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Northern Irish brewery cans Republic over ‘unworkable’ deposit return scheme
Rodger Doherty, director of Lacada Brewery, urged authorities across the UK and Ireland to co-operate on deposit returns to ease pain for small producers
Northern Irish co-operative brewery Lacada has pulled out of the Republic of Ireland market due to the additional red tape and costs involved in complying with the deposit return scheme (DRS).
Rodger Doherty, Lacada director, said the additional cost of labelling its products differently makes the scheme “unworkable” for the company.
“It’s going to cost me £500 (€585) as a once off cost to just change each label,” he said. “We have five core beers, ...
