Overview
- Company directors and the court-appointed trustee announced that rescue negotiations collapsed and the firm must cease operations, with the decision communicated to staff after talks failed.
- About 240 employees were told on Monday that they will receive immediate, operational dismissals as the business begins a controlled shutdown.
- The brewery will keep a small team to fulfil existing orders through the end of September while all assets, including the Mannheim site, are prepared for sale to satisfy creditors.
- Eichbaum entered insolvency proceedings in October 2025 and earlier sold the Karamalz brand to Veltins, but those steps and proposed investor deals could not raise enough cash to continue operations without harming the insolvency estate.
- The union NGG is pressing for fast social‑plan talks and transfer options for workers, and the collapse highlights wider pressure on regional breweries from falling domestic and export demand and rising costs.