16-Sep-2013 By John Harrington
Cains, the Liverpool brewer, has submitted its plans to develop its brewery into a major tourism, retail and leisure destination.
09-Dec-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Liverpool brewery Cains is taking its range of beers and lagers across the pond to America after linking up with Win-It-Too of Boston.
S&NPE pulls Cains' beers
15-Dec-2008 By James Wilmore
Scottish & Newcastle Pub Enterprises (S&NPE) has stopped supplying Cains' beers to its licensees - saying it is a "commercial decision". It...
08-Oct-2008 By The PMA Team
A copy of administrator PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) information memorandum on Cains Beer Company reveals some compelling statistics on why the company failed at the start of August, says The PMA Team.
Back in business
29-Sep-2008 By Hamish Champ
Tucked away on page 17 of Cains Beer Company's last annual report and accounts appears what turned out to be a prescient warning from Mazars,...
Hamish Champ: An issue of trust
22-Sep-2008 By Hamish Champ
A number of people have asked me with varying degrees of incredulity quite how it is that the Dusanj brothers - Sudarghara and Ajmail - can buy back...
Cains and able to buy back the business?
01-Sep-2008 By Hamish Champ
In what has been a quiet and singularly damp squib of a summer the Cains affair is at least building up a head of steam, judging by developments last...
Cains licensees reveal distress of losing jobs
29-Aug-2008 By James Wilmore
Distraught ex-Cains licensees have told of their misery at losing their jobs and homes following the high-profile collapse of the company.Twenty-four...
Dusanj brothers table bid for Cains Beer Company
27-Aug-2008 By Hamish Champ
Brothers Sudarghara and Ajmail Dusanj have lodged a bid with the administrators of the collapsed Cains Beer Company to buy back the business,...
22-Aug-2008 By Tony Halstead
Several licensees at Cains pubs have told of their heartbreak as they face losing their jobs following the company administrator's decision to close...
22-Aug-2008 By Mark Stretton, M&C Report
Bids for Cains Beer Company are due to be lodged with administrators Pricewaterhouse Coopers today.
Administrators start closing Cains pubs
21-Aug-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
Administrators have started to shut pubs in the Cains estate that have been making a loss. The Liverpool brewery and pub company went into...
21-Aug-2008 By Tony Halstead
Cains administrators are closing down a number of pubs it considers to be unviable. Licensees in Punch-owned sites, leased to Cains, have been told...
15-Aug-2008 By Roger Protz
Cains' demise has eclipsed the Great British Beer Festival in the gloomy media.
Dusanj: "Cains was a fantastic but hard experience
08-Aug-2008 By Matt Eley Matt
One of the brothers behind Cains has said he does not know what the future holds after the Liverpool brewer and pub company went into...
07-Aug-2008 By The PMA Team
The Dusanj brothers are fighting hard, but its bank seems unsure about giving support, says The PMA Team
Cains bankers say 'no' to rescue deal
01-Aug-2008 By Hamish Champ
Cains Beer Company faces being wound up by the courts in a fortnight's time after failing to secure backing from its bank to pay off an outstanding...
Cains faces anxious wait over future
29-Jul-2008 By James Wilmore
Liverpool-based brewer Cains faces an agonising wait over the next 48 hours to see if its bank will help secure its future. The company, which...
23-May-2008 By Ewan Turney
Liverpool-based brewer and operator Cains has reported an "encouraging" start to summer at its Annual General Meeting
Cains names new finance chief
13-May-2008
Liverpool brewer Cains Beer Company has appointed a finance director in the form of ex-Stanley Casinos finance head Paul Morgan. Morgan joins Cains...
The Best of British culture
20-Mar-2008
Cains is backing Liverpool's tenure as European Capital of Culture in 2008. Tony Halstead looks into what is a major coup for the beer company This...
Trading on track, claims Cains Beer Company
31-Jan-2008 By Hamish Champ
Cains, the 100-pub strong Liverpool-based pubco and brewer, says it had made progress throughout its estate despite the impact of the smoking ban,...
No plans to tenant out Honeycombe pubs, says Cains
09-Sep-2007 By Hamish Champ
Liverpool brewer Cains has rejected claims it is to transfer over to tenanted operations the 100-plus managed Honeycombe Leisure pubs it acquired via...
Business Opinion
14-Jun-2007 By with The PMA Team
Cains pioneers new business model The story of the rise of Cains began a new chapter last week when the reverse takeover of managed operator...
29-May-2007
CAMRA Members' Investment Club has purchased a share in Honeycombe, soon to be renamed the Cains Beer Company.
Cains goes public with Honeycombe Leisure takeover
14-May-2007 By Hamish Champ
The management of Liverpool brewer Robert Cain has undertaken a reverse takeover of troubled pub group Honeycombe Leisure.Under the deal, Honeycombe...
From Liverpool with love
15-Sep-2006 By Hamish Champ
Timing, as they say, is everything. A few years ago brothers Sudaghara and Ajmail Dusanj turned up at Ludgate House on London's South Bank to pitch...
20-Jul-2006 By Andrew Pring
There's two guys worked down the chip shop who swear they're ale men
22-May-2006
Liverpool brewer Cains has gone back to the brewery's Irish roots by launching a 'full-flavoured creamy stout' to challenge the likes of Guinness and...
Sudarghara Dusanj Cains
28-Jul-2005
The Robert Cain brewery is back with the name it had in the 19th-century, but the magnificent Victorian building in Liverpool is on its seventh set...
New cask version of Cains' premium lager now available
23-Feb-2005
Cains brewery has launched a new cask version of its premium lager at the Liverpool CAMRA festival.The cask version has been in development for the...
Willing and able
26-Jan-2005
Turning Cains around is no short-term project for its dynamic directors - they are in it for the long haul, as they explain to Andrew...
Deadline passes for SIA licences
13-Jan-2005
Licensees in Leicestershire are being warned to make sure their doorstaff are registered or risk prosecution. The deadline for door supervisors to...
New licensing courses to help councils
14-Oct-2004
Local authority licensing administrators and officers are being offered the chance to develop a better understanding of the Licensing Act 2003...
Dane takes over helm at Cains
09-Jul-2001
The Danish owner of Liverpool brewer Cains has brought in a new boss to replace outgoing managing director Steve Holt .Danish Brewery Group, which...
