Green King
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| Public company | |
| Traded as | : |
| Industry | Alcoholic beverage |
| Founded | 1799 |
| Headquarters | Bury St Edmunds, England |
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Key people
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Philip Yea, (chairman) Rooney Anand, (CEO) |
| Products | Beer |
| Revenue | £2,073.0 million (2016) |
| £392.2 million (2016) | |
| Profit | £190.9 million (2016) |
| Website | www.greeneking.co.uk |
Greene King is the UK's largest pub retailer and brewer. It is based in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. The company owns pubs, restaurants and hotels. It is listed on the and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
The brewery was founded by Benjamin Greene in Bury St. Edmunds in 1799. In 1806 Benjamin Greene established a new venture with William Buck at the Westgate Brewery. In 1836 Edward Greene took over the business and in 1887 it merged with Frederick William King's brewing business to create Greene King.
Greene King has grown via mergers and acquisitions, including Rayments Brewery (1961), the Magic Pub Company (1996),Hungry Horse (1996),Morland Brewery (1999), Old English Inns (2001), Morrells (2002), a large part of the Laurel Pub Company (2004),Ridley's Brewery (2005),Belhaven Brewery (2005),Hardys and Hansons (2006), the Loch Fyne fish restaurant chain (2007), Cloverleaf (2011), Realpubs (2011), the Capital Pub Company (2011) and the Spirit Pub Company (2015).
The Spirit acquisition, where Greene King bought Spirit for £773.6m, took the total number of Greene King sites to 3,116, brought 14 brands together and made Greene King the largest managed pub company in the UK. It was completed on 23 June 2015.
The Greene King brewery in Bury St Edmunds produces beers branded in the names of breweries now closed, including Morland (Old Speckled Hen), Ruddles, Hardys & Hanson and Tolly Cobbold. The Belhaven brewery in Dunbar continues to operate in Scotland.
The group operates 3,100 pubs, restaurants and hotels:
There is a visitor centre next to the brewery, and tours are run regularly throughout the week. The brewery has an exhibition of pub sign artwork by George Taylor, who designed over 250 such signs for Greene King pubs. Visitors can also go on regular hour-long tours of the brewery, to see traditional brewing methods. All brewery tours end with a beer tasting session at the Beer Café.
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