{"id":10181,"date":"2026-07-02T06:14:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T06:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=10181"},"modified":"2026-07-02T06:14:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T06:14:56","slug":"brewdog-ceo-departs-months-after-takeover-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=10181","title":{"rendered":"BrewDog CEO departs months after takeover \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/James-Taylor.png\" alt=\"James Taylor\" class=\"wp-image-176739 lazyload\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4337529336462556;width:839px;height:auto\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"714\" height=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/James-Taylor.png\" alt=\"James Taylor\" class=\"wp-image-176739 lazyload\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4337529336462556;width:839px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/James-Taylor.png 714w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/James-Taylor-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/James-Taylor-600x418.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Departed: James Taylor<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">BrewDog chief excecutive James Taylor has stepped down just three months after the company collapsed and was bought by the US medical cannabis and drinks firm Tilray Brands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Taylor, whose departure was confirmed in a Companies House filing, took over at the Aberdeenshire-based brewing and pubs company in March last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">He set about turning around the business amid continuing losses it had run up during an over-ambitious expansion strategy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">He is the third CEO to step down at BrewDog in just over two years after co-founder James Watt and his successor James Arrow left within a year of each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The company posted a \u00a336.6m loss in the year to the end of December 2024, while it was reported last year that nearly 2,000 pubs across Britain stopped selling its beer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">US company Tilray acquired BrewDog in a pre-pack administration deal for \u00a333 million, a huge fall from its \u00a31 billion-plus valuation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The business left \u00a320m in unpaid bills to nearly 500 firms when it folded, and owed\u00a0\u00a3553.8m at the point of its sale to Tilray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Tilray has already pumped around \u00a350m into the business to re-establish supply chains and reopen some pubs. CEO Irwin Simon said earlier this week that Tilray was \u201creally happy\u201d it acquired a \u201cphenomenal brand\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It said it is not seeking to replace Mr Taylor as it restructures the business. A spokesman said: \u201cBrewDog now sits under Tilray International  and within this structure isn\u2019t a requirement for a full-time chief executive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cJames successfully led BrewDog through its ownership transition. We thank him for his contributions and wish him every success in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">BrewDog chief commercial officer Lauren Carrol oversees day-to-day operations and reports to Rajnish Ohri, the president of Tilray\u2019s operations business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, Tilray\u00a0introduced nine of its US beer brands\u00a0to the UK through BrewDog\u2019s bars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, former BrewDog co-founder James Watt is returning to the beer sector with a new venture, Second Best. He\u00a0plans to offer up to 19.3% of the business\u00a0to former punk investors in BrewDog.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.5) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#BrewDog #CEO #departs #months #takeover #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Departed: James Taylor BrewDog chief excecutive James Taylor has stepped down just three months after the company collapsed and was bought by the US medical cannabis and drinks firm Tilray&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[3330,283,369,282,1904,12039,12040,94,1986,3332],"class_list":["post-10181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-stories","tag-brewdog","tag-business","tag-ceo","tag-daily","tag-departs","tag-james-taylor","tag-lauren-carrol","tag-months","tag-takeover","tag-tilray-brands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}