The investment amounts to multiple millions a year. Being family owned we can tolerate very long investment programmes.” Gordon & MacPhail CEO Phillip White outside the Benromach distillery in Forres.
While keeping Benromach’s diminutive size intact, the new owner installed two new stills in 1998 and, roughly 100 years after spirits first trickled there, whisky began flowing again.
The group owns the Benromach distillery. It opened The Cairn distillery in 2022 following £20m investment. The group withdrew from the wholesale market in the latest year to focus on its own brands.
The Elgin-based group, which owns Benromach Distillery in Forres, saw pre-tax profit climb by about 20% to £15.6m in the year to the end of February. Total sales were up 4% to £41m, with ...