Beamish responds to Kronenbourg

I received a reply from Kronenbourg to my question about the implications for the Kronenbourg brand of being associated with a brewery in the dilapidated state the Beamish and Crawford brewery is (see below). It seems Beamish have promised them they are to remedy the situation, as soon as they receive planning from the local authorities.

That's strange - in my meeting with Beamish, there was no mention of any plans submitted to any local authorities. On the contrary, what they told me was that they were aware of the problem but that they had other projects of higher priority and that there was nothing I could do to move this up their priority list. In other words it might be done if we win the lotto, several times over, and become the largest brewery in the country, and the government decides to rescind the taxes on beer but not before!

Dear Mr Raftery,

Please accept my sincere apologies for spelling your name incorrectly.

In response to your question, we have discussed the matter with Beamish & Crawford and we are satisfied that they will take action to remedy the situation as part of proposed developments at the Cork brewery, which are awaiting planning consent from the local authorities.

Yours sincerely

Kronenbourg