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Canadian Breweries History: Labatt Brewing Company

Since its founding in 1847, the Labatt Brewing Company has become an internationally renowned brewer. A proud brewer of 60 quality beers, Labatt employs 3,800 Canadians and operates eight breweries from coast to coast as of 2003. Labatt�s first brewery produced about a thousand bottles of beer a year. Today, Labatt Brewing Company is part of Belgium-based Interbrew S.A., one of the largest brewing groups in the world with more than 180 fine beers available in over 110 countries worldwide.

Labatt has deep roots in Canada stemming from its founder John Kinder Labatt. In 1847, a little more than a decade after arriving in London, Ontario from Ireland, John Labatt purchased London�s Simcoe Street brewery in partnership with Samuel Eccles and by 1853 had become the brewery�s sole proprietor. The brewery was later renamed John Labatt�s Brewery. Prohibition in Canada began in 1915, when public bars were banned in Saskatchewan. A year later, prohibition was instituted in Ontario, affecting all 64 breweries in the province. While some provinces totally banned alcohol manufacture, distribution and sales, many allowed for the production of beer for export to the U.S. Labatt survived by producing full strength beer for export south of the border and by introducing two �temperance ales,� (brews with less than two per cent alcohol) for sale in Ontario. When Prohibition was repealed in Ontario in 1926, just 15 breweries remained and only Labatt retained its original management. This resulted in a strengthened industry position.

With the issuance of 900,000 shares in 1945, Labatt became a publicly traded company, creating new opportunities for raising capital. Labatt�s 1946 purchase of the Copland Brewery in Toronto, its first outside London, spawned the beginning of a brewing empire and marked the company�s first step towards becoming a national brewer.

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