Brewery drinks to acquisition of four pubs

GREATER Manchester brewery JW Lees has bought four Greene King pubs in the North West.

The Middleton-based company has acquired the Bear’s Paw in Chester, The Crown in Lymm, the Frog and Railway in Heaton Mersey, near Stockport and The Vale Royal Abbey in Delamere, near Frodsham in Cheshire.

The purchase follows JW Lees’s strategy of growing its pub estate in the North West and the pubs will now be integrated into the JW Lees business as well as benefitting from capital investment .

JW Lees was advised by Noel Moffitt of Christie & Co and Matthew O’Brien of Brabners.

William Lees-Jones, managing director of JW Lees, said: “We are proud to be welcoming four new pubs into the JW Lees family and we remain hungry for acquisitions of both managed and tenanted pubs as well as hotels in the North West.”