Hungary: Carlsberg partners with Hungarian craft brewer Horizont

The local unit of Danish multinational Carlsberg is teaming up with Hungarian craft brewer Horizont Brewing, the companies told state news wire MTI. Under the cooperation, Carlsberg Hungary will become the exclusive distributor of a number of Horizontʼs beers.

Carlsberg expects to sell 300-500 hectolitres of the craft beer in the coming one to one-and-a-half years.

Horizont Brewing currently turns out some 200,000 litres of craft beer a year. It had revenues of HUF 31 million in 2016, public records show.

Carlsberg Hungary had revenues of HUF 4.8 billion in 2016.

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