Wait. So they opened an export-focussed company a year after the Brexit vote? I mean it sucks and all, for them, but it doesn’t sound too bright either.
I agree with your premise but also, post-Brexit exports are still a thing. Sounds like some other stuff tipped them over the edge though, like grain & barley prices following the illegal invasion of Ukraine.
I'm a bit skeptical of Brexit being significant here. Craft beer from small breweries generally isn't exported, and often it doesn't go that far from the area in which it's brewed.
All the other reasons listed (pandemic, cost of living crisis, tax rules etc) are plausible though.
“We were heavily geared for export. We’d be selling to Finland, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Netherlands, Italy, Spain. We had Hungary in the pipeline. And it all disappeared with Brexit.”
Looks like it was meant for export here.
If Brexit contributed to a general economic downturn then luxury goods with cheaper and readily available substitute goods would be one of the first to be hit by people spending less.
But like you said, it's probably very hard to delineate the effects of Brexit from general economic malaise.
People are focussing pretty heavily on the "Brexit" part despite the article going in to way more detail on other contributing factors. Throwing Brexit in the title line as if it is the sole reason was purely for effect here and to get you to click it.
