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| Industry | Drink industry |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1844 |
| Headquarters | Glasgow,Scotland |
Key people | Andrew Lim Tan (Chairman) |
| Products | Scotch whiskies,liqueurs,brandies,gins,sherries. |
| Owner | Alliance Global Group |
Number of employees | 500 |
| Website | whyteandmackayltd |
 Whyte & Mackay Blended Scotch whisky | |
| Type | Scotch whisky |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Whyte & Mackay |
| Origin | Scotland |
| Introduced | 1894 |
| Alcohol by volume | 40% |
| Website | www |
Whyte & MackayLtd is a company producingalcoholic beverages based inGlasgow,Scotland. The company is a subsidiary ofAlliance Global Group, one of the largest alcoholic-beverage companies inSoutheast Asia.
Charles Mackay (1850–1919) and James Whyte founded a company as whisky merchants and bonded warehousemen in Glasgow in 1882. W&M Special was their firstblended whisky and it was successful in theUnited Kingdom and other English speaking countries. AfterWorld War II the company focused on the home market and now sell more than 1 million cases a year.
The Company was purchased by Hugh Fraser's SUITS group in 1971.[1] SUITS was acquired byLonrho in 1981 and subsequently Whyte & Mackay was sold toBrent Walker in 1988 and then toAmerican Brands in 1990, which was renamed as Fortune Brands in 1997.
In 2001 Fortune Brands sold Whyte & Mackay to its management for £208 million[2] in a deal part-financed by brothersRobert Tchenguiz andVincent Tchenguiz and brother-in-lawVivian Imerman and a £190 million loan from German investment bankWestLB. Initially chairman then CEO, Imerman instituted an aggressive cost-cutting programme[3] and bought out 60 shareholder employees[3] before, in 2005, purchasing the remaining interests in the firm with the Tchenguiz brothers. In 2007, they sold the company to Indian-basedUnited Spirits Limited for £595 million.[3][4][5][2]
In August 2013, key members of United Spirits Limited (USL), a subsidiary of United Breweries that owned Whyte & Mackay, resigned from positions at Whyte & Mackay in the wake of the purchase of a controlling share of USL byDiageo, including USL ChairmanVijay Mallya, Whyte & Mackay CEO John Beard, and director Ayani Nedungadi.[6][7][8] Regulators in the UK were investigating whether to force United to divest itself of Whyte & Mackay before the sale due to anti-trust concerns over Diageo's dominant position in Scotch whisky production.[7][8] On 16 September 2013, Whyte & Mackay appointed Bryan Donaghey as its new CEO. Donaghey formerly served as managing director of Diageo for Scotland and prior to Diageo held posts within the Scotch Whisky Association.[9]
On 31 October 2014, theIndia-basedUnited Spirits sold Whyte & Mackay for £430 million to thePhilippines-basedAlliance Global Group and controlled by the group beverage production arm, Emperador Inc.[10]
In 2024 the company recorded record pre-tax profits of £96M, mainly down to the success of The Dalmore. As of 2024, the company's assets sat at £1billion.[11]
In October 2011, Whyte & Mackay formed an import company in the U.S.—Whyte & Mackay Americas—to handle its portfolio in the U.S. market with products including the Jura, The Dalmore, Cluny, John Barr, Glen Salen, Whyte & Mackay and Mackinlay's whisky brands, as well as Glayva Liqueur, Snow Leopard and Pinky vodkas in the U.S.
The company appointed former Bacardi executive Jorge Gutierrez as president of Whyte & Mackay Americas.[12][13] In July 2013, Gutierrez left Whyte & Mackay Americas to become CEO of Voli Vodka.[14][15][16] In September 2013, Whyte & Mackay appointed alcoholic beverage specialist Park Street to provide importing, back-office and enterprise resource planning services for its Whyte & Mackay Americas unit.[17][18][19]
On 1 January 2016, the family-owned wine producer E & J Gallo Winery took over as the US importer of Whyte & Mackay's portfolio.[20]
In June 2025, Whyte & Mackay Fettercairn launched in the US. The offering consisted of the 28, 40, 46 and 50-year-old single malt whisky.[21]
The current Whyte & Mackay North America HQ is situated in New York City, USA.
As well as the United States, Whyte & Mackay have a presence in China, India, and South Africa, plus several European countries such as France, Spain, Belgium and Germany.
Whyte & Mackay operates several distilleries is Scotland:[22]
The company sellsSingle Malt andBlendedScotch whiskies,Liqueurs,Brandy,Cognac andSherry. Their brands include:
Single Malt Whiskies:Dalmore,Fettercairn,Jura andTamnavulin.
Blended Whiskies: Whyte & Mackay, The Woodsman, Shackleton, John Barr and Claymore.
Also in their portfolio: Nemiroff Vodka, Fundador Brandy, Wildcat Gin, Glayva Liqueur, Harveys Sherry, Camus Cognac and The Whisky Works.[23]
In August 2010, it was reported that Whyte & Mackay would replicate a supply of whisky discovered in Antarctica from a 1907 expedition of Antarctic explorerErnest Shackleton's supplies.[24] The 11 bottles of whisky recovered were of the Mackinlay brand, and Whyte and Mackay now oversee those distilleries.
On 14 October 2010, Whyte & Mackay sold two bottles of their 64-year-old Dalmore Trinitas malt whisky for £100,000 each.[25] According to the master distiller, only three bottles of this whisky were ever made, and it cannot be made again.
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Whyte & Mackay were sponsors of theEnglish football teamLeeds United[28] from 2003 to 2006. The brand also formerly sponsoredEdinburgh clubHibernian[29] in theScottish Premier League, theRoyal Challengers Bangalore in theIndian Premier League, the PDCPremier League Darts and theForce IndiaFormula One racing team.
In 2007, Whyte & Mackay signed a three-year contract with the Professional Darts Corporation to sponsor the Premier League Darts starting in 2008. The League was renamed the Whyte & Mackay Premier League Darts.[30]
Whyte & Mackay also sponsored the London-based rugby team, the London Wasps, for the 2012 season.[31]
Whyte & Mackay sponsored the 2017 British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand. The campaign featured “dapper” lions, reflecting the lions on the Whyte & Mackay bottle.[32][33]
Bottles of Whyte & Mackay were recovered by underwater archaeologistE. Lee Spence from the shipwreck of theSS Regina, which had been sunk inLake Huron in 1913. APeople magazine article that told of the recovery, had a picture of Spence on the bow of the salvage boat hoisting a full bottle of Whyte and Mackay.[34]
Whyte & Mackay is developing a plan to achieve carbon net zero by 2040. The company has taken action so far to decarbonise. In 2023, a partnership with Carbon Capture Scotland was announced to capture and recycle CO2 produced during fermentation at the firm's distilleries.[35]
In 2022, the distiller backed a bid to build a green freeport in the Cromarty Firth near their Dalmore and Invergordon distilleries.[36]
In 2024, a biomass boiler was installed to power the Jura distillery on the island.[37]
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