Christian Weber new President of the "Brewers of Europe"
Christian Weber is the new President of the Brewers of Europe. Delegates from 28 countries unanimously elected the 46-year-old to head the European brewers' association at the general assembly in the Polish capital Warsaw on Tuesday. The vice presidents are Jorge Villavecchia (Barcelona, Spain) and Graham Fewkes (Copenhagen, Denmark).
Christian Weber new President of the "Brewers of Europe"
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Christian Weber is Managing Partner of Karlsberg Brauerei KG Weber, based in Homburg, Saarland, and is the fifth generation to run the family business, which was founded in 1878. Since 2023, Christian Weber has also been President of the German Brewers' Association, the largest brewers' association in Europe. With almost 1,500 breweries and an annual production of more than 8 billion liters, Germany is the largest beer producer in Europe.
At the General Assembly in Warsaw, Weber thanked his predecessor Lasse Aho from Finland, who had led the association successfully and confidently for five years in politically and economically turbulent times. "The Brewers of Europe is a powerful association that has a broad network and is well equipped for the challenges of the future. Now that the EU Commission has taken office and the European Parliament has been constituted, it is important to seek dialogue with politicians and to make the positions of the brewing industry clear - for example, in terms of reducing bureaucracy, energy or packaging policy, to name just a few of the focal points of our work. This is where I would like to make my contribution, for the benefit of all breweries," said Weber on the fringes of the conference in Warsaw.
The Brewers of Europe, an umbrella organization founded in 1958 and based in Brussels, represents the interests of more than 10,000 European breweries vis-à-vis EU institutions and international organizations. Its members are national brewers' associations and brewing groups from 28 European countries.
The new President of the European Brewers Association, Christian Weber, studied economics at the University of Edinburgh, after which he worked in the food and beverage industry abroad, including in Switzerland and Ghana. Weber later worked for Heineken in Austria. In 2010, he joined Karlsberg Holding GmbH as an authorized signatory. Since January 2024, Christian Weber has been Managing Partner of Karlsberg Brauerei KG Weber alongside his father Dr. Richard Weber. Before being elected President of the German Brewers' Association, Christian Weber was already Vice President of the DBB and the European umbrella organization Brewers of Europe. His father, Dr. Richard Weber, was also President of the European Brewers from 1992 to 1996 and was President of the German Brewers' Association from 2002 to 2008.
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