SA Brain, the Cardiff-based brewer and leisure operator, expects to continue the rate of expansion of its Coffee#1 brand in 2014 by opening c10 next year, Brains retail director Philip Lay has told M&C Report.

The latest outlet opened last week in Swansea, which followed an opening in Carmarthen in November. The next opening will be Pershore, Worcestershire, at the start of February.

Lay said the 38-strong chain would continue to expand its geographical reach. Earlier this year it opened its most easterly unit yet in Shirley, Southampton.

Brains has opened 23 Coffee#1 sites since it bought the then 15-strong chain in October 2011.