Private company

Švyturys-Utenos alus, UAB

Beverage company based in Lithuania

Švyturys-Utenos Alus UAB is a Lithuanian beverage company. It comprises the two largest breweries in Lithuania – Švyturys in Klaipėda and Utenos Alus in Utena – and specialised establishments nationwide. In 1999, most of the shares in Lithuania's two leading breweries were bought by Denmark-based Carlsberg A/S, the world's fourth-largest beer producer.2 It employed 363 people in 2024.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1784Founded1
  • Industrybeverage industry, brewing industry1
  • HeadquartersVilnius1
  • Legal formpublic limited liability company, private limited liability company1

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Švyturys-Utenos Alus UAB is a Lithuanian beverage company. It comprises the two largest breweries in Lithuania – Švyturys in Klaipėda and Utenos Alus in Utena – and specialised establishments nationwide.2

Products and brands

Švyturys-Utenos Alus makes the following products: beer, beer cocktails, cider, alcoholic cocktails, drinking water, soft drinks and kvass.

Trademarks of Švyturys-Utenos Alus:

Švyturys beer;

Utenos beer;

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Carlsberg beer;

Blindos beer;

D-light beer cocktails;

Kiss cider;

Somersby cider;

Zip alcoholic cocktails;

Vichy Classique drinking water;

Vichy Fresh soft drinks;

Vichy Juicy soft drinks;

Vichy Classique Vivasport soft drinks.

From Wikipedia’s article on Švyturys-Utenos alus, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

Former owners and parents

  • Carlsberg Breweries A/S until 2002

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Employees over time

  • 20243631

Timeline

  1. 1784Founded Founded1

Sources

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