The British Beer and Pub Association is the drinks and hospitality industry's largest and most influential trade association

Trade association

A trade association, also known as an industry trade group, business association or sector association, is an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry...

 representing 98% of UK brewing (by volume) and the ownership of over half of the nation's 54,000 pubs.

History

The Association was founded in 1904 as the Brewers' Society, was for a period in the 1990s known as the Brewers and Licensed Retailers Association before becoming the British Beer & Pub Association in 2000 to reflect its growing pub company membership.

Structure

The British Beer & Pub Association or BBPA has a head office in London on the A3205 near the A3086 junction and Vauxhall station

Vauxhall station

Vauxhall station is a National Rail, London Underground and London Buses interchange station in central London. It is at the Vauxhall Cross road junction opposite the southern approach to Vauxhall Bridge over the River Thames in the London district of Vauxhall...

. It is on the boundary of the London boroughs of Wandsworth and Lambeth. There are three regional offices in Scotland, the North of England and the Midland Counties. (Contacts through www.beerandpub.com/getInTouch.aspx)

The current Chairman of the Association is Ralph Findlay, Managing Director of Marstons Plc and its Chief Executive is Brigid Simmonds OBE.