by Darren | Wednesday, 12 April, 2023 | Beer and Cider News, Business News
Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company (CMBC) has announced a deal in which Carlsberg Group will acquire the UK rights for French beer brand Kronenbourg from Heineken UK. The transfer of the licence will be effective from 1st June. The deal will see Carlsberg Group...
by Darren | Thursday, 15 December, 2022 | Beer and Cider News, Business News
Toast Ale, the social enterprise brewery that uses surplus bakery bread, has raised more than £2 million to extend the positive impact of its business. Investors include the National Geographic Society, the impact-driven non-profit that has supported Toast since its...
by Darren | Wednesday, 25 May, 2022 | Beer and Cider News, Business News
Heineken has announced that it intends to close Edinburgh’s Caledonian Brewery. It says the business is ‘economically unviable’. Photograph: Caledonian Brewery Caledonian was founded in 1869. In 2008 it was acquired by Scottish and Newcastle, which...
by Darren | Tuesday, 5 April, 2022 | Business News, Pubs and Bars News
The Campaign for Pubs has written to the BEIS (Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy) select committee, urging it to investigate the endemic use of hostile Section 25 eviction notices by regulated pub-owning companies. Campaign chair Paul Crossman...
by Darren | Wednesday, 10 February, 2021 | Beer and Cider News, Business News
Re-organisation at Heineken will see the brewer shed 8,000 jobs around the world, it has announced. The news comes as it reports a 204m euros loss in 2020, compared with a 2.2bn euro profit the previous year. A spokesperson for Heineken in the UK said: “The closure of...