Who owns Brewers Retail Inc. (The Beer Store, Ontario)

Brewers Retail Inc. (The Beer Store, Ontario) - Profile

Brewers Retail Inc. trades as The Beer Store, the brewer owned retail and wholesale chain that has sold beer in Ontario since 1927. It lists products from Ontario, Canadian and international brewers on non discriminatory terms at prices approved by the provincial regulator, supplies bars, restaurants and other licensees, operates LCBO Convenience Outlets in smaller communities and provides draught and logistics services to other retailers. It also runs the province's beer container recovery system and participates in Ontario's Deposit Return Program, taking back and reusing or recycling roughly 1.6 billion containers a year and more than 170 billion since it began. Its role changed in May 2024 when the Ontario government opened beer and wine sales to convenience stores, grocers and big box retailers ahead of schedule, and the chain has closed dozens of outlets since, operating under an agreement to maintain at least 300 stores to the end of 2025. It is owned by the brewers whose beer it sells, principally Molson Coors, Labatt Breweries of Canada and Sleeman.

The disclosed stakes

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• Molson Coors Beverage Company, as of 30 Jun 2026. Q2 2026 10-Q, Note 3 'Investments', Equity Method Investments: 'Our equity method investments include our ownership interests in Brewers Retail Inc. ("BRI") and Brewers Distributor Ltd. ("BDL"), as well as other immaterial investments. The total balance of our equity method investments was $145.3 million and $135.7 million as of June 30, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively.' This is a COMBINED balance covering BRI, BDL and unnamed other immaterial investments; the filing does not split it by investee, so per the rule on combined equity-method balances, value_usd is null here rather than assigned to BRI alone (the combined $145.3m figure is in notes/unknowns, not attributed to any one line). Ownership percentage: not disclosed in any Molson Coors SEC filing found. A web search found secondary/press sources (Wikipedia-sourced, undated as of this research) reporting BRI ("The Beer Store") ownership as approximately Molson Coors 50.9%, Labatt/AB InBev 44.9%, Sleeman/Sapporo 4.2%, plus a small pool of Ontario craft brewers; this was NOT confirmed against a primary filing or a dated source and is deliberately left out of pct_of_target to avoid reporting an unverified, possibly-stale figure as sourced. source