Coors Brewers

Molson Coors Brewing Company (UK) is the UK arm of Molson Coors Brewing Company. Its headquarters is in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, the company originates from Bass Brewers Limited. The company, which has gone through many name changes and mergers ^[1], is now part of Molson Coors Brewing Company, with headquarters in Denver,(MillerCoors) Toronto, and Burton-upon-Trent.

History

The company originates from Bass Brewers Limited founded in 1777. In 1926 Bass Brewers Limited merged with William Worthingtons. The company was purchased in 2000 by Interbrew and then forced to change its name due to the purchase by Coors in 2002^[2], as Interbrew kept the name Bass.

In 2009 following the merger between Molson and Coors in 2006, Coors Brewers Limited changed its name to Molson Coors Brewing Company (UK) Ltd.

Brands

The Company has several brands under its belt. Prominently it owns the sole contract to produce Carling in the UK; it also produces namely Coors Light and Grolsch.

Brands Include:

Carling Carling C2 Carling Premier Coors Light Grolsch

Grolsch Weizen Grolsch Blonde Hoopers Reef Vodka Mixes Mitchells and Butlers Brew XI Mitchells and Butlers Mild Stones Bitter

Worthington Best Bitter Worthington Cream Flow Worthington E (Limited Runs) Worthington White Shield Cobra

Also the company imports Sol, Zatec and Kasteel-Kru.

Sites

The UK arm of the company has three main sites: Burton Brewery containing an additional maltings facility (formerly AllBrew’s Maltings), which is currently out of action, Alton Brewery, and Tadcaster Brewery. Burton is the largest site followed by Alton and then Tadcaster. An additional Site that should be included is Shobnall Maltings, this provides the Malt for all of the UK sites and many other Breweries in the UK. Also Burton Brewery houses the former (now closed) Coors Visitor Centre within the museum complex is the White Shield Brewery, this brews all special and limited run beers and also is the sole production site for Worthington White Shield.

The company has the capacity to turn the barley into malt, and brew, bottle, can, keg and cask beer.

The Company currently the 5th largest brewer in the world with a 20% market share has recently bought out the majority share in Cobra, and is running contracts for Scottish & Newcastle and Magners Cider.

Internet Operations

Coors Brewers offer their customers the option of ordering online through two websites; barbox.com and coorsdirect.com. barbox.com was formally owned by Coors Brewers in a partnership with Scottish & Newcastle before being aqquired by iTradeNetwork. iTradeNetwork now provide the online ordering facilities for Molson Coors through barbox.com and coorsdirect.com

References

1. ^ Merger of Molson and Coors
2. ^ Molson Coors Brewing Company (UK) History

External links

• Molson Coors Brewing Company (UK)