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Coopers Brewery is an Australian beer company, publicly owned but not listed with a stock exchange. Its shares are primarily owned by the extended Cooper family, and the company's constitution makes it difficult to sell shares outside the family. The brewery was established by Thomas Cooper in 1862 at his home in Norwood then in 1881 relocated to larger, commercial facilities at Leabrook in Adelaide, South Australia, and in 2001 moved to Regency Park. Coopers is known to make a variety of high quality beers, most famous of which is its Sparkling Ale. It is also well established as a producer of home brew supplies and as such is one of the worlds largest producers of home brew ingredients.
The brewery's Managing Director and Chief Brewer is a fifth generation family member, Dr Tim Cooper, who entered the family business in 1993 after originally training as a medical doctor. He has qualifications in medicine ((MBBS, Adelaide), brewing science (MSc, Birmingham) and business administration (MBA, Adelaide). The company's Executive Chairman, Glenn Cooper, is also a fifth generation family member and the cousin of Tim. He entered the business in 1990, having previously worked in IT and marketing roles for both Anderson Digital Equipment and his own Adelaide-based business.
Cooper's beers are widely available on tap in South Australia and Victoria , and in some bars in the rest of Australia as specialty beers. It is widely available bottled around Australia and New Zealand and occasionally at specialist importers in other countries.
Coopers' bottled beers are characterized by their secondary fermentation technique - some yeast remains in the bottle after bottling - thus the bottled beer contains some sediment. There are two schools of thought with regards to the sediment - some drinkers like to mix the sediment throughout the beer by tipping or rolling the beer before drinking, while others prefer to decant the beer into a glass leaving (most of) the sediment at the base of the bottle.
In late 2005, Lion Nathan made an unsolicited takeover bid for Coopers, which was strongly opposed by Coopers' management, and ultimately rejected at an Extraordinary General Meeting when 93.4% of the shareholders voted in favour of permanently removing the 3rd tier purchasing rights of Lion Nathan, effectively preventing any current or future takeover bid.
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