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...Boase said he had not given much thought to the possibility of selling Lucky Saint to one of the big brewers, which in recent years have snapped up smaller craft brewers....
...Their Associate Brewer programme started out with three other brewers that they knew from the home-brewing club, including Adam Henderson and Matt Kohlen from Superflux....
...The World Cup and Christmas are expected to provide a seasonal boost, and not all pub groups are suffering: in the 10 weeks to December 3, like-for-like sales at Mitchells & Butlers, the UK’s largest listed...
...“If people don’t come out because it’s too expensive that’s bad,” said pub group Mitchells & Butlers’ chief executive, Phil Urban....
...So far, he added, brewers had increased the price of beer for pubs by about 7 per cent....
...James Watt, managing director of brewer and bar chain BrewDog, said the company was expecting a particularly “big weekend” in Scotland, where remaining restrictions were dropped on Monday....
...However, the Wolverhampton-based brewer and pub operator said it had seen “encouraging” signs since outdoor hospitality reopened in April....
...“The human desire to meet over a beer or a drink in a bar or a restaurant is universal at all times,” the brewer’s chief executive Dolf van den Brink said last week....
...Wetherspoon said 780 of its 870 pubs would serve beers from local brewers at £1.99 in an effort to promote real ale from small breweries rather than celebrate the easing of restrictions....
...Small craft brewers are struggling to find manpower....
...China-focused brewer Budweiser Apac and Anta Sports, a Chinese sports equipment producer, were also added....
...James Calder, chief executive of the Society for Independent Brewers, warned that the government’s “unjustified restriction” on pubs selling takeaway drinks stopped small breweries’ only source of income...
...Last week, Greene King, Fuller’s, City Pub Company and Young’s announced more than 2,100 job cuts between them, while Mitchells & Butlers said on Tuesday that it was starting a round of redundancy consultations...
...and Star Pubs & Bars, a division of the brewer Heineken....
...In 1990, Belben and Eyre secured the lease on The Eagle, an unpretentious but elegant Victorian tavern in Clerkenwell two miles from the West End, from brewer Banks & Taylor’s....
...Marston’s and Mitchell’s & Butlers are exceptions. Debts are higher at both. Interest was barely covered by operating profits at Marston’s last year. It holds cash of just £40m....
...The world’s largest brewer isn’t axing the payout altogether, but it is cutting the amount by half. It has also delayed its annual shareholder meeting from April 29 to June 3....
...Bass, the 242-year-old brewer broken up by Interbrew in 2000, provided a foundation for InterContinental Hotels as well as pubs operator Mitchells & Butlers and soft-drink maker Britvic, which both maintain...
...Check out this profile of Li by the FT’s Tom Mitchell....
...Mitchells & Butlers, which does not brew beer but operates about 1,750 taverns and owns the old Bass pub estate, is worth just over £1bn....
...But he also studied at another bar — an independent pub in Muswell Hill, London, that was not tied to a brewer and served Ruddles County bitter....
...Meanwhile, sales at UK brewer and pub operator Marston’s grew, despite the Euro 2016-effect having a similar negative impact on sales in some outlets....
...between Greene King, which operates about 1,900 pubs, restaurants and hotels, and Spirit, which owns about 1,200 sites, would create the UK’s biggest managed pubs company, overtaking All Bar One owner Mitchells...
...cost savings, synergies and the conversion of Orchid pubs to Mitchells & Butlers brands.”...
...Mitchells & Butlers, which serves 130m meals a year, said restaurants were affected by the World Cup impact as it announced a meagre set of third-quarter numbers....
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