Private company

Feldschlösschen

Swiss beverage company

Feldschlösschen is a Swiss beverage and brewing company based in Rheinfelden, in the German-speaking canton of Aargau, Switzerland. Founded in 1876, the company operates the biggest brewery in Switzerland by production, the Feldschlösschen Brewery. It bought out Cardinal in 1991, and became a division of Carlsberg in 2000.2 It employed 1,300 people.1 It is part of Carlsberg Group.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1876Founded1

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Feldschlösschen Bier aus Flasche
Photo: Gürkan Sengün, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

Feldschlösschen is a Swiss beverage and brewing company based in Rheinfelden, in the German-speaking canton of Aargau, Switzerland. Founded in 1876, the company operates the biggest brewery in Switzerland by production, the Feldschlösschen Brewery. It bought out Cardinal in 1991, and became a division of Carlsberg in 2000. In addition to beer, it also produces non-alcoholic beverages and mineral waters.2

Corporate structure

Feldschlösschen is part of a group headed by Carlsberg Foundation. 38 entities, 19 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

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

What it owns

What Feldschlösschen 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)

  • Cardinal Brewery

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

The story

Feldschlösschen was founded in 1876 by the brewer Theophil Roniger, the son of an innkeeper, and Mathias Wüthrich, the son of wealthy farmer. The brewery was built on Bözberg railway line. Its castle-style building, which is still maintained today, gave the brewery the name Feldschlösschen (lit. 'small castle of the field'). Converted into a joint-stock company in 1890, Feldschlösschen benefitted from its favorable location and the purchase and closure of breweries throughout Switzerland, becoming the country's largest beer producer in 1898.

In 1970s, Feldschlösschen began producing non-alcoholic beverages. It acquired the breweries Warteck in 1989 and Sibra in 1991. Feldschlösschen held a 46% share of the Swiss beer market in 1996, when it merged with Hürlimann (7% share) to form Feldschlösschen-Hürlimann Holding (FHH), which became a real estate company in 2000 after selling the beverages business to the Danish company Carlsberg.

From Wikipedia’s article on Feldschlösschen, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Products and brands

Feldschlösschen produces the following brands:

Feldschlösschen

Feldschlösschen Alcohol Free

Hürlimann (merged in 1996)

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Cardinal (acquired in 1991)

Carlsberg

Tuborg

Sommersby

Pepsi

Gurten

Valaisanne

Warteck

Castello (beer)

Schweppes

7up

Lipton Ice Tea

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Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Owners

Subsidiaries

Also owns

  • Cardinal Brewery

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1876Founded Founded1

Sources

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