Former large Frankfurt brewery, today a sales and administration company for the brands Binding, Henninger, Schöfferhofer and Clausthaler
Binding-Brauerei AG
Frankfurt am MainNew on Amplifa
About Binding
Binding-Brauerei AG, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, is a sales and administration company belonging to the Radeberger Group (Oetker Group) and a former brewing company. Until September 2023, the brands Binding, Henninger, Schöfferhofer Weizen and Clausthaler were brewed and bottled in the Frankfurt district of Sachsenhausen on a plant site of around 56,000 m². Production and bottling were discontinued on 21 September 2023; since then, the Binding brand has been brewed at Tucher Bräu in Nuremberg/Fürth, and Clausthaler and Schöfferhofer at the Dortmunder Actien-Brauerei. The company performs sales and administration functions and holds the brand rights. Its best-known trademark is the stylised eagle, modelled on the Frankfurt city coat of arms.
- Site
- Frankfurt am Main
- Processes
- Sales and administration functions, Holding of brand rights
- Materials
- Binding Römer Pils
- Founded
- 1870
- Employees
- 150
- Industries
- Brewery/Beverage industry
- 01
Brewery in Frankfurt Sachsenhausen (until 2023)
- 02
Sales and administration functions
- 03
Brand rights
Products & Brands
Binding Römer Pils
Beer variety of the Binding brand first tapped in 1939 and still well known today.
Sites
Frankfurt am Main
DESales and administration headquarters (since 2023)
Inside the production
Industries
Additional services
History
- 1870
On 1 August 1870, Conrad Binding purchased the small Glock brewery in Frankfurt's old town.
- 1881
Construction of a new brewery on the Sachsenhäuser Berg; takeover of the Schneider brewery on the Kornmarkt.
- 1885
Conversion into a stock corporation (Bindingsche Brauerei-Gesellschaft).
- 1899
Company named Brauerei Binding AG.
- 1905
Takeover of the Frankfurt brewery Fritz Reutlinger.
- 1919
Takeover of the Actien-Brauerei Homburg in Bad Homburg.
- 1921
Merger with the Hofbierbrauerei Schöfferhof & Frankfurter Bürgerbrauerei AG to form Schöfferhof-Binding-Bürgerbrauerei AG.
- 1939
Renamed Schöfferhof-Binding-Brauerei AG; first keg tapping of the Römer Pils brand.
- 1952
Binding becomes part of the Oetker Group.
- 1995
Establishment of the Binding Cultural Foundation on the occasion of its 125th anniversary.
- 2001
Acquisition of the distribution rights of the Henninger brewery.
- 2002
Binding-Brauerei AG is renamed Radeberger Group.
- 2022
On 29 September, the Radeberger Group announces the closure of the Binding brewery in Frankfurt am Main.
- 2023
Production and bottling discontinued as of 21 September; the Binding brand has since been brewed at Tucher Bräu in Nuremberg/Fürth.