Interview with Brian Hickman, Managing Director of Thwaites Brewery in Lancashire, he shares the secrets behind 200 years of business success.

Welcome to the very first Business Ears Podcast show.

I’m Jon Coulter, producer and host of the show and I tell you a little bit about who I am and why I created Business Ears at the start of the podcast.

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Our first show profiles one of the North West’s oldest and most successful family owned companies Thwaites Brewery. With an HQ in Blackburn, Lancashire and an estate of over 430 pubs stretching across the entire North of England, 2007 marks a major landmark that sees the company celebrate its ‘bicentenary’.

In a 15 minute interview, Thwaites Managing Director Brian Hickman shares with us the secrets of how the business has developed into the major brewing power that it is today.

For further information about Thwaites, in particular the Brewery ‘Family Open Day’ on Saturday 11th August at the HQ in Blackburn visit www.thwaites.co.uk or telephone 01254 686868.

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