Hansa Borg Bryggerier AS was founded in 1997, after a merger between
Hansa Bryggeri and
Borg Bryggerier. The company is controlled by the Egenæss family (75% ownership), who owned Borg since 1905 until the merger in 1997. Other principal owners are the Swedish-based
Spendrups Bryggeri AB and Danish-based
Royal Unibrew. The brewery is Norway's second largest manufacturing and marketing of beer and mineral water. It operates three regional breweries plants located in
Bergen,
Sarpsborg,
Kristiansand and
Olden, Norway. Beer brands include
Hansa,
Waldemars,
Borg and
CB, as well as
Heineken and
Clausthaler under license. In 1999, Hansa Borg acquired
Christianssands Bryggeri (CB). This gave Hansa Borg nationwide distribution of all its three main brands of beer, as well as controlling the local markets in
Hordaland,
Østfold, and
Southern Norway. In 2005, Hansa Borg acquired
Olden Brevatn, a company that produces drinking water from a glacier in
Oldedalen. In 2024 they attempted to get into Norway's
diet soda trend by becoming an official distributor of
Faxe Kondi, but they only sold the diet versions and not the regular versions despite competition from imports of the regular versions at the
Normal store chain, and they also incorrectly marketed the diet version as the "original" version, the result being that their distribution flopped. ==References==