In part one of The Secret Brewer: Voluntary Administration, a brewery owner discussed a number of their concerns surrounding the impact of two years of VAs across the local beer industry.
We put a number of questions raised by the article to the people running breweries that have been through the VA process in the past 12 months and emerged with some of all of the previous ownership teams still in the business. Below are the responses of those who replied – along with comments from the CEO of the Independent Brewers Association (IBA).
Brewing is far from the only industry to have suffered in the face of the global economic woes of recent years, but its challenges have been more acute than most as small businesses have been…
