Swedish brewery group with heritage brands and modern operations tech
Spendrups Bryggeri is a 127-year-old Swedish brewery operating ~900 employees across production, logistics, and supply-chain functions. The tech stack reveals a traditional manufacturing footprint (Maximo, WMS, VMware) layered with modern data tooling (PySpark, dbt, Spark SQL, Microsoft Fabric) — indicating an active effort to build analytics and reporting capacity alongside core operational systems. Hiring velocity is accelerating across ops and logistics roles, with a junior-heavy intake, while active projects center on production reliability, supplier management, and a new brewery facility.
Spendrups Bryggeri, founded in 1897, is an independent, family-owned Swedish brewery operating approximately 900 employees and generating roughly 3.3 billion SEK in annual revenue. The group owns multiple production facilities and brands including Spendrups, Norrlands Guld, Mariestads, Loka, and Schweppes, alongside subsidiaries Spring Wine & Spirits, Gotlands Bryggeri, and Hellefors Bryggeri. Operations span brewing, bottling, warehousing, and logistics across Sweden. Core challenges involve seasonal demand peaks, production-line uptime, compliance with environmental regulations, and supply-chain lead times.
Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Azure, Maximo (asset management), WMS, and data tools including Spark, dbt, and Microsoft Fabric. Infrastructure runs on VMware vSphere with Veeam backup.
Key projects include a new brewery facility (Cypressen), production-line reliability improvements, supplier contact management, backup and disaster recovery implementation, and environmental data reporting.
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