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Key personnel: Stephen Gould, MD; Richard Everard, chairman
Leicestershire-based Everards was awarded CAMRA’s Bill Squires award in April — the first time in a decade it’s been handed out — for its support of pubs and microbrewers. The award was in recognition of the company’s trailblazing Project William scheme — now up to 29 sites — where Everards partners smaller brewers to breathe new life into previously unsustainable pubs. A champion for the trade, boss Stephen Gould has also secured a new brewery and retail site, likely to open within three years.