Harboe Ingredients

About Harboe Ingredients

Harboes Bryggeri A/S is a Danish beverage and malt-ingredients company rooted in Skælskør and operating with a long family ownership tradition. It develops, produces, and markets beer, soft drinks, energy drinks, malt drinks, and malt-based food ingredients for customers and consumers in more than 90 markets worldwide.

The company positions itself as a value-driven, innovative producer with a strong focus on quality, freshness, and sustainability. Harboe combines its Danish base with a German brewery in Dargun to serve international markets and to support both branded business and private label activity.

Core Values

• Passion: Harboe describes its work as driven by passion for making products that create good experiences for consumers and customers.
• Respect: Respect is presented as a core part of the company culture, shaping how employees work together and how the company engages with its surroundings.
• Responsibility: The company emphasizes responsibility toward quality, society, and the environment, including long-term sustainable development and responsible business conduct.
• Innovation: Harboe highlights continuous product development, new variants, and the use of science and technology to meet changing consumer and customer needs.
• Community: The company stresses teamwork and shared success, describing itself as a business built to bring people together.

Unique Aspects

• Deep family ownership and continuity: Harboe has been family-owned and led since 1883, and the sixth generation is now responsible for day-to-day management.
• Dual-brewery footprint: The company operates breweries in Skælskør, Denmark, and Dargun, Germany, giving it production capacity and market reach across multiple regions.
• International scale: Harboe says it supplies beer and soft drinks to more than 90 markets worldwide and is one of Europe’s leading malt-extract producers.
• Strong malt-extract capability: Beyond beverages, Harboe is a major malt-extract supplier to the food industry, supported by a dedicated test bakery and customer development work in Skælskør.
• Listed company with family control: Harboes Bryggeri A/S has been listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen since 1989, while the Harboe family retains controlling influence.
• Brand and private-label strategy: The company explicitly balances growth in its own brands with a solid private-label position, giving it a mixed market model.