BREWING FOOD & BEVERAGE INDUSTRY SUPP...
- 3 BREWERY ROAD
WV1 4JT WOLVERHAMPTON, WEST MIDLANDS
Phone: +44(0)1902 422303
Fax: +44(0)1902 795744
E-mail: Send messagewww.bfbi.org.uk
Short profile:
We provide a full range of services including:
weekly updates of industry news; free entry within the Association's Annual Directory; management and financial help at a number of overseas exhibitions; discounted stand space at the triannual International Brewing Convention; free of charge Business Advisory Helpline; participation in social and professional activities, enabling Members to maintain direct contact with decision makers within the industry.
representation via trade committees and direct lobbying at UK, European and International level
Indeed, no firm selling to the brewing, food & beverage industry can afford to remain outside BFBi - if only for the value manufacturers place on it as being their most effective contact with suppliers and the value suppliers place on it as being their most effective contact with the industry.
Detailed description:
The Association has a long and lively tradition of active campaigning on behalf of its Members and the Industry. Below is a brief look at how the BFBi, previously the Allied Brewery Traders’ Association (ABTA) was formed.
1906: The Liberal Party was returned to Parliament with an overwhelming majority and made no secret of its intention to introduce legislation to control the Brewing & Licenced Trades.
1907: On 15th February a preliminary meeting of the Industrial Allies was held at Cannon Street Hotel, London. The leaders were Montague Baird, a London and Glasgow Maltster; J Topham Richardson, a leader in the hop industry and Richard Garton, Head of a leading brewing sugar business. A provisional committee was formed and the involved trades circularised. Support was rapidly forthcoming and prominent engineers, including S Briggs JP, and heads of other branches of the industry gave additional support to the three early leaders.
1908: By the end of the year Membership had increased to 1, 700 firms. However, on 3rd March 1908 the Licensing Bill was introduced in the House of Commons. Among a gamut of sweeping changes aimed at the Brewing & Licenced Trades, its main proposal was that, at the end of 14 years, the ownership of all licenced premises should revert to the State. Also, at the end of this term, local polls would give electors the option of voting for complete prohibition or a reduced number of licences.
ABTA distributed millions of leaflets, posters and pamphlets throughout the country, culminating in a demonstration on 29th September in Hyde Park attended by 250, 000 people, including 120, 000 members of the Brewing & Allied Trades. Twenty speakers, heralded by bugles simultaneously, addressed the orderly crowd from 20 platforms, putting forward a resolution rejecting the Bill.
Such was the effect of this demonstration that the Bill received its coup de grace in the House of Lords on 27th November 1908.
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