Global brands choosing Wales as a home
With over a billion pints brewed each year at its Newport site, Magor Brewery is Budweiser Brewing Group’s largest brewery in the UK, producing three of the biggest beer brands; Corona, Stella Artois and Budweiser. The brewery was set up in 1979 and employs over 500 people in high quality jobs.
World leading Budweiser Brewing group, part of AB InBev, has invested millions into Magor Brewery with people and sustainability at the core of its investment planning.
Recent cash injections include a £72 million pounds investment, creating numerous employment and apprenticeship opportunities, key improvements to production systems as well as the installation of innovative energy solutions to help significantly reduce their carbon footprint.
Brewery Manager Lloyd Manship says, “One of the main benefits of Magor Brewery being located where it is that we are on the main M4 corridor so the infrastructure and inter-connection links are great and provides very easy access to the rest of the UK market.”
Creating a sustainable future
The climate-conscious brewery has successfully rid itself of plastic packaging this year and announced that it uses 100% UK barley in its brewing, simultaneously reducing carbon emissions and supporting local agriculture and Wales’s race to net zero.
Feeding further into Wales’s strong climate framework, Budweiser Brewing is committed to delivering beer from Magor Brewery with 100% renewable energy and has invested in wind power technologies by installing one of the UK’s largest onshore wind turbines. Pioneering for a more sustainable future across the industry, the brewer has more recently announced plans to build the first large-scale hydrogen generation system to fuel production and cut carbon emissions across all its operations.
Employing a highly skilled workforce
Also key to the success and reputation of the Magor Brewery is its people. With a highly skilled and diverse workforce of over 500 employees, Budweiser Brewing recognises the hardworking commitment and passion of the Welsh workforce at Magor and continues to invest in the development of its people which plays a vital part in both the future of the business and its community.
Lloyd Manship adds, “We have people working in the brewery who have been here for over 40 years and, at the other end of the age scale, we invest heavily in our apprenticeship scheme. For me that is absolutely critical especially having progressed as an apprentice through the business myself. I have seen first-hand the importance of investing in people.”
