Understanding Our Business
As the country's leading pub company and brewer, we welcome our customers through our doors and brew our iconic range of well-loved crafted beers every day.
Who we are and what we do
We are the country’s leading pub company and brewer, running over 2,500 pubs, restaurants and hotels in towns, villages and city-centre high streets across England, Scotland and Wales. We employ more than 38,000 talented team members and have around 1,000 pub partners right across the UK.
It’s our rich heritage of more than 200 years that has taught us how to brew award-winning beer and operate pubs from our base in Bury St. Edmunds ever since the company was founded, but it is our purpose of pouring happiness into lives that makes us the company we are today.
This ethos is central to all that we do here at Greene King, from the products we offer and the beers that we brew, to the way we develop and support our people, how we put our customers at the heart of all we do and how we deliver against our targets.
Our Businesses
Our business operates in three key business areas - Managed Pubs, Pub Partners and Brewing & Brands.
Managed Pubs
Our Managed Pubs bring together our best-known pub and restaurant brands nationwide, including Greene King pubs, Hungry Horse, Chef & Brewer, Farmhouse Inns and Flaming Grill. We offer great service, quality and value for a wide range of eating and drinking occasions. Ventures includes Hickory’s, Premium (Crafted Pubs & Metropolitan Pub Company) and Hotels, which operate independently of Greene King’s managed pub brands.
Pub Partners
Pub Partners runs our tenanted and leased pubs business and Hive and Nest franchise pubs. We believe we’ve become one of the UK’s most successful and respected tenanted and leased pub companies because of our two key principles – support and flexibility for all our licensees.
Find out more about our range of short-term and long-term options and our wide range of specialist support services to help licensees run successful pubs.
Brewing and Brands
We operate two breweries. Westgate Brewery is in our hometown of Bury St. Edmunds and Belhaven Brewery, in Dunbar, which was formed in 1719 and is Scotland’s oldest working brewery and the home of Belhaven Best.
We are one of the leading cask brewers in the UK and our industry-leading portfolio includes Greene King IPA, Abbot Ale, Ice Breaker and Belhaven Best and our premium beers, Level Head and Hazy Day, brewed for the modern-day drinker. Through constant innovation, we’ve taken the traditional art of brewing to new heights, creating what we believe is the finest range of cask and craft ales on the market.