Scottish Field

Profits grow as whisky firm marks 70 years
Scottish Field
Scotch whisky specialist Douglas Laing is going from strength to strength after revealing operating profits were up by 40% to £2.4m in 2017. The Glasgow-based firm, which has seen double digit growth year on year since 2014, recently announced […]

insider.co.uk

Plans for £10m Hebridean island distillery set to revive spirit of Whisky Galore
insider.co.uk
The community body that runs the estates of islands South Uist, Eriskay and Benbecula is set to bring a taste of “whisky galore” to the Hebrides if plans to create to a new distillery in Lochboisdale […]

Business Up North (press release)

Yorkshire’s first malt whisky distillery fills its 1000th cask of maturing malt
Business Up North (press release)
In April 2016, the Hunmanby based distillery began making the spirit that has to mature for a minimum of three years before it can legally be called whisky. In […]

Benromach to break with tradition and release a gin
The Drinks Business
Benromach Distillery, owned by Scotch bottler Gordon & MacPhail, has unveiled plans to break with its whisky heritage and release a gin which is expected to …

Blooloop

Edrington creates Macallan ‘Cathedral of Whisky’ experience …
Blooloop
Edrington has just unveiled a £150 million new distillery and Macallan visitor experience at Craigellachie in Speyside, Scotland.
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Blooloop

Edrington creates Macallan ‘Cathedral of Whisky‘ visitor experience, Scotland
Blooloop
The new centre, located on the Easter Elchies estate takes centre stage in the £500m investment in the iconic whisky brand. The Macallan has been described as the ‘Rolls Royce’ of Scottish whisky and has enjoyed supporting roles in everything […]

STV News

Whisky helping to reduce trade deficit, says report
STV News
The UK’s trade deficit would be almost 3% greater without Scotch whisky exports, according to new analysis. The deficit reduced from £166bn in 2016 to £153bn last year, research from the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) shows. Without Scotch whisky …

Financial Times

Japan whisky drought offers bitter aftertaste of corporate caution
Financial Times
“For relaxing times,” purrs a louche Bill Murray fronting a whisky advert within the 2003 film Lost in Translation, “make it Suntory time”. Fifteen years later — partly because of that product-placement coup — the times at Suntory […]

HeraldScotland

COMMERCIAL FOCUS: Whisky galore as these seven Scottish distilleries celebrate National Whisky Month
HeraldScotland
DOUGLAS Laing & Co, leading independent Scotch Whisky business, was established by Fred Douglas Laing in 1948 – a year that delivered a number of greats including HRH Prince Charles, Maurizio Gucci as well as musical […]

Belfast Telegraph

Northern Ireland man plays a crucial role in the distilling of Johnnie Walker whisky
Belfast Telegraph
The precise ingredients of the world’s best-selling Scotch whisky brand are, unsurprisingly, a closely-guarded secret. Johnnie Walker, in all its various guises, may have shifted over 156 million litres around the globe in […]