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Laško Brewery
Brewery in Laško, Styria, Slovenia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Laško Brewery (Slovene: Pivovarna Laško) is the largest brewery in Slovenia. It is located in Laško and named after the town.
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The brewery was founded in 1825 by Franz Geyer, a gingerbread baker and mead producer. After World War II ended in 1945, Laško was the fifth-largest in Yugoslavia, and by 1991 it was the largest among 28 Yugoslav breweries. It lost much of the Yugoslav market in 1991 after Slovenia declared independence and during the resulting Ten-Day War, although sales rebounded during the 1990s.
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In 2016 Laško and Union were formally merged into Pivovarna Laško Union d.d. under the Owner Heineken.[1]
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