Shropshire-based brewer and retailer Joule's has begun its expansion scheme after securing a £1m investment from The Co-Operative Bank in January this year.
The company has now successfully acquired The Talbot Country Inn, in Ruyton, near Oswestry which will change its name on 4 April and be the first of nine pubs it plans to open in the coming year. It is thought all of these pubs will open within a 40 minute drive from Markey Drayton- where its brewery is based. The brew house at its Red Lion pub in Great Hales Street, will also double in size.
Joule's now owns more than 17 tap houses across Shropshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire