Heavitree Brewery: Annual Meeting: 20 per cent Dividend: A Satisfactory year’s business was recorded at the annual meeting of the Heavitree Brewery Ltd. Yesterday. Mr. G. Hardy Harris (Chairman of the Directors) presided. … … (discussion of accounts) … … During the year the Company had acquired the old established business of Messrs. Pinsent and Sons, Newton Abbot, including the brewery, malt house and forty-four licensed houses, almost wholly freehold. … … The most notable thing in the report was the purchase by the Company of the business of Messrs. Pinsent and Sons, of Newton Abbot. This undertaking had been managed by Mr. Pinsent himself as a private concern for many years and by his father before him and had always been considered one of the most satisfactory and sound little businesses in Newton Abbot and district. The Directors had an opportunity of buying the business, and they did not hesitate to secure it. They had acquired 44 licensed houses all of which were freehold except four. Looking at the ability of the Company to turn out far more beer than was required for the previous number of houses owned, it was obvious that the new purchase was a very valuable acquisition, and the Directors looked forward to producing big results. …
[see similar: Western Times: Tuesday 23rd December 1919]
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GRO0911 Devonport: William Swain Pinsent: 1843 – 1920