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Brau Union AG operates as a holding company with interests in processing and marketing beer and other beverages. Through its subsidiary, it sells Heineken, Edelweiss, Gösser, Zipfer, Amstel, Murphys, Desperados, Schlossgold and other brands in central European countries. The firm also owns the fruit juice brand Pago and the mineral water brand Gasteiner. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Linz, Austria.

Brau Union Österreich AG has achieved an important position among leading Austrian companies and holds a market share of some 50%. The brands of BRAU UNION ÖSTERREICH (such as Heineken, Gösser, Zipfer, Kaiser, Puntigamer, Reininghaus, Wieselburger, Schwechater, Edelweiss, Schlossgold) represent the greatest asset of the company besides its employees. The brands constitute a guarantee for the entire range of quality and performance their customers expect from them. The group's breweries are located in Falkenstein, Eastern Tyrol, Göss, Puntigam and Schladming, Styria, Kaltenhausen, Salzburg, Schwechat and Wieselburg Lower Austria and Zipf Upper Austria. The main objectives of the company are consolidating its brands, ensuring brand diversity and establishing long term, profitable partnerships with the food and the catering trade. BRAU UNION ÖSTERREICH pursues a customer-oriented and branched out supply policy. It sees itself as a service provider that uses synergies to apply them to increase customer benefits and service quality.