Innis & Gunn’s Newest Fairness Crowdfunding Spherical Surpasses £three Million Funding Goal on Seedrs

Simply days earlier than its fairness crowdfunding marketing campaign on Seedrs is about to shut, Scottish brewery Innis & Gunn efficiently secured its preliminary £three million funding goal. The marketing campaign launched in November and has attracted greater than 2,100 Seedrs traders.

As beforehand reported, Innis & Gunn claims to be the second-largest craft brewer within the UK and just lately opened its first bar-restaurant, The Beer Kitchen, in Edinburgh. Inside a matter of six months, the restaurant received the Finest New Idea Award in informal eating and the brewery reportedly acquired Perth-based Inveralmond Brewery. The corporate £2.four million in funding via its Crowdcube spherical lower than three years in the past.

“Since our launch in 2003 Innis & Gunn has led the craft beer motion and change into one of the vital profitable trendy craft beer companies of its time, having fun with 15 years of uninterrupted quantity development. Our beers could be purchased in over 30 nations and we’ve twice received the Queen’s Awards for Worldwide Commerce.”

Innis & Gunn additionally claimed its beers are amongst probably the most awarded on the planet and the brewery itself is one in every of solely a handful of contemporary, unbiased beer companies which have grown past 100,000 hectolitres (1 hectolitre = 100 liters) with out having been acquired by one of many massive brewers. Talking concerning the brewery’s success since launching, Dougal Gunn Sharp, Founder and Grasp Brewer at Innis & Gunn, said:

“Our final aim has at all times been to have our personal brewery on our residence turf, a brewing focus for the town. We need to put Edinburgh again on the worldwide brewing map, and with this funding secured we’re going to have the ability to do exactly that. We’ve acquired bold development plans for the long run and the brewery goes to be instrumental in reaching our long-term potential. With this key step now in place, we’re trying ahead to a really vibrant future.”

Additional commenting on the marketing campaign’s success, Gunn mentioned:

“I’m personally completely delighted by the response we’ve needed to our crowdfund and the endorsement of our beers, our enterprise and our model. I’d like to increase a heat welcome to the 2000+ traders who’ve joined our neighborhood because the fund opened. We’ve at all times mentioned our followers are one in every of our greatest strengths as a enterprise, and we are able to’t wait to welcome you all to the brewery subsequent 12 months for the opening occasion to share a celebratory pint. Huge thanks once more to everybody who has supported us, it’s massively appreciated.”

With regard to what the Seedrs funds can be used for, the Innis & Gunn staff added:

“Your whole funding will go straight into the development of a giant scale brewery that can ceaselessly safe our long-term development capability and Innis & Gunn’s future in Edinburgh, and a house for our model, our workers and our neighborhood.”

By way of the marketing campaign, Innis & Gunn is providing 1.96% in fairness at a £149,750,989 pre-money valuation. The marketing campaign is about to shut subsequent Wednesday.