Swinkels Family Brewers

Swinkels Family Breweries N.V. is the holding company of Bavaria N.V. and, as an independent family-owned brewery, has a unique position on the international beer market. The company has been run by the Swinkels family for seven generations. The Lieshout-based company works closely together with the Trappist brewery de Koningshoeven and the De Molen brewery. Since 2015 the brewery has - together with 8,000 local shareholders - produced a beer in Ethiopia called Habesha. Because the company has two of its own malt-houses, the entire brewery process is still in-house. Swinkels Family Breweries N.V. is the only major brewery in the Netherlands that brews its beer with pure, natural mineral water from its own springs. This characterises the company's most important philosophy: consistently high quality of its beers. Of the six million hectolitres annually brewed by the Brabant-based organisation, 65% is destined for the foreign market. In the meantime, more than 120 countries are enjoying the beers made by Swinkels Family Breweries N.V. In 2015 Bavaria N.V. received the IMD-Lombard Odier Global Family Business Award, hence selecting Bavaria N.V. as the world's best family-owned company. The goal of this honour is to stress and promote the indispensable role of family-owned businesses in the world economy. The award is given to family-owned companies that unite family interests with business interests and tradition and innovation.