{"id":32040,"date":"2026-07-15T21:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=32040"},"modified":"2026-07-15T21:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:08:23","slug":"watt-in-renewed-attempt-to-buy-back-brewdog-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=32040","title":{"rendered":"Watt in renewed attempt to buy back BrewDog \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BrewDog-Lothian-Road.png\" alt=\"BrewDog Lothian Road\" class=\"wp-image-158552 lazyload\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.6439361506941472;width:840px;height:auto\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"483\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BrewDog-Lothian-Road.png\" alt=\"BrewDog Lothian Road\" class=\"wp-image-158552 lazyload\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.6439361506941472;width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BrewDog-Lothian-Road.png 794w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BrewDog-Lothian-Road-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BrewDog-Lothian-Road-768x467.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BrewDog-Lothian-Road-600x365.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>BrewDog was sold in March in a cut-price deal (pic: DB Media Services)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">James Watt is bidding to buy back parts of the BrewDog empire just months after a US company bought it out of administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Tilray Brands, the Nasdaq-listed American consumer goods group, acquired key assets of the business for a cut-price \u00a333 million and has invested \u00a350m, including reopening some pubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Rival bidders included Mr Watt, who co-founded BrewDog in 2007 and has now launched a further attempt to buy the Ellon Brewery in Aberdeenshire and some other assets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">He is expected to be restoring an ownership stake\u00a0to former \u201cequity punk\u201d retail investors, whose shares in BrewDog became worthless\u00a0when it collapsed n in March. He has enlisted many of them to his new business, Second Best which would become part of the new BrewDog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In a message to about 42,000 supporters, Mr Watt said that if his offer to Tilray is successful \u201ceveryone who has signed up will own the same stake in BrewDog they once held. For free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Should the bid for BrewDog fail, Watt will pursue Second Best as a standalone business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Tilray acquired the intellectual property, the Ellon brewery and 11 pubs. There were about about 430 job losses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Its investment has included introducing a number of its US craft beers to BrewDog customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Tilray said: \u201cWe do not comment on speculation. We\u2019re very happy and excited about BrewDog\u2019s business worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bulletin:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Sign up for our breakfast email of the day\u2019s breaking news<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.6) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Watt #renewed #attempt #buy #BrewDog #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BrewDog was sold in March in a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[14204,3130,266,152,265,10645,7844,17869,14873,10646],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}