Meet our Stars
Stars of the Collection
Collection
ANNUAL REPORT 2025
Our annual reports are available online. Click on the image to see what the team got up to in 2025.
Stars
Stars of the collection
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Man and machine in colourful chalk
In 1983-1984 the artist Bessel Kok (1927-1991) drew at Heineken in Amsterdam. He was particularly fascinated by the equipment…
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Expertise from our Eastern neighbours
Founder Gerard Adriaan Heineken acquired the Amsterdam De Hooiberg (The Haystack) brewery in 1864, a decade after the…
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Horses of Heineken
Horses have been inextricably linked to Heineken beer ever since Gerard Adriaan Heineken took over the De Hooiberg brewery in…
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The technical one-stop-shop
T.B.B., Technisch Beheer Buitenland, or Technical Management Abroad, became a vital part of Heineken in the late 1950s. The…
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Hit
Four songs from four Heineken commercials are on The Heineken Hits CD sung by Bert Heerink. In the photograph you can see the CD…
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Feeling any better?
20 April 1989: Heineken’s takeover of Koninklijke Bierbrouwerij Brand NV in Wijlre was a fact. A shock wave washed throughout…
