Watt stepped down as CEO later that year. His replacement James Arrow left under a year later. Watt’s fellow co-founder Martin Dickie announced his exit from the business in August last year.In January 2024, it emerged the company was to stop paying some of its hospitality staff the UK’s so-called real living wage to tackle increased costs.An open letter , posted online under the name ‘Punks With Purpose’ and signed by 76 former employees, claimed BrewDog was built around a “cult of personality” of Watt and ...