Overview
- The sale of the Weltenburger and Bischofshof brands to Schneider Weisse is scheduled to take legal effect on January 1, 2027.
- Bischofshof’s Regensburg brewery will shut at the end of 2026, affecting 56 employees, for whom socially acceptable solutions are being sought.
- Production will be consolidated at Schneider’s Kelheim site and at the Weltenburg monastery brewery, with the Bischofshof brand brewed in Kelheim.
- Weltenburg’s monastery brewery, dating to about 1050, will continue operating, and Bischofshof’s logistics unit with 21 staff will be retained.
- Bischofshof is owned by a foundation of the Diocese of Regensburg, the price was not disclosed, and the parties frame the deal as a Bavarian solution to a market that fell to about 77.5 million hectoliters last year.