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...Diageo, owner of the Johnnie Walker brands, this month warned of weaker profits in the six months to December because of slower sales in Latin America and the Caribbean, while the Scotch Whisky Association...
...The US was one of two markets among the top 10 destinations for Scotch to record a fall in the first half of 2023, with exports dropping 5.1 per cent to £437mn, according to the Scotch Whisky Association...
...A longstanding council member, and eventual chair of the Scotch Whisky Association, Menezes poured more than £1bn of investment into Scottish whisky, reopening two long closed ‘ghost distilleries’ in Brora...
...Irish distillers cannot yet compete with the vast stocks of aged Scotch whiskies, which can command very high prices....
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...Growth was driven by strong sales in Taiwan, Singapore, India and China, the Scotch Whisky Association said....
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...Data from the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) showed that while total sales to the US lagged behind a broader recovery, they still managed to grow 8 per cent in 2021, compared with a 32 per cent fall the...
...Last month, the Scotch Whisky Association became the first UK food and drink trade body to partner with Race to Zero, the UN’s campaign to promote carbon-cutting initiatives worldwide....
...The Scotch Whisky Association announced this month the sector had cut its emissions of greenhouse gases by more than half since 2008 — but it admitted it would be harder to hit its self-imposed target of...
...But I get the impression that, just occasionally, really V, V, VIPs may be given a glimpse within....
...The use of grain, peat and barrels from overseas is permitted (as it is in the production of Scotch whisky), but the deed must be done in Japan....
...Alan Park, legal director of the Scotch Whisky Association, views such products as essentially counterfeit, noting many countries have legal definitions of whisky that require a specified period of barrel-ageing...
...You might think that distillers would be grateful to anyone who solved this conundrum, but not the Scotch Whisky Association....
...Bespoken’s launch met with a frosty response from the Scotch Whisky Association, which said many markets required maturation in casks for a spirit to be sold as “whisky”, including the UK and EU, where it...
...Exports to the US have since dropped by almost a third, according to the Scotch Whisky Association. Year-on-year monthly exports of single malts have fallen by 20-40 per cent or so since February....
...The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA), a trade body, welcomed the additional support as well as the continued duty freeze on spirits, but said it had been hoping the chancellor would cut duty on Scotch whisky...
...More than four bottles per second on average were exported last year to the US, the industry’s largest and most valuable market, according to the Scotch Whisky Association....
...Of this, £344m were single malts that are now to be subject to the 25 per cent tariff, according to the Scotch Whisky Association, an industry lobby group....
...The company, which is also investing £35m to reopen two former distilleries, said it wanted the Edinburgh site to become known “not only as one of the greatest whisky attractions of the world, but one of...
...Brexit is a “seismic shift”, says the Scottish Whisky Association — though it supports the deal put forward by prime minister Theresa May....
...While Scotch whisky has “dominated the market for centuries, English whisky is a new niche companies are experimenting with,” said Thomas Falconer, analyst at IbisWorld....
...The Scotch Whisky Association industry body said that spirits duty is still 76 per cent above the EU average of £16.31 and that last year’s freeze actually helped boost tax revenues by encouraging consumption...
...The Scotch Whisky Association says 15 whisky distilleries have opened in Scotland in the past five years — seven of them in the past 12 months — with an estimated further 20 planned or under construction...
...In Speyside, deep in whisky country, the Balmenach Distillery was one of the first to be granted a licence for Scotch, back in 1824....
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