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Greene King is the country’s leading pub company and brewer with 2,600 pubs, restaurants and hotels across England, Wales and Scotland.

Bury Saint Edmunds, England
Joined August 2011
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@greeneking
Greene King
3 years
@weetabix @HeinzUK Does this class as a ‘substantial meal’?
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Greene King
2 years
@RSPBCymru Thank you for bringing this to our attention @RSPBCymru , we are distressed to see this and have spoken with your team. We have asked a relevant specialist company to visit the pub to rectify this ASAP.
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Greene King
6 years
We are delighted to have partnered with The Royal British Legion to support its #ThankYou100 campaign. We are brewing a special edition beer, Flanders Fields, and are pledging to donate 20p from every pint sold to @poppylegion .
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Greene King
4 years
We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to make sure that when we reopen our pubs, we make them as safe as possible, whilst also following the latest government guidelines. Check out how our pubs will look by watching this short video #greenekingpubsafe
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Greene King
6 years
YAY! We did it! We have raised over £4million for our charity partner @macmillancancer ! Thank you to all our amazing fundraising team members and incredibly generous customers for helping us get there!
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Greene King
4 years
We've raised an incredible £7million for @macmillancancer , thanks to our passionate team members and generous customers. The money raised will fund Macmillan healthcare professionals, including iconic nurses. For more info
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3 years
@petersturdgess Hi Peter, thank you for sharing this with us. We're politically neutral and this appears to be the action of an individual pub. We'd be grateful if you could send us a private message to say which pub this picture was taken at? Best wishes, Chris
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Greene King
7 years
Two of our most popular beers are going #glutenfree ! Versions of Greene King IPA & Old Speckled Hen available Feb
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Greene King
10 months
A momentous day as @GBBF returns! Great to speak with @RishiSunak at our Abbot Ale stand, as we welcome the Government’s vote of confidence in pubs with a new and more progressive duty system. Also thrilled Abbot Ale awarded silver Champion Beer of Britain prize! @10DowningStreet
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Greene King
3 years
We're really pleased to donate 110 laptops to local schools to help children with homeschooling during lockdown #digitaldivide @maroitoje @UnitySchoolsP
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Greene King
2 years
Congratulations to our MD Andy Wilson who is awarded an MBE in New Year’s Honours List for services to Business & Charity during Covid-19! Andy was instrumental in helping us raise £2m for @MacmillanCancer in 2021, including running the London Marathon.
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Greene King
4 years
Customer and team safety is our number one priority, so as we look ahead to welcoming our customers back to our pubs, we’ve launched ‘Pub Safe’. We’re pledging five commitments, designed to look after team members and ensure customers can socialise safely.
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Greene King
3 years
We are thrilled to have won three awards at tonight’s @morningad Publican Awards – best leased and tenanted pub company, best community pub operator and business leader of the year for our CEO Nick Mackenzie. We can't wait to get our pubs back open so we can celebrate together🍻
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Voted for by our finalists and judges, for launching a range of amazing crisis initiatives and setting the standards for other leaders to follow, our Business Leader of the Year award sponsored by @Popall goes to... Nick MacKenzie from @greeneking ! #PublicanAwards
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Greene King
4 years
We can’t wait to welcome our customers back into our pubs and bring our communities together again. Pubs need your support now more than ever, so why not visit your local and catch up with friends and family over a bite to eat and a drink @LongLiveLocals #longlivethelocal #pubs
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Greene King
4 years
Many of our team members started furlough today and we will miss them. We love this Out Of Office poem from Tash and Steph in marketing 💚 #WeCare #CustomerFirst #pubs #team
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Greene King
4 years
We're pleased to announce we're reducing the rents for our tied tenants by 90% from 11 June until they can legally reopen. Read the full story on our website:
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Greene King
6 years
CHRISTMAS COMPETITION! We are giving you the chance to win a case of 12 great Greene King beers! Just retweet by midnight on Boxing Day to enter. A winner will be chosen at random on Wednesday 27 December. 18+ only #beerforthenewyear
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Greene King
8 years
As a tribute to Her Majesty we have brewed a limited edition golden ale, Purple Reign #HappyBirthdayYourMajesty
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Greene King
3 years
Our CEO Nick Mackenzie helped to serve 300+ meals at the @apavementaway Cook & Dine lunch today hosted by @tomaikens - raising awareness of the charity's work to support people facing homelessness, prison leavers and veterans into careers within hospitality #greenekingforgood
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Greene King
5 years
@ItsTimeScot We are a pub company and do not get involved with politics. Whilst pubs are a great place for debate of any kind it is not the role of the pub to appear to influence political debate and therefore we do not permit advertising of this nature in our pubs.
