CANTON — A Canton-based brewery has raised $325,000, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
BearWaters Brewing Co. plans to raise another $280,000, or $605,000 in total.
The company did not state what it plans to do with the raised funds.
Founder and CEO Kevin Sandefur signed the document. Using a grant obtained from the Haywood County Chamber of Commerce, Sandefur opened his first brewery after he attended a beer conference in 2009, according to the company’s website.
Initially, his company operated from a warehouse in Waynesville, North Carolina. BearWaters Brewing opened in 2012.
The filing can be found on line.
This story is from the North Carolina Business News Wire, a service of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Media and Journalism