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4th July 2012 |
Lifetime
achievement award for Gordon &
MacPhail’s David Urquhart.
 Joint
Managing Director of Gordon & MacPhail,
David Urquhart, has been honoured by his
industry peers with a lifetime
achievement award for his services to
the Scottish Licensed Trade.
David was presented with the accolade at
the DRAM magazine Scottish Licensed
Trade Awards 2012. Established over
fifteen years ago, the awards were the
first in Scotland to recognise the very
best of the Scottish on-trade industry.
Due to retire this autumn, David has
dedicated 40 years to the work of Gordon
& MacPhail, the whisky and licensed
trade industry and various local
community causes close to his heart,
including the Elgin Bid and the Forres
bid to host the European Pipe Band
Championships.
He has been committed to continuing the
work of his ancestors, who have been
involved in Gordon & MacPhail since its
first year of trading. Established in
1895 as a family run grocers, tea, wine
and spirit merchants in Elgin, the
company has since grown into one of the
UK’s top independent wine and spirits
merchants, alongside its others business
interests as a bottler and exporter of
whiskies from throughout Scotland and a
distiller, owning Benromach Distillery
in Forres.
Commenting on his award David said: “I’m
honoured to receive this award, which
was a huge surprise for me. It’s come at
a very timely point in my career as I
prepare to retire and hand over the work
that I have achieved, along with my
fathers and grandfathers before me, to
the next generation coming through in
the business.
“As a family we have grown Gordon &
MacPhail to be one of the top
independent wholesalers in the UK along
with our growing worldwide recognition
as experts in the Scotch Whisky
industry. I’m proud to have been able to
be part of this.
“I’m confident I’ll be leaving my role
in more than capable hands, and locally
I hope to keep busy with the many
community initiatives Elgin and Forres
are involved in.”
Susan Young, Editor of the DRAM
comments: "David Urquhart has spent the
last 40 years serving the Scottish
licensed trade, and helping to grow his
family company, Gordon & MacPhail. His
passion, commitment, determination, and
above all, his integrity made David a
very worthy recipient of the DRAM
Lifetime Achievement Award.”
Benromach, the distillery owned by
Gordon & MacPhail, was also sponsors of
a special DRAM award – the Benromach
Award for Success.
The judges in this category were looking
for a business that had successfully
grown and developed particularly over
the last year – whether by growing their
turnover or by further developing their
business in other ways. Nominees were
asked to share the secret of their
success.
The gold medal and the title of
Benromach Award for Success went to
SimpsInns, followed by Omni Taverns
(silver medal) and Fort Hotel (bronze
medal)
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