Carlsberg has announced the closure of another iconic brewery- this time Banks’s in Wolverhampton. Around 100 jobs are at risk. Carlsberg claim that the closure is due to the loss of a contract to brew San Miguel lager and a declining market for cask beer. Operations will now be focused at Burton.
Since the creation of Carlsberg-Marstons in 2020 Jennings, Wychwood and Ringwood breweries have been closed and Eagle (Bedford) sold.
Carlsberg claims it remains committed to cask beer at Burton but in reality as CAMRA have noted it faces cost pressures, not least in the UK, and as the San Miguel contract issue underlines, global challenges.
Carlsberg have said they are open to offers for Banks’s brewery (not the brand clearly) but their record on this is poor. They said the same about Ringwood in Hampshire but reportedly failed to engage with a consortium that were prepared to make an offer.
Warinder Juss the new Labour MP for Wolverhampton has held a meeting with Paul Davies CEO of Carlsberg Marston Brewing who claimed the Banks’s site was too old to meet requirements. 114 jobs are at risk
All of which underlines the need for brewery workers to be unionised and for beer drinkers to organise and campaign
BBC Report
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