Breweries and vineyards

Hospitality Databases classify breweries into three types:

• Independent brewer: brew-pubs**, craft brewers and regional brewers
• National brewer
• Global brewer

** a brew-pub is a pub that brews beer on the premises.

Hospitality Databases also splits the brewery market into:

• Breweries with no pub estate
• Breweries with a pub estate

The major pub owning brewers in the UK are Scottish & Newcastle, Greene King and Marstons. Between them they own over 6,500 pubs.

There are 27 members of the Independent Family Brewers of Britain (IFBB), which between them own over 7,000 pubs.

Hospitality Databases also supply in depth details on the head offices of all the major independent breweries/pubcos.

Vineyards

Hospitality Databases Ltd also hold details for over 150 vineyards based in the UK.