov-on- Don
• Chelyabinsk ( since 2006)
• Yaroslavl (since 2006)
• Kiev, Ukraine ( since 2006)
• Novosibirsk ( since 2008)

This produced 22.7 million hectoliters of beer in 2005 together under the brand names Baltika, Arsenalnoje and Leningradskoje. Baltika beers are marketed in 38 countries. Main market is Russia and the CIS countries. In Tula Baltika has a malt factory.

Baltika had 2006 sales of 1.49 billion euros and generated a profit before tax of 260 million euros.

Baltika merged in late 2006 with the companies " Wena ", " Pikra " and " Jarpiwo ". Since then, Baltika has 10 breweries and malt houses 4 in 9 regions of Russia and employs more than 11,000 people.

In 2007, Baltika had a market share of 37.6 % in Russia.

The Baltika corporation is advised by KPMG.

President of Baltika Aktiengesellschaft since December 2011 Isaac Scheps. The native Romanian Jewish origin is thus the successor of Anton Olegovich Artyomov, who led the company from May 2005 to December 2011.

Products

Most beers of Baltika be distinguished by numbers (selection):

• Baltika 0 Besalkogolnoje ( Alcohol Free ) is a non-alcoholic beer, brewed from barley malt light
• Baltika 1 Ljogkoje ( Light ) is a light beer with only 39 calories per 100 ml, and an alcohol content of not more than 4.4 percent by volume ( not sold in Russia, but also exported to Finland in Russia replaced by Baltika Lite)
• Baltika 2 Ossoboje ( special) is a pale lager, brewed from barley malt bright, rice and " selected types of hops " ( min. 4.7% alcohol content); until mid-2010 was called Baltika 2 Swetloje ' ( Bright )
• Baltika 3 Klassitscheskoje ( Classic ) is a pale lager with 4.8% alcohol content
• Baltika 4 Originalnoje ( original ) is a 5.6 -percent amber lager, brewed from barley malt and dark rye
• Baltika 5 Solotoje (Golden ) is a lager beer, brewed from pale malt
• Baltika 6 Porter is a bottom-fermented 7 -percent dark beer that sells the brewery as " brewed according to traditional English recipes Porter"
• Baltika 7 Eksportnoje ( exports ) is a pale lager
• Baltika 8 Pschenitschnoje (wheat) is an unfiltered wheat beer
• Baltika 9 Krepkoje ( Strong ) is a strong lager with 8.0%
• Baltika Kuler ( Cooler) is a light beer with a light taste that is reminiscent of Baltika 5. The alcohol content is not less than 4.7 percent by volume
• Baltika Kuler Laim ( Cooler Lime ) is Baltika Cooler with lime flavor
• Baltika 20 Jubileinoje ( anniversary beer) is beer, produced since June 2010, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Baltika Brewery
• Baltika Rasliwnoje is a light draft beer, which was incorporated in the year 2010 in the range
• Baltika Rasliwnoje Nefiltrowannoje is a bright, unfiltered draft beer produced since 2011

The following beers of Baltika are no longer produced and therefore can only be found as collectibles:

• Baltika 12 Nowogodneje (New Year beer) was a beer that there used to buy in the winter months. It was half dark beer with 5,5% vol.
• Baltika Leningradskoje ( Leningrad ) was a light beer, which was produced in 2003 to mark the 300th anniversary of the city of Saint Petersburg.
• Baltika Medowoje Ljogkoje ( Light honey beer) was a bright, 4.1 -percent beer with a taste of honey, which could be bought only in 1.5 liter PET bottles.
• Baltika Medowoje Krepkoje ( Strong honey beer) was a powerful, 7.6 -percent beer with a taste of honey, also in 1.5 liter PET bottles. The honey beers were removed due to poor sales figures from the range.

In range are beyond exotic products such as cherry beer, but does not correspond to the German purity law.

The Baltika Brewery is always successful in European beer competitions.

Sales and production in Germany

Baltika is also available in Germany and found mostly in Russian supermarkets or beverage markets. The seat of the Baltika Germany GmbH located in Hamburg. Since August 2011, the variety Baltika 3 is produced by the brewery for Baltika royal court in Krefeld Germany, bottled and distributed from there in Central Europe.