GPG Letter

Young & Co's Brewery PLC
12 July 2002

The Company announces that a copy of a letter from Guinness Peat Group plc
relating to their requisitioned resolutions, to be put to shareholders at the
Company's forthcoming Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 16 July 2002 has been
circulated to all shareholders together with a written response from the
Chairman of Young & Co.'s Brewery PLC.


Copies of the above documents have also been submitted to the UK Listing
Authority and will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing
Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:


Financial Services Authority

25 The North Colonnade

Canary Wharf

London E14 5HS


Telephone: [phone]


Copies of the above documents can also be obtained on request from the Company's
registered office: The Ram Brewery, Wandsworth, London SW18 4JD. Telephone 020
8875 7000



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