![]() However, this period of ownership only lasted until 1949 when, after a civil war, the People's Republic of China was founded. Nationalization Īfter Japan's surrender to the Allies and its retreat from China at the end of World War II, the Tsingtao Brewery was turned into a Chinese brewery under ownership of the Tsui family and supervision of the Nationalist government in Nanjing. The German share of the sales price attributable to shareholders was in the hands of the liquidators by April 2, 1921. German equity was approximately 70 percent. The Japanese military administration in Tsingtao approved the liquidation on September 9, 1916. Liquidators were appointed and it was decided the company would be sold to the Dai-Nippon Brewery ( 大日本麦酒, which in 1949 was split into Asahi Breweries and what later became Sapporo Brewery). On Augan extraordinary general meeting was held in Shanghai. ![]() įollowing the Siege of Tsingtao during World War I, Tsingtao came under Japanese military control. The first beer was served on December 22, 1904. Max Slevogt, of Slevogt & Co., Shanghai.Wrightson, of Fearon, Daniel & Co., Shanghai Alexander McLeod, of Gibb, Livingston & Co., Shanghai.John Prentice, of SC Farnham, Boyd & Co., Ltd., Shanghai.Founding members of the Supervisory Board The brewery was founded on Augas the Germania-Brauerei Tsingtao Co., Ltd ( Germania Brewery) with a paid-in capital of 400,000 Mexican silver dollars divided into 4,000 shares priced at $100 each. ![]() The brewery sold beers to mainly Europeans in China. Ltd., an English-German joint stock company based in Hong Kong which owned it until 1916. Tsingtao Brewery was founded by the Anglo-German Brewery Co. Its logo displays an image of Huilan Pavilion that stands on the end of Zhanqiao Pier, located on Qingdao's southern shore. Tsingtao is currently the sixth largest brewery in the world. In 2016, Tsingtao was the second most consumed beer globally and had reached 2.8% share of the global beer market, after its share of the world's beer market had been steadily growing by at least 0.1 percentage points every year since 2009. It was founded in 1903 by German settlers in Tsingtau ( Qingdao), Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory. ( simplified Chinese: 青岛啤酒厂 traditional Chinese: 青島啤酒廠 pinyin: Qīngdǎo Píjiǔchǎng) is China's second largest brewery, with about 15% of domestic market share and also accounts for half of China’s national beer exports.
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