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Fuller's runs pubs and hotels across southern England, making money by selling food and drinks to customers and by letting people stay overnight.
Fuller's is a pub company. It owns and runs a few hundred pubs, mostly in London and the south of England, plus a small collection of hotels. People come in for a pint, a Sunday roast, or a room for the night, and Fuller's collects the money at the till and the front desk.
The business splits into two halves. The bigger half is managed pubs and hotels, where Fuller's runs the place itself and keeps the profit after paying staff, rent, and suppliers. The smaller half is tenanted pubs, where an individual licensee runs the pub and pays Fuller's rent and buys beer through the company. That second model is lower risk and steadier, but it gives up some of the upside when a pub does well. Beer is part of the story too. Fuller's has brewed its own ale for a long time, including London Pride, and it still sells its beers to other pubs and retailers, not just its own houses. The company sold its entire beer business to Asahi in 2019 for £250 million, then bought it back in 2025 for £86 million — a striking round trip that says a lot about how the beer market changed in between. Buying it back gives Fuller's control over its own supply and a brand customers recognize.
Pubs are a tough, slow-growth business. Costs for staff, energy, and wages keep rising, and the UK has been closing pubs for years. Fuller's edge is location and quality: many of its pubs are historic buildings in desirable spots that cannot easily be copied. It also pays a dividend and has been buying back shares, a sign management thinks the stock is cheap. The risk is simple — if people drink out less or costs keep climbing, the tills ring a little softer.
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