From broker to bottler in Huntly
Abe Rosenberg, who had run J&B's imports into the USA, had bought the firm and its malt stocks; after his death in the 1990s, his children approached Shand.1,2,3
Peated
Duncan Taylor began in Glasgow in 1938 as a cask broker and trading company, and over the decades it had its own casks filled at distilleries across Scotland.1,2,3 In 2001 Euan Shand, who had worked at Teacher's and founded the Bennachie Whisky Company, bought it and based it in Huntly as an independent bottler.1,2,3 Shawn Smith took control in 2020, and Shand retired as chairman in April 2024.1,4,5