Carlsberg buys stake in French craft brewer Brasserie du Pays Flamand
France | Funny that. A month after Mathieu Lesenne, co-founder of Brasserie du Pays Flamand, told delegates at the Brewers Forum in Lille about his dilemma of growing the firm – each costly investment in kit first led to overcapacity and then to frightful issues with being out of stock – media reported on 1 July that Carlsberg, via its French subsidiary Brasseries Kronenbourg, has purchased a minority stake in his brewery.