million, but took just over ten years to go into administration with debts, indicating a loss of £38 million - sinking over £3.5 million per year. In 2007, a reverse takeover of AIM-listed pub operator Honeycombe Leisure plc was agreed by the company's board, giving Cains access to Honeycombe's 109 outlets and a stock market listing. The company was renamed Cains Beer Company PLC and, like Cains Brewery, ceased to function and accrued insurmountable debts within a year. In 2008, the company was placed in administration due to unpaid tax and other debts amounting to £38 million, despite its annual turnover of £65.5 million. Negotiations with its bank failed to reach a conclusion that would have avoided administration. The brewery and eight original pubs were bought back by the Dusanj brothers for £103,750. As the Dusanji family holds the freehold to the brewery site and controls the terms of any lease for brewery operation, no other buyer could be found. In 2013, it ended contract brewing and production of supermarket beers, and then ceased brewing altogether, finding a contract brewer for its own beers. 38 staff were made redundant. Cains was down to an estate of three pubs – the Brewery Tap, Dr Duncan's and The Dispensary. By 2015, it had an estate of five pubs, the additional two being Kelly's Dispensary in Smithdown Road and The Edinburgh in Wavertree. In 2013, Cains began a redevelopment of the site for leisure and housing with a small craft brewery to continue production of its ales. In 2014, Cains arranged for small quantities of its beers to be contract-brewed for export and sale in it pub estate. Cains Brewery Village Liverpool City Council granted planning permission for Cains Brewery Village in 2013. This was described as a tourism, leisure and retail attraction. The million square foot site would have included a 94-bedroom hotel, cinema, bistro bar, restaurants and an open-plan retail hall for artisan food producers. A food hall opened on the site in 2017. It was open four times a week and operated by Baltic Markets, offering food, drink, entertainment and live events. Brewing restarted at the site in the spring of 2022, using the original recipes. Planning permission was granted for a £3.5 million 'BOXPARK' foodhall and events space in January 2023. Intended to replace the existing food and drink hall, the new facility will have ten kitchen units with