Fuller, Smith and Turner
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| Industry | Brewing |
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| Founded | 1845 |
| Founder | John Bird Fuller, Henry Smith and John Turner |
| Headquarters | Chiswick, London, United Kingdom |
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Key people
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Simon Emeny, Chief Executive |
| Products | Beer |
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Production output
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215,000 UK barrels (in FY2013) |
| Revenue | £288m (FY2014) |
| Divisions | Fuller's Beer Company, Fuller's Inns |
| Website | http://www.fullers.co.uk/ |
Simon Emeny, Chief Executive
Michael Turner, Non-Exec. Chair
James Douglas, Finance
Richard Fuller, Corp. Affairs
Simon Dodd, MD - Beer
Fuller's Brewery (Fuller, Smith & Turner plc) is an independent family regional brewery founded in 1845 in Chiswick, West London.
John Fuller's Griffin Brewery dates from 1816; in 1845, his son, John Bird Fuller was joined by Henry Smith and John Turner to give the company its full name. The company's beers include London Pride.
Fuller's owns and operates over 380 pubs, inns and hotels across the south of England.
Beer has been brewed on Fuller's historic Griffin Brewery site in Chiswick since the seventeenth century. From the original brewery in the gardens of Bedford House on Chiswick Mall, the business expanded and thrived until the early part of the nineteenth century. Money problems forced the owners, Douglas and Henry Thompson and Philip Wood, to seek a partner. John Fuller, of Neston Park, Wiltshire was approached to see if he would inject the required amount of money. In 1829 he joined the enterprise, but the partnership proved a difficult one and in 1841 Douglas Thompson fled to France and the partnership was dissolved. It soon became apparent that it was impossible for one man with no brewing experience to run a brewery of that size alone so in 1845 John Fuller's son, John Bird Fuller, was joined by Henry Smith from the Romford Brewery of Ind & Smith and his brother-in-law, Head Brewer John Turner, thereby forming Fuller Smith & Turner.
The first record of the Griffin Brewery in Chiswick dates from 1816, when one of the owners of the company at the time, Douglas Thompson, acquired the name from a failed brewery (Meux & Reid) in the City of London. As well as its range of beers, The Griffin Brewery, on the A4 in Chiswick, is famous for having the oldest wisteria plant in the UK, planted in the early 19th century. The public can take a guided tour of the site.
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