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Greene King plaque on the side of a pub in Sudbury, Suffolk. The brewery was founded by Benjamin Greene in Bury St. Edmunds in 1799. [3] In Richard Wilson's biographical analysis of the Greene family, he credits various family members for being able to achieve distinction in the worlds of business and banking, literature (Graham Greene, for example) and broadcasting in the nineteenth and ...
LONDON -- Shares of Greene King gained 3 pence to 652 pence during early London trade this morning after the pub and restaurant company said its underlying retail sales improved by 3% during the ...
The 220-year-old [2] [3] pub in the centre of the town had been acquired by Greene King in 1998. The seasonal Harvey's ales were withdrawn in 2004, but the Best Bitter remained on sale because of its popularity - selling four times as much as Greene King's standard cask ales. The company's decision to finally withdraw the Best Bitter turned ...
The Old Speckled Hen logo. Old Speckled Hen is a bitter beer originally made by the Morland Brewery, but now brewed by Greene King Brewery.Old Speckled Hen was first brewed in 1979 in Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire in England, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the MG car factory there on 30 November 1979.
Benjamin Greene (5 April 1780 – 26 November 1860) was an English businessman, newspaper owner and the founder of Greene King, one of the United Kingdom's largest brewing businesses. [1] He later became the owner of multiple plantations in the British West Indies and supported slavery.
A high-ranking Mexican cartel leader who faked his own death to "live a life of luxury" in California has been arrested and charged with drug trafficking, U.S. officials said Thursday.
Chef & Brewer logo Rose and Crown, a Chef & Brewer pub, Kew, London The Bear Inn, a Chef & Brewer pub, Berkswell. The Chef & Brewer collection is a collection of over 150 licensed countryside pub restaurants in the United Kingdom, owned by Greene King.
On a hot summer day in 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators calling for civil rights joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.