City Brewing Company

City Brewing & Beverage has completed a transfer of control to a new ownership group made up of some of the multistate contract manufacturer’s existing lenders.

Workers at City Brewing’s Latrobe, Pennsylvania-based facility have returned to work after going on strike last week. A new contract between City management and IUE-CWA Locals 22 and 144 was ratified on Saturday, after being tentatively agreed to last Thursday, TribLive reported. The four-year contract passed with 78% of the vote of members of both locals.

Workers at contract producer City Brewing’s Latrobe, Pennsylvania-based facility went on strike Tuesday after being without a contract since March 3, TribLive reported. The IUE-CWA Local 22 union has filed three complaints with the National Labor Relations Board and allege that City leadership has made unilateral changes to a contract, refused to furnish information, taken coercive actions and changed the terms and conditions of employment.

Production has begun at City Brewing’s Irwindale, California-based facility, five months after the brewery’s acquisition from Pabst Brewing, the company announced today.

Pabst Brewing Company today announced a long-term agreement to brew the majority of its production volume at City Brewing Company by December 2024. The Los Angeles-headquartered beer company’s agreement with City Brewing lasts until 2040. News of the new contract agreement comes one year after Pabst Brewing settled a lawsuit against MillerCoors over contract production of its brands.

Another craft-focused contract brewing operation has entered the fray. Great Central Brewing Company (GCBC) broke ground on a new 32,000 sq. ft. contract brewing facility in Chicago last week. Scheduled for a summer 2016 opening, the brewery joins a growing list of craft-minded contract facilities established to help other small producers scale up, instead of focusing on their own in-house labels.