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Greene King
2 years
For the first time our teams have raised £2m in a year for @macmillancancer , making us the charity's top fundraising corporate partner in 2021! We're so proud of our teams for their inspiring work, showing what a key role pubs in the UK play supporting charities & communities 💚
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Greene King
3 years
It’s St Edmunds day today and we have the St Edmunds flag flying proudly from the top of our brewery! #StEdmundsDay #BuryStEdmunds
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Greene King
3 years
A shout out to all our amazing team members this #EmployeeAppreciationDay . We can’t wait to have you back when our pubs reopen 💚 #pubs #brewing #hospitality #team
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Greene King
3 years
Congratulations to @UKHospKate on being made an OBE in the New Year's Honours list. It's hugely deserved recognition after a year of tirelessly standing up for pubs and all hospitality businesses in this most difficult of years and making sure their voices are heard.
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Greene King
5 years
We’re thrilled to have won the Fundraising Excellence Award at @MacmillanCancer ’s annual corporate partnership awards last night. We have now raised an incredible £6.6m thanks to the amazing passion and efforts of our team members and the support of our customers. Thank you
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Greene King
6 years
A shout out to all women on #internationalwomensday , especially to Nicola Strawbridge, an inspirational manager of ours, who led her team to raise £25k for @macmillancancer while going through her cancer treatment. #hero #IWD2018
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Greene King
3 years
Our iconic London pubs rang last orders yesterday. From all our teams in the capital we wish you a Merry Christmas & bring on 2021 when we will be back and stronger than ever. It's bye for now but we’re looking forward to opening those doors and pulling you a well-deserved pint.
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Greene King
4 years
The Greene King team took on the 2.6 Challenge at the weekend, raising a massive £5,526 so far for our charity partners @macmillancancer #twopointsixchallenge
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Greene King
6 years
Good luck to two of our directors who are swapping their business suits for running gear this Sunday as they take on the @LondonMarathon in aid of @MacmillanCancer . We wish them all the best! If you’d like to sponsor either of them follow this link -
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Greene King
8 years
To celebrate becoming official ale partner of @AVFCOfficial we taught some players how to pour the perfect pint.
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Greene King
2 years
We’re deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and we are now reflecting on her years of service. Our thoughts go out to the Royal Family and we join the nation in mourning her loss
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Greene King
8 years
We’re also thrilled to announce we have extended our partnership with @macmillancancer for a further 3 years (2/2)
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Greene King
4 years
We’re sad to close our pubs in England but hopefully not for long. Right now it’s important everyone plays their part to keep people safe – our teams have been amazing this week closing pubs down safely. We hope to see you all soon for a freshly-poured drink and Christmas cheer🍻
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Greene King
3 years
Merry Christmas everyone - it’s a year that has been beyond difficult and it still feels strange that so many of our pubs can’t open today. We hope you can all spend Christmas safely with loved ones, either in person or virtually, and we look forward to a happier 2021🍻
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Greene King
4 years
Thank you NHS and key workers from everyone at Greene King #ClapForOurCarers
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Greene King
4 years
It’s #NationalBurgerDay and today we’ve launched the Greene Warrior burger. We’re donating £1 from every burger sold to our national charity partner @macmillancancer ahead of our pubs kicking off a month of fundraising for Macmillan in September. More info
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Greene King
6 years
We are excited to be announced as official brewery partner of @ChefTomKerridge ’s food, drink & music @Pubinthepark_ festivals for 2018. There are four festivals through the summer and we can’t wait!
