7:40pm Wednesday 17th March 2010
By Dave King
THREE generations of the Clifford family – who own the Blunsdon House Hotel – were presented with a plaque by three generations of the Arkell’s family to commemorate 50 years of doing business together.
Arkell’s Brewery visited the hotel to thank and pay tribute to the Family as the hotel celebrates 50 years in business in Swindon this year.
Brewery chairman, James Arkell, said: “It is a huge pleasure to have supplied Swindon’s best-known and most successful hotel for fifty years.
“Arkell’s has been in business for just a bit longer, 167 years, but we still have much in common including being family-owned with generations of local people working for both businesses, both our roots run deep in Swindon and we are proud to belong to a small group of businesses which are proud to boast of our shared heritage within the town.”
Arkell’s managed house director Craig Titchener started his professional career as an apprentice at the Blunsdon House Hotel before he began working for Arkell’s some years later. Mr Arkell said: “The importance of family businesses contributing to the local economy should not be underestimated.
“It is these businesses which contribute continuity and personality to a town, and we look forward to working with the Blunsdon House Hotel for its next 50 years.”
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