I read with interest the above recent article in The Publican .

In it BrewDog says it has joined the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA), of which All Gates is also a member, simply to make use of its Direct Delivery Scheme (DDS), as it says it is “the only way” it can sell to Enterprise Inns’ pubs.

I should really show the same picture as The Publican and Morning Advertiser did, of BrewDog’s M.D. James Watt when running this article, but find this lady on the left, to be far more attractive.

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I read this week in the Morning Advertiser with heavy heart that Greene King has sold the former Hardy’s and Hansons Kimberley Brewery in Nottinghamshire for an undisclosed sum. Greene King acquired Hardy’s and Hansons in 2006 and shut the brewery at the end of that year.

There was never a chance that brewing would ever take place on the site again but having now been bought by the Leicester-based Alif Group ahead of an auction due to take place; my guess is that it will simply become a vast store for this bathroom wholesaler.

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CGA Strategy is a marketing information company specialising in market stats for the On-Trade; they are based here in the North West, Stockport to be exact.

I hadn’t heard of them until recently but in the past few days several trade papers, the Morning Advertiser included, have again been quoting their latest findings on the subject of pub closures. Over the past few years, when you have read grim headlines about the number of pubs closing every week, often through the British Beer & Pub Association, (BBPA) it’s been based on CGA’s figures.

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