According to the Go-Ahead Northern accounts between 1990 and 1996, the company used to own at least 20 tenanted public houses in the north east that they purchased from Scottish & Newcastle, under a "Go-Ahead Leisure" subsidiary. They appeared to sell these public houses at a profit when they became the Go-Ahead Group, following their purchase of London General and Oxford Bus Company.
Does anyone know which public houses that the company owned when they were able to organise a piss-up in a brewery? It doesn't appear to be in the public record, and the fact that they owned pubs is quite well hidden too.
Go-Ahead Leisure