| Extra info | In the list of commercial companies, from November 1917, we can find the brewery under the name Nyugat-Magyarországi Serfozde és Malátagyár (West-Hungarian Brewery and Malátagyár Sopron factory), which was managed from Budapest. During the following years, it was gradually possible to dislodge the products of Austrian breweries from the areas around Sopron, and the amount of beer sold continued to increase. Unfortunately, until the conclusion of the peace treaties after the First World War, there was a lot of uncertainty in the city due to the annexation of the region to Austria, but this ceased after the referendum, in January 1923, because Sopron remained a Hungarian sovereign territory.
In the middle of the 1920s, the brewery underwent rapid development, and the amount of beer sold increased every year. At that time, the range was very wide: they sold Export, Viktória, Szent Imre, Szent Mihály, Idény and Porter beers, with different alcohol content.
The economic crisis did not escape the city, nor the brewery; From 1929, the economic decline was continuous. At the lowest point, the brewery's production fell to the level of 30 years before, at which time the Sopron and K?szeg factories were merged based on the decision of the shareholders, in order to avoid further losses.
From the end of the year, after the economy recovered, another successful period followed. In the early 1940s, beer consumption grew at an unprecedented rate, the brewery in Sopron increased its production, but even with the improvements and expansion of the factory, they could hardly satisfy the needs. In 1942, the factory recorded record sales of 44,000 hectoliters of beer, of which approx. 90% was sold in barrels and 10% in bottles.
However, the dark clouds gradually began to gather on the horizon, which in the II. they showed the approach of World War II. In 1943, tangible signs of this could already be seen in Sopron |
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