Danish-based beer-maker the Carlsberg Group has announced it will close its brewery in Leeds, bringing almost 200 years of production at the site to an end and putting 170 people out of a job.
The company, which makes Carlsberg, Carlsberg Export and Carlsberg Elephant, said “it can no longer justify running two major breweries in the UK.” It will close the brewery in 2011. Its other is in Northampton. Tetley beers are also brewed at the site in Leeds which has been producing since 1822. The closure news came…
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