{"id":32064,"date":"2026-07-17T07:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=32064"},"modified":"2026-07-17T07:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T07:42:21","slug":"brewdog-owner-tells-watt-that-business-is-not-for-sale-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=32064","title":{"rendered":"BrewDog owner tells Watt that business is &#8216;not for sale&#8217; \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\/2026\/06\/Inverurie-BrewDog-1.png\" alt=\"Inverurie BrewDog\" class=\"wp-image-196987 lazyload\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4925041643531372;width:840px;height:auto\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Inverurie-BrewDog-1.png\" alt=\"Inverurie BrewDog\" class=\"wp-image-196987 lazyload\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4925041643531372;width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Inverurie-BrewDog-1.png 794w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Inverurie-BrewDog-1-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Inverurie-BrewDog-1-768x515.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Inverurie-BrewDog-1-600x402.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>BrewDog Inverurie was reopened as a \u2018community\u2019 pub<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">BrewDog co-founder James Watt\u2019s bid to buy back the business looks to have hit the buffers as the owner says it is not for sale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Irwin Simon, chief executive of US company Tilray Brands, which bought the brewer and some pubs in March, said BrewDog would remain part of the group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">His comments to <em>CityAM<\/em> come after Mr Watt announced that he had\u00a0formally submitted an offer\u00a0through his new venture, Second Best.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Watt set up BrewDog in Ellon, Aberdeenshire with school friend Martin Dickie in 2007, and it grew into a \u00a31 billion-plus multinational before collapsing into adminisration early this year and being sold to Tilray for just \u00a333 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The company has since invested \u00a350m into the business and launched a range of US craft beers into its pubs, some of which have reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Simon told\u00a0<em>City AM<\/em>\u00a0that BrewDog is \u201cnot for sale\u201d and remains \u201can integral part of Tilray\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Watt said that if his offer failed he would pursue Second Best as a standalone business. He launched Second Best with an invitation to thousands of BrewDog\u2019s former \u201cpunk\u201d shareholders to join him. They were left empty-handed in the company\u2019s failure.<\/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>#BrewDog #owner #tells #Watt #business #sale #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BrewDog Inverurie was reopened&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[3130,266,265,15318,10645,3664,582,1284,14873,10646],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32064"}],"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=32064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}