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shed. However, the company continued as an important provincial brewer.
improved after the First World War and the company reinstated it's takeover program, notably Fortescue
of Bromsgrove in 1926 and Rowlands Brewery of Evesham in 1948. By this time the company's tied estate
otal of 350 properties.
and Sons Ltd merged with JW Green limited of Luton in 1954 and the name changed to Flowers
ies Ltd. In 1961 the parent company was absorbed by the expanding Whitbread empire, one of the big six
s in the UK. Flowers Brewery finally closed in 1968 and production was transferred to Whitbread's
nham Brewery.
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