Brewery share purchase concludes

Bradford Brewery has purchased and cancelled the shareholding held by its former director Matthew Halliday.

The company is now owned by the other seven original shareholders including directors Phillip Ogg and Mark Lister, who are now overseeing the running of the company, plus three new investors.

Halliday ran the brewery on Rawson Road through to its launch in February 2015, until he left to pursue other interests. The transaction ends Halliday’s links with the company.

Ogg and Lister have restructured the business with a steady increase in wholesale beer sales. They have driven forward a number of other growth plans, including the re-launch of the Made of Bradford merchandise range.

In August, they reopened the Exchange Ale House, in Market Street, Bradford, as a Bradford Brewery bar, after taking on the lease from Trust Inns. The pub had been closed for four years and has undergone a complete refurbishment to give it a new lease of life.