Mitchells & Butlers Ltd
Mitchells & Butlers Ltd, Cape Hill Brewery, Cape Hill, Smethwick, West Midlands.
Registered in January 1895.
Result of the merger between Butler's Crown Brewery Ltd and Henry Mitchell & Co. Ltd. with 130 houses in 1898 to form Mitchells & Butlers Ltd.
They acquired Darby's Brewery Ltd of Greets Green in 1951 with over 100 public houses and closed it in 1968.
Merged with Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton Ltd in 1961 to form Bass, Mitchells & Butlers Ltd.
In 1965, they acquired Hunt, Edmunds & Co. Ltd of Banbury with 187 public houses. Brewing ceased there on 1 May 1967.
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