Żywiec Brewery is a brewery founded in 1852 by the Habsburg family in Żywiec (German: Saybusch), at that time in Galicia, Austria-Hungary, now in Silesian Voivodeship. It was nationalised after the Second World War. The brewery was acquired by Heineken International in the mid-1990s.

The brewery founded in 1852, started brewing in 1856. Built and initially owned by Archduke Albert, Duke of Teschen and his younger brother Karl Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, and called "Zywiec Archducal Brewery". It remained in the hands of the Habsburgs until nationalisation in the post-WWII communist Poland. At the beginning of 1990s a court case was started by the descendants of the original owners, who sued the Polish government demanding $77 million compensation for the nationalisation and the use of the Habsburg family name and coat of arms for marketing purposes. The case was settled out of court on undisclosed terms in December 2005

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