Walker Cain Ltd: Takeover Trail

Walker Cain Ltd: Takeover Trail

By Peter Walker, before the merger with Cains

• 1905: Glover & Son (Liverpool) with 35 pubs.
• 1907: Burton, Bell & Co. Ltd, Wavertree, with 37 houses.
• 1913: Tarbuck's Brewery Ltd of Liverpool with 17 tied houses.

By Robert Cain & Sons Ltd, before the merger with Walkers

• 1902: Thomas Heyes, Phoenix Brewery, Kirkdale, with 3 houses.
• 1906: Joplin's Brewery Ltd, Liverpool, with 16 houses.

After the Walker-Cain merger

• 1921: Robert Blezard, Liver Brewery, Everton, with 48 pubs.
• 1923: Tong & Sons Ltd, Bolton, with about 100 houses.
• 1923: Spragg & Co. Ltd, Wallasey. Acquired by Higson’s Brewery June 1919 with 5 tied houses. Resold to Walker Cain 1923.
• 1926: Airey's Brewery Ltd, Poolstock, with about 40 tied houses.
• 1926: Oldfield Brewery Ltd, Wigan, with 90 pubs.
• 1926: Richard Barker & Co, Huyton, with about 30 tied houses.
• 1929: Ellis, Warde & Co. Ltd, Ormskirk, with 102 houses.
• 1929: Empress Brewery Co. Ltd of Old Trafford, with 236 pubs.
• 1931: George Shaw & Co. Ltd of Leigh, with about 300 houses.
• 1943: Smart & Co, Castle Brewery, Liverpool, with 11 houses.