Personally I’m not sure you can use a small brewery growing and having to move around Sussex as justification why a move out of the region , of what was a regional brewery to some macro breweries HQ in London is ok. Of course makes business sense but THPP is kind of right with this regard.
Also...
why did they sell ? Did they give up their shares at some point in time ? I genuinely don’t know.
But difficult one, as a business owner why wouldn’t you want a pay out at some point, but agree these things rarely work out well as big global corps have no room for sentiment.
Not surprised. A small brewing operation like that would never bring economy of scale to a big macro brewer.
Same thing happened up in the Lakes with a brewery I forget - Colston Moors has been slowly reducing them down until shutting recently