{"id":1169,"date":"2004-04-21T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/21\/cool-2\/"},"modified":"2004-04-21T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-21T20:09:00","slug":"cool-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/21\/cool-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sleeman Breweries Ltd. of Guelph, Ont., will pay $36.5 million for Chambly-based craft brewer and Quebec competitor Unibroue Inc., the two companies announced yesterday. The price includes $5.5 million in Unibroue debt.<\/p>\n<p>The deal gives Sleeman much-needed brewing capacity, an instant chunk of the Quebec micro-brewery market, and a prospering distribution channel into the U.S. market to add to Sleeman&apos;s own efforts there, analysts said. It&apos;s also expected to add about $5 million to Sleeman&apos;s operating profits next year, consolidating Sleeman&apos;s position as Canada&apos;s third-largest brewer behind giants Molson and Labatt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sleeman Breweries Ltd. of Guelph, Ont., will pay $36.5 million for Chambly-based craft brewer and Quebec competitor Unibroue Inc., the two companies announced yesterday. The price includes $5.5 million in Unibroue debt. The deal gives Sleeman much-needed brewing capacity, an instant chunk of the Quebec micro-brewery market, and a prospering distribution channel into the U.S&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/21\/cool-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Cool!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-iR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}