GREAT DANES TAP INTO BREWING HISTORY
I VISITED the Carlsberg Brewery in Copenhagen just before the iconic Danish beer maker moved its production facilities to Jutland in 2008. The historic weight of 160 years of brewing was everywhere. We passed under a gateway emblazoned with swastikas and the executives showing us around tried their little joke. Unfortunately for them, I and several others in the group knew there wasn't a Nazi connection and the building pre-dated Hitler’s rise to power by decades. Quite rightly, Carlsberg had incorporated the Hindu symbol for prosperity and good luck into the then-new brewery and today the company is a global powerhouse with annual sales of $10 billion.
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