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Some more lovely tables today. One taken from the BBPA Statistical Handbook 2018 which arrived recently the other is somewhat older.

Let's kick off with older of the two tables, wjhich shows the state of play back in the mid-1970s, when the Big Six was a boout at its peak.

Between them the Big Six owned getting on for 40,000 on licences. Now I'm not sure if that's only pubs. I suspect not. I have a feeling, given the size of the total, that there are other non-pub on licences included.

The Big Six weren't all roughly equal. Bass Charrington was significantly bigger than anyone else. They owned more pubs and their share of beer sales was larger. They had almost double the mnarket share of the two smallest, Watney and Scottish & Newcastle. The latter owned fewer pubs than the others because much of the trade in Scotland was nominally free. Though, in practice, most pubs North of the border were tied through loans.

Significantly, the Big Six between them owned almost three times as many pubs as all the other breweries combined. It should really be the Big Seven, but CAMRA generally left them out as they didn't have a tied estate. They had a diifferent model to all the other breweries, providing bottled Guinness for other breweries' pubs.




Pub ownership 1974 - 1976


Bewery
Uk Breweries
% beer sales
On Licences (1974)
% On Licences


Bass Charrington
12
20
9,256
8.15%


Allied Breweries
7
17
7,665
6.75%


Whitbread
19
13
7,865
6.92%


Watney/Grand Met
8
12
5,946
5.23%


Scottish & Newcastle
3
11
1,678
1.48%


Courage
8
9
5,921
5.21%


Guinness
1
9
0
0


Total Big Seven
58
91
38,331
33.7%


Others
89
9
13,800
12.1%


Tied Trade


52,131
45.9%


Free Trade


61,498
54.1%


Total
147
100
113,629



Source:


“The Brewing Industry, a Guide to Historical Records” by Lesley Richmond & Alison Turton.


Notes:


No. breweries and % beer sales 1976


No. on licences 1974



The situation today looks very different, with most of the large brewing groups owning no pubs. The exception being Heineken. Though two-thirds of the tied houses belong to just three breweries: Mastons, Greene King and Heineken. The latter two have estates approaching those of the BIG Six in size.



Brewery-owned pubs in 2017


Brewery
No. pubs


Adnams & Co PLC
49


Anheuser Busch Inbev UK
0


Arkell's Brewery Ltd
96


Asahi UK
4


George Bateman & Son Ltd
48


Daniel Batham & Son Ltd
11


S. A. Brain & Co Ltd
203


Brewdog
34


C & C Group PLC
0


Camerons Brewery Ltd.
58


Carlsberg UK Ltd.
0


Donnington Brewery
17


Elgood & Sons Ltd
28


Everards Brewery Ltd
172


Felinfoel Brewery Co Ltd.
73


Fuller. Smith & Turner PLC
373


Greene King PLC
3,048


Hall & Woodhouse Ltd
188


Harvey & Sons (Lewes) Ltd.
48


Heineken UK
2,836


Holden's Brewery
21


Joseph Holt Ltd.
128


Hook Noiton Brewery Co. Ltd.
36


Hydes Brewery Ltd.
53


J W Lees & Co. (Brewers) Ltd
141


Liberation Group (Butcombe)
69


Marston's PLC
1,421


McMullen & Sons Ltd.
125


Molson Coors (UK) Brewers
0


J.C. & R.H. Palmer Ltd
54


Frederlc Robinson Ltd
261


St Austell Brewery Co. Ltd
176


Shepherd Neame Ltd.
314


Samuel Smith Old Brewery
300


Timothy Taylor & Co.Ltd.
20


T & R Theakston Ltd
0


Daniel Thwaites PLC
248


Wadworth & Co Ltd.
224


Charless Wells
186


Total
11,063


Source:


BBPS Statistical Handbook 2018, pages 70 - 71.



Bass Charrington once owned almost as many pubs as the total number of brewery-owned pubs today.

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