Private company

Gösser

Logo: Brauerei Göss, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Brand of beer

Gösser (German pronunciation: ) beer is the main brand of Göss Brewery in Leoben, one of the largest and most-well known in Austria. The brewery is part of Brau Union, the largest Austrian brewer, whose majority shareholder is the Dutch brewing company Heineken.2 It was founded in 1860.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1860Founded1
  • Industrybrewing industry, food and tobacco industry1
  • HeadquartersLeoben1
  • Websitewww.goesser.at
  • Legal formAktiengesellschaft1

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Gösser Märzen
Photo: LeeKeoma, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons5

Gösser (German pronunciation: [ˈɡœsɐ] ) beer is the main brand of Göss Brewery in Leoben, one of the largest and most-well known in Austria. The brewery is part of Brau Union, the largest Austrian brewer, whose majority shareholder is the Dutch brewing company Heineken.2

Corporate structure

Gösser sits at the top of its group. 2 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Gösser Leoben
    • Brüder Reininghaus Brauerei Subsidiary · Austria

Built from 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 Gösser 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)

  • Brüder Reininghaus Brauerei

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

The story

Back in the Middle Ages, beer brewing was common at Göss Abbey in Styria, where a first brewmaster was documented in a 1459 deed. After the monastery's dissolution in the course of the Josephinist reforms, the tradition was resumed in 1860, when 28-year-old Max Kober, who had been a master brewer with Żywiec (Saybusch) Brewery in Galicia (present-day Poland), purchased the premises and re-established the brewery.

Göss quickly became the largest brewery in Upper Styria and by 1892 was producing ca. 60,000 barrels per year. In the 1920s the brewery began selling pasteurized beer in crown corked glass bottles permitting Gösser to market their beer outside of Austria. By 1930 the company was producing ca 340,000 barrels per year and had exceeded 850,000 barrels per year by 1973.

In 1977 Gösser joined the Steirerbrau group, which merged into rivalling Brau-Beteiligungs-AG (BBAG) in 1991. From 1993 both companies operated under Brau Union Austria. In 2003, Gösser with Brau Union was taken over by Heineken International Zoeterwoude.

From Wikipedia’s article on Gösser, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

Also owns

  • Brüder Reininghaus Brauerei

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1992Acquired Acquired by Brau Union1
  2. 1860Founded Founded1

Sources

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