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Greene King
8 years
We thanked team members for raising £2m for @Macmillancancer as we launched our charity partnership for 3 more years
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Greene King
5 years
We walked, we ran, we climbed mountains and baked cakes – and our team members have raised an incredible £680,000 in just one month with our annual ‘ @macmillancancer May’ fundraising push.
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Greene King
4 years
So proud to win Best Sustainable Pub Company at this year’s #PublicanAwards
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Greene King
4 years
Millions of people would like to go to the pub more but don’t have anyone to go with, according to new research. That’s why we've launched ‘No One Alone’, a new initiative to reduce loneliness in our local communities. Find out more about the campaign here
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Greene King
4 years
Exciting news! We’re reopening 29 of our Metropolitan pubs in London for takeaway & delivery from 22 May. Customers in the capital will be able to order their gastro pub favourites, including beer battered haddock & roast chicken on Sunday #pubs #pubfood
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Greene King
8 years
We kicked off a week of fundraising for @Macmillancancer today, with a coffee morning at our head office and brewery
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Greene King
5 years
Congratulations to our CEO, Rooney Anand, who won the #publicanawards Outstanding Industry Contribution Award.
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Greene King
5 years
Last year we brewed Flanders Fields, a special edition beer marking the centennial anniversary of the end of the First World War. With donations from every pint sold we are proud to announce we raised over £32,000 for The Royal British Legion ( @poppylegion )
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Greene King
4 years
At the moment we have so many people to be thankful for and we were so proud to see this video created by some of our team members. Thank you from Greene King to everyone who is going above and beyond right now to help those in need. 🍻
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Greene King
5 years
On #Worldcancerday we are delighted to say that we have reached the £5m milestone for our charity partner, @MacmillanCancer . A huge thank you to all of our customers and team members for helping us to raise this incredible amount of money in just six years!
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Greene King
5 years
We are pleased to say that we have appointed Ross O’Hara as head brewer. Ross joined us in 2016 as a shift brewer but subsequently became new product development brewer and last year became the world’s youngest Master Brewer. He becomes our 17th head brewer.
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Greene King
3 years
We're delighted that despite all the challenges over the past year, we've passed £9m raised for @macmillancancer since our fundraising partnership began in 2012. We're so proud of our teams for their amazing fundraisers and thank all our customers for their generous support💚🙏
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Greene King
8 years
We were delighted to welcome @David_Cameron to our Bury St Edmunds brewery today
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Greene King
4 years
We're extremely proud and humbled to see so many of our pubs going above and beyond to offer free meals to children this week. At a time like this it's important we look after each other and this reinforces the role that pubs play at the heart of communities.
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Greene King
6 years
Great fun this morning at the Kings Arms in Mayfair (transformed into the #KingsmanArms for the day) with @absoluteradio broadcasting live from the pub!
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Greene King
3 years
We know pubs are important places for people who are lonely during the festive period and 72% of Brits agree. We hope to be able to open as many of our pubs as possible this Christmas
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Greene King
3 years
@MBcareers
Mitchells & Butlers Careers
4 years
Even though times are tough our brand team members have started the #HospitalityChain trend on TikTok to bring some joy to the industry. Who's next? 👀 @greeneking @MarstonsPLC #MitchellsandButlers
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Greene King
3 years
Here's Steve, our manager at the Mulberry Tree, with his Fun Folk shanty - inspired by his love of the pub. Pub shanty challenge...over to you @eatdrinkmb @StonegatePubs @MarstonsPLC @Fullers @YoungsPubs #pubshanty #pubs #challenge #abitoffun
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Greene King
2 years
We've had an amazing response so far to our #Tub2Pub campaign with @cocre8now to collect empty plastic confectionery tubs at our managed pubs for all of January and in turn convert them into funds for our charity partner @macmillancancer Read more here:
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Greene King
4 years
As the nation pauses this morning to remember all who have sacrificed their lives for our country, our thoughts turn also to those from our own brewery who went off to war, never to return. #LestWeForget
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Greene King
6 years
Today we held coffee mornings in our offices in Bury and Burton for our charity partner @macmillancancer . Cakes were made and devoured and we raised over £2,500! Our pubs will be holding lots of great coffee mornings across the country throughout the rest of the week.
