Empire Beer Group Limited
In October 2006, Lamont was an inaugural Director of the Empire Beer Group Limited, which ran pubs, brewed beers. Lamont featured in its public prospectus which aimed to raise $10,000,000 AU by way of the issue of shares at an issue price of $0.35 each.
By December 2007 the stock was trading at $0.16, by July 2008 the stock was trading at $0.05 and by February 9 it was trading atP $0.03, a $9 million reduction on the original $10 million raised capital.
On the 18th of March 2009, Kate Lamont resigned as a non-executive director of Empire.
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