Canada: Lakeport Brewing Income Fund appoints CFO

Lakeport Brewing Income Fund announced on July 18 the appointment of Tony Hidalgo as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Hidalgo brings to Lakeport an extensive financial background with more than 13 years in progressively senior finance, controllership, accounting and auditing roles. Mr. Hidalgo is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University.

The company also announced that Karen Trudell, Vice President, Finance, will report directly to the Chair and Chief Executive Officer, providing support in the areas of Investor Relations, financial modeling for strategic growth, and information systems initiatives. Ms. Trudell is also a Chartered Accountant and has been with the company since January 2002. Prior to joining Lakeport, Ms. Trudell was in senior financial roles with Cott Canada and Pepsi Canada.

"I am pleased to welcome Mr. Hidalgo to Lakeport's management team," said Teresa Cascioli, Lakeport's Chair and Chief Executive Officer. "Tony's experience in public company finance and accounting functions will support the public company requirements that Lakeport has following our initial public offering which we completed on June 21. I am thrilled to have such high- caliber individuals with finance and accounting acumen to support me in monitoring, reporting, and tracking Lakeport's results for all of its unitholders. The structure we have put in place ensures that Lakeport has a management team with highly complementary skills focused on growth."

Lakeport Brewing Income Fund is an Ontario-based brewery focused on producing value-priced quality beer for the Ontario take-home market. Lakeport produces 10 proprietary beer brands. Its Lakeport Honey Lager is one of the top-selling brands in The Beer Store in Ontario. Lakeport has approximately 163 full-time employees at its production facilities in Hamilton, Ontario. The fund's units trade on the TSX under the symbol TFR.UN (TFR stands for 'two-four').

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