Due to competition from other Prague breweries, the brand name Staropramen, which translates as "old spring" (water source), was registered in 1911.

[3] Under communist rule after the Second World War, all Czechoslovakian breweries were nationalised, including Staropramen.

[4] Bass brought Ostravar into the group in 1997, then in 2000 sold its brewing operations to Interbrew, which merged with AmBev in 2004 to form Inbev.

Staropramen has seen steady growth and is currently the Czech Republic's second largest beer producer with a 15.3% share of the domestic market.

[5] In mid October 2009, private equity fund CVC Capital Partners bought all of Anheuser–Busch InBev's holdings in Central Europe (including Staropramen) for €2.23 billion.