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Greene King
2 years
This may not be the Christmas we were expecting a few weeks ago, but thank you to everyone who has continued to support pubs and brewers throughout 2021. Wherever you're able to celebrate Christmas this year, we wish you a happy and healthy festive season and New Year. Cheers!
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Greene King
5 years
@StuartBroad8 and @JasonRoy20 called it before the tournament began, but will they be right come Saturday lunchtime? We hope so! Good luck to @EnglandRugby
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Greene King
3 years
Happy Friday everyone and some welcome news for your weekend – from today you can book an outdoor table in one of our pub gardens in England from 12 April! Click here to book your table at a Greene King-managed pub: We can't wait to welcome you back🍻
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Greene King
5 years
We are really proud to have worked with @MacmillanCancer to create a collection of traditional #Christmas #recipes to help people cope with the effects of cancer and its treatment this Christmas. Find out more about this fantastic project here -
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Greene King
7 years
We're on the move. Amazing atmosphere in #London for the #LordMayorsShow
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Greene King
6 years
What a fantastic result! Yesterday Greene King XX Mild was crowned winner of the Champion Beer of Britain in the mild category at the @GBBF ! If you’re heading to the festival you can try it at our stand all weekend.
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Greene King
7 years
Our pubs in London will be joining @BritishRedCross in their #NightforLondon on Saturday and donating £1 from every fish & chips sold.
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British Red Cross 🧡
7 years
Stand together with #London this Saturday. Take a ride, eat a dish & say cheers to raise money for the UK Solidarity Fund. #NightForLondon
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Greene King
4 years
Our pubs are more than just buildings, they are the hub of the community. Welcome back, we’ve missed you.
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Greene King
4 years
To those who gave so much, we thank you. ❤️ #VEday #RaiseAGlass #NationsToast
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Greene King
6 years
As part of our pledge to send zero waste to landfill by 2020, we will be introducing compostable PLA straws across our entire UK estate of 1,750 pubs. This will remove over 30 million plastic straws from use every year.
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Greene King
5 years
With temperatures set to get up to 30 degrees this bank holiday, we’re trialling the UK’s first beer garden vending machine, complete with sunglasses, sun cream, and deodorant at the Anchor Bankside pub in Southwark! #FunInTheSun #TakeCare
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Greene King
5 years
Over 1,000 of our pubs show live football, is it time for #VAR in the bar?
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Greene King
4 years
While pubs were closed our brewing & distribution teams were flat out brewing & bottling for supermarkets, collecting casks from pubs & refilling them with fresh beer. Check out some of the heroes behind the scenes in our business who made that happen.
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Greene King
4 years
We're expanding delivery & click & collect takeaway to 40 more pubs in the North West, East Anglia & East Midlands. From 10 June they’ll offer a range of classic pub dishes including fish & chips & limited range of packaged beers, wines and soft drinks.
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Greene King
4 years
We were absolutely stunned by the passion and commitment shown by our pub teams when fundraising for @macmillancancer - across September and October - together they have raised £1m! Huge thanks to everyone who contributed
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Greene King
4 years
Congratulations to 25 of our team members from Destination Pubs, Pub Partners and Brewing & Brands who braved Mount Snowdon in very foggy weather yesterday, raising funds for our charity partner @macmillancancer If you want to donate please visit:
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Greene King
3 years
It's been a momentous day as we welcome communities back into our pubs for the first time in 2021. Cheers🍻
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Greene King
3 years
We're pleased to confirm 442 of our managed pubs will reopen outdoors from 12 April. A significant number of our leased and tenanted pubs will reopen from this date as well. To find out if your local managed Greene King pub is one of the 442, go to
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Greene King
7 years
Proud to be the new official ale partner of @gloucesterrugby ! Expect beer festivals on match days and much more...
