THE owner of Tennent’s Lager has taken a minority stake in Innis & Gunn. London-listed C&C Group has invested in the eight per cent equity holding as part of a renewed partnership with the Edinburgh-based craft beer firm. The new deal, which builds on a relationship between the two players stretching back to 2010, includes a long-term incentive scheme, under which a number of additional shares will be available to C&C if performance targets are met. Innis & Gunn’s beers will continue to be brewed and packaged at Tennent’s Wellpark Brewery in the east end of Glasgow, as well as its Inveralmond Brewery in Perth.