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In an effort to increase efficiency, Interbrew UK will not only close the Belfast Brewery (as reported) but also Manchester’s famous Boddingtons Brewery, home of the Boddingtons brand, and shift production to other breweries in Lancashire, Wales and Scotland. The brewery will shut in 2005 with the loss of 55 jobs as production switches to Samlesbury, Lancashire, Magor, south Wales, and Glasgow.
Interbrew said it was moving production of non-cask beers, such as Boddingtons Draught nitrokeg and Gold Label Strong Ale, to other sites to cut distribution costs. Non-cask beers make up 90 percent of production at the former Strangeways brewery (named after a nearby prison) in Manchester. Interestingly, Interbrew owns neither the one nor the other brewery..
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