{"id":784765,"date":"2026-07-06T22:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/784765\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T22:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:31:16","slug":"diageo-enters-agreement-to-sell-amherstburg-crown-royal-bottling-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/784765\/","title":{"rendered":"Diageo enters agreement to sell Amherstburg Crown Royal bottling plant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The makers of Crown Royal whisky have entered into an agreement to sell their former bottling facility in Amherstburg, Ont., Diageo has confirmed to CBC.<\/p>\n

“We can confirm that a purchase sale agreement for the Amherstburg facility has been signed,” a spokesperson said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n

“The process remains confidential, and we are not currently in a position to share details regarding the purchaser. We will share additional information when appropriate.”<\/p>\n

The company listed the property for sale in December 2025.<\/p>\n

The facility closed its doors on Feb. 25.<\/p>\n

Amherstburg Mayor Michael Prue told CBC that town council will only get involved in the future of the property if it requires a zoning amendment or an amendment to the official plan.<\/p>\n

It is currently zoned for industrial use.<\/p>\n

There has been quite a bit of interest in the property, Prue said.<\/p>\n

Three or four businesses in the alcohol industry inquired about it last year, he said, and one made two offers that were both turned down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now that an agreement has been signed, both the buyer and the seller will do their due diligence over the next month or so, he said.<\/p>\n

The buyer will be revealed once the sale is finalized.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m really hopeful that something will come of this, and we can put those 165 people who lost their job back to work,\u201d Prue said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re all happy that this is at least going this step forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-784765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}