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Coors Brewers Limited, later known as Molson Coors Brewing Company (UK) Limited, is the UK arm of
Molson Coors Beverage Company Molson Coors Beverage Company is a Canadian-American Multinational corporation, multinational Drink industry, drink and brewing company, brewing company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Molson Coors was formed in 2005 through the merger of Mo ...
. Its headquarters is in
Burton upon Trent Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a market town in the borough of East Staffordshire in the county of Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 censu ...
, Staffordshire. The company originates from Bass Brewers Limited. The company has gone through many name changes and mergers.


History

The company originates from Bass Brewers Limited founded in 1777. In 1926 Bass Brewery merged with William Worthington's. The company was purchased in 2000 by
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and then forced to change its name due to the purchase by Coors in 2002, as
Interbrew Interbrew is subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV is based in Breda, Netherlands. It has one subsidiary, Ambev S.A. of São Paulo, Brazil. Brands Interbrew brands have historically included Budweiser, Stella Artois, Boddingtons Brewery, Boddi ...
kept the name
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. In 2009 following the merger between Molson and Coors in 2006, Coors Brewers Limited changed its name to Molson Coors Brewing Company (UK) Ltd. The operations in England are now part of Molson Coors Europe.


Brands

Coors' brands are shown below. Prominently it owns the sole contract to produce Carling in the UK; it also produces namely Coors and Doom Bar. Brands include: * Aspall *
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*Caffreys *Carling *Carling Premier *Carling Cider *Cobra *Coors *Franciscan Well *Hop Stuff * Madrí Excepcional (collaboration with La Sagra brewery) *Miller Genuine Draft *Mitchells and Butlers Brew XI *Mitchells and Butlers Mild *Molson Canadian *Pravha * Staropramen * Stones Bitter * Sharp's *Three Fold Hard Seltzer * Worthington Bitter *Worthington E *Worthington White Shield The company imports / distributes: *Bavaria *Bavaria 0.0 *Bodega Bay Hard Seltzer * Rekorderlig Cider


Sites

The UK arm of the company has three main sites: Burton Brewery containing an additional
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facility (formerly AllBrew's Maltings), which is currently out of action and
Tadcaster Tadcaster is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, north-east of Leeds and south-west of York. Its historical importance from Roman times onward was largely as the lowest road crossing-point o ...
Brewery. Burton is the largest site followed by Tadcaster. Shobnall Maltings provides the
malt Malt is any cereal grain that has been made to germinate by soaking in water and then stopped from germinating further by drying with hot air, a process known as "malting". Malted grain is used to make beer, whisky, malted milk, malt vinegar, ...
for all their UK sites and many other breweries in the UK. Also Burton Brewery houses the
National Brewery Centre The National Brewery Centre (formerly the Bass Museum of Brewing and later the Coors Visitor Center) was a museum and tourist attraction adjacent to the Bass Brewery in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England. The centre celebrated the brewing ...
(formerly 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 Barley (), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. It was one of the first cultivated grains; it was domesticated in the Fertile Crescent around 9000 BC, giving it nonshattering spikele ...
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 COBRA or Cobra, often stylized as CoBrA, was a European avant-garde art group active from 1948 to 1951. The name was coined in 1948 by Christian Dotremont from the initials of the members' home countries' capital cities: Copenhagen (Co), Brussels ...
, and is running contracts for
Scottish & Newcastle Scottish & Newcastle plc was a brewing company headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, which expanded from its home base to become an international business with beer volumes growing almost tenfold. The company was listed on the London Stock Exc ...
and
Magners Cider Magners Irish Cider is a brand of cider produced in County Tipperary in Ireland by the C&C Group. The product range includes the cider varieties: Original, Light, Berry, Pear and Rosé. The cider was originally produced as Bulmers Irish Ci ...
.


Internet operations

Coors Brewers offer their customers the option of ordering online through two websites
barbox.com
an
coorsdirect.com
barbox.com was formerly owned by Coors Brewers in a partnership with
Scottish & Newcastle Scottish & Newcastle plc was a brewing company headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, which expanded from its home base to become an international business with beer volumes growing almost tenfold. The company was listed on the London Stock Exc ...
before being acquired by iTradeNetwork. iTradeNetwork now provide the online ordering facilities for Molson Coors through barbox.com and coorsdirect.com


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Molson Coors Brewing Company (UK)
Breweries in England Companies based in Burton upon Trent Molson Coors Beverage Company