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Tooth and Company history

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Mittagong Maltings Railway Siding
Draymen with bottled beer in baskets, late 1800s, Kent Brewey, Sydney NSW
Kent Brewery, Sydney, circa 1922
Kent Brewery, Sydney, circa 1922
William Bowra, Kent Brewery cellar foreman. Joined service January 1902, died 4th September, 1936
Office of Bottle Department, Kent Brewery.

In 1835 John Tooth, and Charles Newnham opened the Kent Brewery on Parramatta Road in Sydney using a loan from John Tooth's brother Robert. In the mid 1840s John Tooth dissolved the partnership with Newnham and leased the brewery to his brother Robert's sons, Robert Jr and Edwin. In June 1888 Tooth & Company became a publicly listed company with capital of 900,000 pounds. In 1905 the Company acquired the New South Wales Malting Company's works at Mittagong.

Over the next two decades the company acquired the Maitland Brewery (1913), the Castlemaine Brewery and Wood Brothers, Newcastle (1921); breweries in Wagga Wagga, Narrandera and Goulburn and in 1929 they acquired Resch's Limited. In 1977 the company acquired Wright, Heaton and Company and Penfolds Wines Limited and in 1978 Courage Brewery Limited. Tooth and Company was acquired by Carlton and United Breweries in 1983.

The company's extensive collection of hotel properties were sold off from 1990. The company was delisted from the Australian Securities Exchange in 2010 after not having traded for many years.

 

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