Vaux and Associated Breweries
1927 Associated Breweries Ltd was incorporated to amalgamate 2 Sunderland brewery firms: North-Eastern Breweries Ltd and C. Vaux and Sons Ltd[1]
1939 Associated Breweries Ltd proposed to change from a holding company to an operating company, holding the leases of the licensed premises; the name of the company would be changed to incorporate Vaux[2]
1973 After much expansion the company was renamed Vaux Breweries Ltd
1985 Vaux Breweries plc was renamed Vaux Group plc
By 1994 the business had 3 strands:[3]
- Brewing and related activities
- Swallow Hotels, the 6th largest hotel group in the country
- St. Andrews Homes, builder and operator of care homes