A premium beer deeply associated with Tasmania will move operations for its mainland sales off the island to stem rising costs.
160-year-old Boag's Brewery will shift production of beer sold on the mainland from Tasmanian operations amid rising costs and reduced sales.Parent company Lion Australia says 13 roles will be made redundant, with affected staff being offered jobs at other Lion-owned breweries.
"With the ongoing decline of the beer market, the cost challenges that we're all facing and the fact we bring most of our raw materials to Tasmania and send the finished goods back, it was just a heavy cost burden that we couldn't carry anymore."As a result, 13 redundancies have been announced as the brewery drops from two shifts to one."It's a sad day. People love this brewery.
"James Boag and his brewers combined the purest Tasmanian water and natural ingredients with their fierce pride and passion, to forge a reputation for making extraordinary beers, that could only be made in Tasmania," it reads. "It has been a tough time for large and small brewers, with overall beer sales and production volumes in decline due to changing consumer preferences, cost-of-living pressures and continual increases in federal government excise," he said.
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