Canadian Breweries Limited

Overview

• Industrybrewing industry¹
• HeadquartersToronto¹

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Canadian Breweries Limited (CBL), originally the Brewing Corporation of Ontario, was an Ontario-based holding company in the brewing industry. The company was founded in 1930 by a merger of two breweries, Brading of Ottawa and Kuntz of Kitchener-Waterloo. Under the direction of its top executive, E. P. Taylor, the company bought or merged many of the smaller competitors existing after the repeal of prohibition. The new company closed many plants, reduced the number of beer brands and built new, larger plants to produce enough beer for a much larger geographic area. By the 1950s, the company had reduced the number of beer brands from approximately one hundred to six. Canadian Breweries became part of a large conglomerate of manufacturing and consumer businesses controlled by the Argus Corporation in 1945.²

The story

Founded by E. P. Taylor in 1937.¹

Leadership

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• FounderE. P. Taylor¹

Products and brands

From Wikipedia’s article on Canadian Breweries, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.⁴

Acquisitions

1. Succeeded Brewing Corporation of Canada¹

Timeline

1. 1937Founded Founded¹

Links

• WikipediaCanadian Breweries
• WikidataQ5029785