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Article: Thai beer and spirits firm buys Inver House Distillers
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- October 30, 2006
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INVER House Distillers, the Airdrie-based producer of whisky
brands including Old Pulteney and Knockdhu, Heather Cream liqueur and
Coldstream London Gin, has been bought for a "high eight-figure sum"
by International Beverage Holdings (InterBev), the international arm
of Thai Beverages.
Inver was founded in 1964, originally supplying the US market with
the Inver House Green Plaid brand of blended Scotch Whisky. In 1988
it was sold to a management buyout and then again in 2001 to Pacific
Spirits UK, part of the Virgin Islands-based Great Oriole Group, for
GBP 58m.
It currently exports to over 80 countries worldwide and produces
500,000 barrels of whisky a year, and had an 8 per cent rise in ...