William Grant & Sons

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Glen-, uh, Glen Grant and stuff like that.

Mm-hmm.

But aye, aye, um-

And- But this is, you get into who can put the oldest date on the bottle.

Well, yeah.

It's- But then there's also just the fact, like I've said it before and, you know- Yeah ... and they're not gonna c- like the Will- the, the Grant, for the William Grant & Sons family, like the Grants and the Gordons- Sure ... are like the third-biggest taxpayer in Scotland.

Mm-hmm.

So basically, the story goes, it was in the 1960s.

It was a William Grant and Sons director called Sandy.

who there's a whiskey called House of Hazelwood called the Accelerator and the Break.

If anyone's familiar with that or wants some homework, go Google that.

So we also then look out and we work with internal recruiters.

So companies such as Boots, William Grant, the people that do the whisky.

Okay.

Clem Fiddick and Hendrix Gin and all of that.

Actually, there was a year we started off with...

Um, Boots, and then it was Bupa, and then it was the Priory, and William Grant.

So it was like, what's going on here? It's like the medical side, and all of a sudden, I think we finished the year with the Priory.

There's a link here to what's going on.

had that conversation so many times.

Even speaking to someone like Tim Walker, work for William Grant and Sons and it's like for Glenfinnych you know they can sit on the supermarket shelf where you can go into any shop and get the green triangular bottle of 12 at a reasonable price but then at the same time and you know you've got the grand the the chateau up there the 31 year old that we were lucky enough to finish up there and it's like where where do you sit with that and because it's always been a conversation probably since that episode that you were on is yeah supermarket whiskey but then yeah we always talk about this and we Mark Thompson made the point, we're the general whisky consumer as well.

So when you talk about the general whisky consumer, you know, it's who are they? And there are people out there.

The surprise package that everyone, I was actually looking at it today because it's still referenced on Google, is the top two selling single malts in the UK by volume, Tamnavillan, or Jura number one, Tamnavillan number two.

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became the country head for William Grant & Sons all the way up to 2010.

Had the wonderful sort of opportunity to launch Glenfiddich, Balvenie, later Hendricks, Monkey Shoulder in the country.

Does this person need to understand a lot about Alcobev and do they need to really enjoy alcohol to be in this space? Hi, welcome to another episode of the Prime Venture Partners podcast.

So Ankur is one of the market leaders in the alcohol beverage industry in India.

He's almost spent his entire life, 25 years in AlcoBev.

He's had marquee stints at William Grant & Sons, Radico Kaitan.

the kajaria group and the allied blenders and distillers so some of the brands that he is worked on are some real favorites for most of you watching right so in fact he holds the unique distinction of bringing glenfiddich and the balvenie into the indian market So you got to thank him if you really enjoy the drink at some point, right? So like he's built and he's also building this coveted premium only Alcobev brand today.

And finally, the World Spirits Alliance has selected a new CEO.

William Grant and Sons corporate affairs director David Williamson will take over the alliance in November.

Longtime listeners will remember David from his time as the chief spokesman for the Scotch Whiskey Association.

He's been at Grant's for the last eight years.