The Times: Brewery king on £1bn pub crawl

Rooney Anand has built Greene King into a leading brewery, pubs and restaurant chain. He says he loves to compete. Rivals are less impressed.

The shy, retiring Rooney Anand is anything but. “Just going to have a jimmy. Then you will have my unbridled attention,” says the Greene King boss, placing two pints of IPA on our table before heading off to the gents. And there was I thinking that, because he never gives interviews and doesn’t mix easily with other brewers, he would be a hard man to pin down. How wrong can you be? To read more click here.