Samuel Allsopp and Sons
of Burton upon Trent, Staffs
Producers of Allsopp's Beer.
1800 Benjamin Wilson Junior took his nephew Samuel Allsopp into the family business.
1807 Samuel Allsopp bought the Wilson brewery in Burton upon Trent for £7,000.
1822 He successfully copied the India Pale Ale of Hodgson, a London brewer, and business started to improve.
1830 Mention of Samuel Allsopp and his son Charles James Allsopp.[1]
1838 Samuel Allsopp died. After Samuel's death, his sons Charles James Allsopp and Henry Allsopp continued the brewery as Allsopp and Sons.
1844 Charles James Allsopp died.
1859 They built a new brewery near the railway station, which was probably the largest brewery erected at the time complete from a pre-arranged plan.[2]
1860 'Samuel Allsopp and Sons, the eminent pale ale brewers, who have three distinct establishments in Burton, occupying in all 40 acres...'[3]
1861 Allsopps was the second largest brewery after Bass.
1864 A prestigious office block was added.
1882 Henry Allsopp retired and his son Samuel Charles Allsopp took over the company.
1887 Company a public limited company.
1907 An attempt at a merger with Thomas Salt and Co and with the Burton Brewery Co failed.
1911 Allsopps went into receivership. The company was reregistered and continued trading.
1914 Acquired Showell's Brewery, Oldbury
1920 Acquired the New Victoria Brewery, Plymouth
1925 Acquired Hall's Oxford Brewery
1926 Hall's Oxford Brewery acquired 300 of their tied houses
1927 Acquired Stretton's Derby Brewery
1930 Acquired Archibald Arrol and Sons of Alloa and the Lichfield Brewery.
1934 Samuel Allsopp and Sons merged with Ind Coope to form Ind Coope and Allsopp.
1959 The Allsopp name was dropped from the title.
1961 Ind Coope was incorporated into Allied Breweries.
See Also
Sources of Information
- Wikipedia
- Trademarked. A History of Well-Known Brands - from Aertex to Wright's Coal Tar by David Newton. Pub: Sutton Publishing 2008 ISBN 978-0-7509-4590-5
- Brewery History