UK: Carlsberg reveals plans to invest £20 million in Northampton brewery

Brewing giant Carlsberg has revealed plans to invest £20 million in its Northampton brewery, Northampton Chronicle & Echo reported on January, 13.

The brewery cost £15 million to build and in 1975, the Danish architect, Knud Munk, was awarded The Financial Times Industrial Architecture Prize for the design of the building.

The brewery now employs 300 people. It is expected the development of the new bottling hall would create about 60 new jobs.

Over the past couple of years, £40 million has been invested in improvements at the Northampton brewery. The investment was made following the company’s decision to close its brewery in Leeds and to centralise production in Northampton.

Inside the new bottling hall, bottles would arrive before being filled, pasteurised, labelled and packed for delivery. That work is currently carried out at bottling factories in France, Glasgow and Cumbria which are not owned by Carlsberg.

13 January, 2012