Thwaites cheers Prospect tie-up

LANCASHIRE brewer and pub operator has teamed up with Wigan’s Prospect Brewery to open a new pub.

In the first partnership deal it has done, Blackburn-based Thwaites is buying a pub, The Foresters Arms at Shevington Moor, which will be renamed and run by Prospect Brewery.

Called The SIlver Tally – the new name is in honour of the Prospect Brewery’s best selling beer and Wigan’s mining roots – a silver tally was the coin given by the miners to exchange for a meal when they had completed overtime.

The new pub will be the first for the Prospect Brewery which was founded in 2007.

Thwaites, which has 340 pubs, will also invest £80,000 in refurbishing the pub which will reopen on June 1. It will stock a range of Thwaites and Prospect Brewery’s cask ales as well as cask ciders and bottled beers.

Andrew Buchanan, director of pub operations at Thwaites said: “We’re excited about the partnership with Prospect Brewery, which is a first for Thwaites.

“The Foresters Arms has the potential to be a successful and popular pub with the right person at the helm and we’re in no doubt that Patsy Slevin and her team are the people to drive its success when it re-opens as the Silver Tally in June.

“Prospect are proven entrepreneurs, significantly growing the brewery over the past five years. The Silver Tally will provide an outlet for Prospect to showcase its beer and fulfil customer demand to further develop the business.”