Private company

Brau Holding International

Logo: paulaner-gruppe.de3

Company group based in Munich1

Paulaner Brauerei Gruppe GmbH & Co. KGaA is a holding company for several breweries in Germany. It is the sixth largest holding company of breweries in Germany, with a total production volume of 4.5 million hectolitres (3,800,000 US bbl) in 2014. It was founded in 2002 and is owned by Schörghuber Unternehmensgruppe.2 It employed 2,496 people in 2017.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2002Founded1
Paulaner-Brauerei
Photo: MyName ( Gamsbart ), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

Paulaner Brauerei Gruppe GmbH & Co. KGaA is a holding company for several breweries in Germany. It is the sixth largest holding company of breweries in Germany, with a total production volume of 4.5 million hectolitres (3,800,000 US bbl) in 2014.2

Corporate structure

Brau Holding International sits at the top of its group. 5 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Brau Holding International Munich
    • Kulmbacher Brewery Subsidiary · 63.8% · Kulmbach, Germany
    • Paulaner Brewery Subsidiary · 50% · München, Germany
      • Paulaner Brauerei Gruppe Sales & Marketing GmbH Subsidiary · München, Germany
      • Waitzinger Bräu Subsidiary · Germany

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Brau Holding International reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

Products and brands

  • beer

Listed on Wikidata.1

Kulmbacher Group

Kulmbacher Brewery, Kulmbach

Sternquell Brewery, Plauen

Würzburger Hofbräu, Würzburg

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Scherdel Brewery, Hof

Braustolz, Chemnitz

Südwest Brewery Group

Fürstenberg Brewery, Donaueschingen

Hoepfner Brewery, Karlsruhe

Schmucker Brewery, Ober-Mossau

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Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

Also owns

From Wikidata.1

Employees over time

  • 20172,4961

Timeline

  1. 2002Founded Founded1

Sources

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