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Greene King
7 years
Today we head to London with our float ready for the @lordmayors_show tomorrow, where we are going to be bringing our iconic London pubs to life! Here’s a sneak peek...
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Greene King
8 years
We won the Best Managed Pub Company award at this year’s #publicanawards . A testament to the hard work of all our team members!
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Greene King
5 years
Greene King pubs have partnered with Pennies, the digital charity box, inviting customers to make a 25p donation on a bill over £15. In three months, this has generated ONE MILLION donations and raised £250,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support and the Pennies charity. Wow, wow, wow!
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Greene King
4 years
9 million adults are lonely in the UK. Greene King pubs across the country have the unique opportunity to be the community hub for those struggling for belonging. #NoOneAloneGK
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Greene King
7 years
We’re so proud to announce our amazing employees & guests have raised £3m for our charity partner @MacmillanCancer
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Greene King
6 years
Since its launch in 2016, our partnership with @PrincesTrust has supported 244 young people nationwide, each with their own story. Rahina was part of our first programme in 2016 and her story is among the most inspirational. Watch the full video here –
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Greene King
3 years
We were pleased to welcome @Keir_Starmer to our pub The Sandpiper in Chafford Hundred today to talk about the impact of the pandemic on pubs, the additional support we need from government and the roadmap for reopening hospitality again @UKLabour #hospitality #pubs
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Greene King
6 years
Great to be recognised at the #BetterSocietyAwards for our charity partnership with @macmillancancer
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Greene King
5 years
After @Edsheeran bought his wife a pub we were asked by @Capitalofficial to help rebrand a pub just for Ed. Check out the temporary new look we gave to the George in Southwark today! Just a shame he couldn’t make the grand opening! #ShapeofBrew
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Greene King
6 years
Our @ChefandBrewer pubs are offering @macmillancancer professionals a free meal throughout January to thank them for their hard work over the festive period. More information here -
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Greene King
4 years
As we get closer to pubs being able to reopen, we have confirmed that we will support all our leased and tenanted partners with an initial round of PPE for their pubs, bringing our total financial support for them during the Covid-19 crisis to £15m
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Greene King
4 years
We're supporting our food donation partners, @felixprojectuk and @FareShareUK , by so far donating £40,000 worth of food for important causes #community #pubs #foodsupport
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Greene King
6 years
Proud to have won ‘Best Apprenticeship Programme’ last night at the @trainingjournal awards. We are passionate about apprenticeships and their role in developing our team members’ careers and are so pleased to have been recognised. #TJAwards17
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Greene King
7 years
Better late than never, we have finally taken on the #mannequinchallenge with this Christmassy pub scene.
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Greene King
5 years
@AndyCSP Hi Andy, we’re sorry to hear about this. We are looking into it urgently and will come back to you tomorrow. Please be assured we don’t discriminate against any customers and everyone is welcome in Greene King pubs.
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Greene King
7 years
Stopping work for a moment to watch the #TourofBritain riders fly past our brewery in #BuryStEdmunds
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Greene King
7 years
We are thrilled Greene King Pub Partners has won Best Tenanted and Leased Pub Company (201+ sites) at #publicanawards
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Greene King
6 years
Excitement today as Hollywood rolled into our home town of Bury St Edmunds and transformed it to film scenes for a new #DavidCopperfield film based on the classic novel by Charles Dickens.
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Greene King
8 years
Delighted that our Bury St Eds brewery tour has received a 5th consecutive @TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence!
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Greene King
7 years
If you’re in London tomorrow for the @lordmayors_show visit a Greene King pub, grab some fish and chips and you’ll be helping to raise money for @MacmillanCancer !
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Greene King
3 years
We're thrilled to confirm that 51 of our managed pubs in Scotland will be opening their pubs gardens from Monday 26 April 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Check whether your local Greene King or @BelhavenBrews managed pub will be opening its garden by the end of April by visiting
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Greene King
6 years
Following our announcement that we have raised £4million so far for @MacmillanCancer , here is a short video to celebrate the milestone…
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