Whisky Forum - Family Owners Destillerys

Shut · Last edited by Shut on Wed May 23, 2018 8:16 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hello to all,

How many destillerys still from familiary owners? I mean not in big groups like diageo...

I only know Glenfarclas

thanks in advance

Charlie · Master Of Malts Joined: 23 Sep 2008 Posts: 1407

Hi Shut

I assume you mean independently or family owned rather than a large company. There are a few such as Kilchoman and I suppose you could say Benromach which is owned by Gordon & Macphail

Shut · Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 8:12 pm Post subject:

William · Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 11:23 pm Post subject:

There are a few big distilleries owned by a family run whisky business. Many of the new smaller distilleries are either independently owned, family owned or are the sole distillery owned by a small private group or company. Such as :

Distillery - Owner

Also one of the biggest whisky companies is still Scottish family owned - William Grant & Sons which owns Ailsa Bay, Balvenie, Glenfiddich and Kininvie distilleries.
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Shut · Posted: Thu May 24, 2018 7:28 am Post subject:

thank yoy William, very appreciated for me

webdunk · Posted: Thu May 24, 2018 7:41 am Post subject:

William · Posted: Thu May 24, 2018 12:34 pm Post subject:

You are right webdunk, the Tomatin Distillery Co is owned by Japanese saki and shochu manufacturer, Takara Shuzo Company . I quickly put the list together late last night and was also including sole distillery's owned by a company and I produced the list by quickly by copy and pasting from a file I have. Tomatin shouldn't have been listed given the original question.
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unblended · Master Of Malts Joined: 20 Mar 2015 Posts: 440

what about springbank ?