Greene King volition adjacent its 200-year-old brewery successful Bury St Edmunds and unfastened a caller £40million installation successful its spot arsenic portion of an ambitious bid to 'modernise' and put successful the aboriginal of British brewing.
The brewer known for Abbot Ale and Old Speckled Hen, arsenic good arsenic its nationalist concatenation of immoderate 2,700 gastropubs, was calved successful the historical Suffolk marketplace municipality successful 1799 but sold to Hong Kong's richest household successful 2019 for a whopping £2.7billion.
The institution says its caller installation represents a 'major commitment' to the 'future of British brewing', evolving with the times portion staying existent to its 220 twelvemonth history.
'This concern represents a further and important ongoing committedness to our brewing operations successful a municipality which has specified a affluent and storied transportation with our concern and with brewing,' said Nick Mackenzie, CEO astatine Greene King.
'As we question to marque our operations much sustainable, our caller brewery volition aboriginal impervious our quality to brew our much-loved brands, arsenic we make a thriving modern hospitality business.'
Greene King expects the caller hub volition beryllium completed by 2027, and assured that operations would proceed astatine the existing Westgate brewery until then.
The brewery successful the historical municipality of Bury volition beryllium replaced by a custom-built £40mn facility
Greene King plans to unfastened a brewing hub (rendering pictured) adjacent its caller organisation centre
Under the caller plans, astir of Greene King's brewing operations volition transportation to the £40mn facility, adjacent to its caller organisation centre.
The institution did not specify if oregon however jobs mightiness beryllium affected by the move.
The determination received enactment from section officials, Jo Churchill, MP for Bury St Edmunds commenting: 'Greene King is astatine the bosom of our Bury St Edmunds community, and has been for much than 2 centuries.
'Building a modern, much sustainable brewery that looks to the aboriginal volition bring galore benefits.
'It is superb to spot the institution perpetrate to the aboriginal of its operations successful the municipality and surrounding areas, supporting hundreds of jobs and maintaining the town's practice arsenic a pillar of British brewing.'
Councillor Cliff Waterman, Leader of West Suffolk Council, added: 'Greene King has been an integral portion of Bury St. Edmunds for much than 200 years, and it is fantastic to spot their continued committedness to the municipality done the connection for a state-of-the-art caller brewery that volition aboriginal impervious their brewing operations for galore years to come.'
With a marque caller facility, Greene King claims it volition beryllium capable to chopped h2o usage successful the brewing process by much than 50 per cent.
They accidental it comes arsenic portion of a wider program to scope nett zero by 2040, and halve emissions by 2030.
Earlier this period the institution celebrated winning the 'Best Sustainable Pub Company' astatine the 2024 Publican Awards, dubbed the industry's 'Oscars'.
Greene King has taken ambitious strides guardant since its acquisition into a planetary concern empire guided by 'Hong Kong's richest man', 95-year-old Li Ka-shing.
His conglomerate, Cheung Kong Holdings, merged with Hutchinson Whampoa to go CK Hutchison Holdings successful 2015, with important stakes successful monolithic infrastructure projects worldwide.
Ka-shing remains a elder advisor astatine the firm, reportedly worthy much than $37billion USD.
CK Hutchison Group Telecom besides operates 3 successful the United Kingdom, and Superdrug among different apical planetary retail brands.
Li Ka-shing besides presides implicit 1 of the biggest backstage foundations successful the world, paying retired foundation donations of immoderate £3.8bn USD.
Having ridden retired the pandemic, Greene King contiguous employees immoderate 39,000 radical crossed its thousands of locations nationwide.
'We person been brewing successful Bury St Edmunds for implicit 200 years,' said Matt Starbuck, managing manager Brewing & Brands astatine Greene King.
'We are passionate astir our trade and the improvement of this state-of-the-art installation volition let america to support brewing astatine the halfway of our concern going forwards.
'We are excited by the accidental that this affords and the accidental to put successful innovation and the improvement of our world-class brew portfolio.”
File photo. An worker pulls a pint astatine the company's brewery successful Bury St Edmunds, Nov 2014
Greene King's caller hub volition beryllium built adjacent to its multi-million-pound organisation centre, proposed only past year.
They said astatine the clip the determination meant nary jobs would beryllium enactment astatine hazard by the transfer.
It was reported past twelvemonth 'hundreds' of radical worked for the institution successful its ancestral location of Bury.
The institution besides invested 'over £9 million' successful its historic Belhaven Brewery successful Dunbar, billing the uplift 'as further grounds of its committedness to brewing successful the UK'.
MailOnline contacted Greene King for comment.
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