A MULTI-million pound investment was to breathe new life, jobs and soft drinks into a former brewery.
Associated Dairies bought two thirds of the Lion Brewery site in Blackburn as a new production plant for fruit drinks, it was announced today.
And the re-location of its Cravendale Foods fruit drinks division from Accrington was only the first step in an ambitious programme of expansion at the site.
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