Beltring, Kent - Whitbread Hop Farm - postcard c.1980s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  The Whitbread Hop Farm, Beltring, Kent
• Publisher:  Whitbread Hop Farm / printed by Judges
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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The Hop Farm Family Park is a 400-acre (1.6 km²) Country Park in Beltring, near East Peckham in Kent, England, is over 450 years old, and has the largest collection of oast houses in the world.^[1]

Until 1997 The hop farm was known as The Whitbread Hop Farm and was owned by the Whitbread brewery. Originally a working farm, the brewery opened it up to visitors and it proved a popular attraction.

As Whitbread were seeking to move out of the brewing trade, they began looking for new owners in the 1990s.^[2]

In 1997, Mohamed Al-Fayed wanted to buy The Hop Farm to stable his Shire horses, and another rival wanted it for a rare breeds centre, but Brent and Fiona Pollard were successful in their purchase, at a cost of 2 million pounds (beating their nearest rival by £5000).^[2] Unfortunately, due to mis-management, the business was in trouble; turnover was around £700,000 a year and in 1995 losses were £1.5 million.^[2] In their first year the Pollands reduced staff from 50 to 14 and suffered a drought, floods, a gas pipeline installation and the outbreak of foot and mouth disease. However they broke even, and in subsequent years their profits grew.^[2] In 2006, The Hop Farm was sold to Kent Attractions Ltd^[2] and in 2007 sold again to Peter Bull.^[2] In 2012, The Hop Farm underwent radical management restructure in an effort to halt a five-year slide in visitor numbers,^[3] however in 2013 the company went into liquidation.^[2] It was later rescued by another company from within The Hop Farm group of companies.^[4]

type=printed

city/ region=beltring

period=post-war (1945-present)

postage condition=unposted

number of items=single

size=continental/ modern (150x100 mm)