Tinkoff sells brewing business
Gives a new meaning to the bouncer’s question: "Is that gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" At St Petersburg’s Tinkoff brewpub they ask you for your coat - and for that piece of metal that some of their more discerning punters were carrying under their jackets. Once you have made it past the bouncers, the sharp-eyed security guys and the metal detector, you have entered a first-class brewpub in that cosmopolitan style that’s all the rage with Russia’s "businessmeni". Oleg Tinkov, the man behind the brewpub restaurant business has now sold his breweries to InBev for EUR 167 million. The Tinkoff restaurant business is not a part of the deal and Oleg Tinkov will retain it for himself. ...