Even if the beer tie were to be removed and the current pubco model broken up, beer flow monitoring group Brulines believes its systems would still be required by whoever owned the nation's pub stock.
Speaking as the Stockton-on-Tees-based group announced its annual results today chief executive James Dickson said that in the "highly unlikely" event of the tie being removed owners of pubs, whoever they were, would still want transparency.
In the event that banks replaced today's pubcos, Dickson believed they would want to know what was underpinning the asset they owned.
"Some pubs might understate the level of their business in order to secure a lower rent and a system like Brulines can give data that tells people, owners, what's actually going on," he said.
Brulines, which has beer dispense and quality management systems in more than 23,000 mainly leased and tenanted pubs in the UK, announced turnover up nearly 12 per cent at £19.07m for the year to March 31, 2009.
Operating profits rose 26.5 per cent to £5.05m, while pre-tax profits were up 19.6 per cent at £4.98m.
Dickson said the group's core business - pub installations - had seen good growth, with nearly 1,500 new systems fitted and 500 upgrades.
He said he believed there was a "hell of a lot of growth potential still in the leased pub sector".
The group was also supplying its dispense monitoring equipment to three brewers which were providing loans to independent free trade operators. The brewers wanted to "understand the business and see that the right volumes are going through the pubs", Dickson added.
Following the Business & Enterprise select committee's critical assessment of Brulines' systems, Dickson said the group was "taking counsel on how best to inform interested parties as to the nature of our business".
"Our door is always open for anyone who wants to know what we do. If people can understand what we do across the 23,000 pubs where we have our systems then that will influence how people see us," he added.
Brulines, which also supplies petrol forecourt data and vending machine analysis, was still seeking a form of national recognition for its systems through talks with trading standards officials, Dickson said.