{"id":804281,"date":"2026-10-16T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/804281\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T08:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:30:11","slug":"marlow-brewery-founders-hand-over-control-to-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/804281\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlow brewery founders hand over control to staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The founders of a brewery have handed over control of the business to employees in an attempt to secure its future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Rebellion Beer Company, in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, which supplies chef Tom Kerridge&#8217;s restaurants, has transferred the books to an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT), which means the brewery will be managed by its staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Founders Tim Coombes and Mark Gloyens made the decision amid growing uncertainty in the brewing industry, following recent closures and threats of closure elsewhere in the sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gloyens said he was &#8220;really pleased&#8221; that the future of the business would be &#8220;safe in Marlow for years to come&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The founders of a brewery have handed over control of the business to employees in an attempt to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-804281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}