Sleeman closing Dartmouth brewery after failing to find buyer
Posted Nov 28, 2013 04:28:22 PM.
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Sleeman Breweries has closed its Dartmouth brewery after failing to find an interested buyer.
“We have been working for months on trying to maintain as many jobs as possible by selling the facility to a new brewery owner,” says Pierre Ferland, National Vice President, Operations, Sleeman Breweries Ltd. “We want to thank our employees for their years of service to Sleeman Breweries and the patience and dedication they have shown as we tried to find a buyer. We’re disappointed we couldn’t find another owner and keep these jobs in Dartmouth.”
Sleeman’s parent company announced earlier this year that it was selling the facility, which it said made only a small percentage of the beer brand.
Sleeman says it tried to make the opportunity to purchase the facility as attractive as possible. Some of the measures the company took included a reduction in the workforce to accommodate a smaller operator, and offering to have over 350,000 cases of Sleeman products produced annually in the facility until the new brewer had its own product established.
“This facility was too big for the small operators and too small for the large ones,” said Ferlan.
The Guelph, Ont.,-based company said the facility was being shuttered at the end of business Thursday, putting its remaining 15 employees out of work.
