BRITISH / UK - BODDINGTONS GOLD BITTER PINT BEER GLASS. (PRE 2006)

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BRITISH / UK - BODDINGTONS GOLD BITTER PINT BEER GLASS. (PRE 2006):
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BRITISH / UK - BODDINGTONS GOLD BITTER PINT BEER GLASS. (PRE 2006).Boddingtons Bitter (\"Boddies\") is a brand of bitter beer originally brewed in Manchester, England. It was promoted as The Cream of Manchester from the late 1980s until 2004, shortly before the Manchester brewery closed with production moving to Magor in South Wales and Salmesbury, Lancashire. Cask Boddingtons is now brewed under licence by Hydes Brewery in Moss Side, Manchester. It is currently the 6th most popular bitter in the United Kingdom, although sales have dropped by almost three quarters since the takeover by Anheuser–Busch InBev in 2000. Boddingtons has been exported since 1993 and is now sold in over 30 countries.Strangeways Brewery was founded by two grain merchants, Thomas Caister and Thomas Fry, in 1778 just north of Manchester city centre. Henry Boddington was born in 1813 in Thame, Oxfordshire to a Calvinist family. When Boddington joined the brewery in 1832 as a commercial traveller, the brewery was owned by Hole, Potter, and Harrison. By 1848 Boddington had risen to partner in the company and in 1853 he borrowed money to become the sole owner of the enterprise. By 1877, Boddingtons was brewing around 100,000 barrels of beer a year, making it not only Manchester\'s largest brewer, but one of the largest in the North of England. In 1883. When Henry Boddington died in 1886 the value of his estate was almost £150,000.In the early 1970s the famous Boddingtons logo was introduced, depicting a barrel and two bees. The bee is the symbol of Manchester, from the time when it was \"the hive of industry\". In January 1982 it purchased the Oldham Brewery for £23 million. Boddingtons remained independent until November 1989, when the last chairman Ewart Boddington sold the Strangeways brewery and the Boddingtons brand to Whitbread for £50.7 million. The sale was an amicable one, with both parties aware that Whitbread capital and distribution could make the Boddingtons brand a national one. The Chief Executive of Whitbread at the time, Peter Jarvis, claimed that: Boddingtons was a declining regional bitter brand that sold at pretty ordinary prices in the North West.
In May 2000, the Whitbread Beer Company was acquired by Interbrew. In 2001, the brand accounted for a staggering 44% share of the off-trade ale market. Since then, commentators such as Roger Protz have accused InBev of neglecting the brand. In 2003, a product relaunch saw extra malt added to the Boddingtons recipe. In September 2004, InBev announced plans to close the Strangeways brewery and move production out of Manchester to Magor in South Wales and Salmesbury, Lancashire, with the loss of 60 jobs, this was despite admitting that the brewery was profitable. A spokesman for the firm argued: \"[The] building was built in the Victorian times and it is an old historic brewery but it was a victim of its age. It is an inflexible brewery - it can\'t bottle or can and customer needs have moved on\". Production at the brewery ended in February 2005. However, the brewing of Boddingtons cask ale was moved to Hydes Brewery in Moss Side, Manchester. In May 2010, it was speculated by The Times that InBev would attempt to sell the Boddingtons brand to another brewer, following their failed attempt to sell the UK rights to Bass ale. The newspaper was damning of what they perceived as InBev\'s mismanagement of the brand: Boddingtons...has declined under AB InBev’s hands. The brand was once a leading part of the old Whitbread Beer Company, but its fortunes have dwindled since the closure in 2005 of the Strangeways brewery in Manchester, where it had been brewed since the late 18th century.

MADE FOR THE UK MARKET THIS GLASS IS IN A GOOD CONDITION, HAS THE GOVERNMENT STAMP THAT WAS REPLACED BY THE EURO \'CE\' IN MARCH 2006. STATES ON THE FRONT BODDINGTONS / MNACHESTER GOLDWITH ITS BARREL AND BEE LOGO. ON THE REVERSE HAS ICONS THAT RELATE TO THE BREWERY AND BEER. COMES IN GOLD.

HAS GOVERNMENT STAMP / WEIGHTS AND MEASUREMENT CROWN - PINT / 562,

MEASURES APPROX 15.5CM IN HEIGHT AND 7CM IN DIAMETER.

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