We are proud to have Fuller’s as a corporate member of the Trust. Today Fuller, Smith & Turner PLC is a premium pubs and hotels business but its roots trace back to the late 1600s. Thomas Mawson laid the foundations for the brewing enterprise by buying The George public house in Chiswick and two adjoining cottages for £70. Later he also bought the brewhouse in Bedford House on Chiswick Mall.
The first record of the Griffin Brewery in Chiswick dates from 1816 when the owners acquired the Griffin name and emblem from failed brewery Meux & Reid in the City of London.
The business expanded and thrived until money problems forced the owners, Douglas and Henry Thompson and Philip Wood, to seek a business partner. John Fuller was a wealthy country gentleman and invested in the business on behalf of his son, John Bird Fuller.
In 1845 John Bird Fuller was joined by Henry Smith from the Romford Brewery of Ind & Smith and his brother-in-law, head brewer John Turner, and partnership papers between Fuller, Smith and Turner were officially signed.
Fuller’s continued to run a successful brewing business in Chiswick and develop its pub estate. Milestones included the purchase of 44 outlets from Ind Coope, the pub division of Allied Breweries, in 1990 and the acquisition of Gales Brewery in Hampshire in 2005, along with 111 pubs. Its relationship with brewing ended in 2019 when it sold The Fuller’s Beer Company, but the Griffin brewery continues to brew Fuller’s beers. Today Fuller’s reputation is for its estate of over 300 premium pubs and hotels predominantly across the south of England.
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