Yorkshire breer Timothy Taylor’s has posted another year of sales and profit growth, despite a “challenging market for cask ale” and “difficult fiscal and regulatory environment”.
Turnover at Timothy Taylor’s rose by 2.1% to £35.7m in the year ended 30 September 2025, with its flagship ale brand Landlord cementing its position as “the largest-selling cask ale brand in the UK by both value and volume”.
The topline increase was a marked slowdown from the 6% uplift reported in the year prior, however.
Meanwhile, despite a £500k increase in people-related costs resulting from “increased employment tax and regulatory costs”, operating profits at Timothy Taylor’s climbed 18.2% from £2.3m to £2.7m. Pre-tax profits increased 11.3% from £2.7m to £3.0m.
Resources had been allocated to “key areas of in-house engineering, sales, and marketing” with “production and procurement efficiencies” helping to offset higher costs, Timothy Taylor’s said.
The brewer, which also operates a pub estate comprising of two managed and 17 tenanted sites, said it had invested £5.2m across the year, with £3.8m spent on brewery upgrades and the remainer on its pubs and distribution fleet. As a result, cash reserves declined from £8.8m to £6.6m.
Performance across its pub estate in the period had been “mixed”, with underlying income from its tenanted estate down as “high business property rates, changes to National Insurance, and increases in the national living wage,” dragged on profitability.
Timorthy Taylor’s had been required to provide “commercial support” to several pubs in order to “maintain their viability,” the supplier added.
“The company is pursuing a long-term strategy of investing in the brewery, the beer brands, our employees and the business processes as we focus on building a premium position and further increasing market share amidst a challenging market for cask ale,” company chair Tim Clarke said. “Despite those challenges, cask ale continues to be a key differentiator in the consumer appeal of the pubs sector.
“The company is therefore focused on further developing our brand leadership of the category, supported by the ambition to champion the cask ale category.”
Clarke also hit out at rising costs resulting from increases to National Insurance contributions, the national living wage and the Employment Rights Bill.
These changes were “contributing to a very difficult fiscal and regulatory environment in which the company is operating”, he said, adding government policy was currently “not supportive of continued investment in the growth of the business”.
Timothy Taylor’s hired former Chapel Down CEO Andrew Carter to lead the business last year.
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