Worldwide Beverage completes development of
six new warehouses at Scottish headquarters
£7 million funding boosts cask storage capability for future progress plans
World spirits enterprise Worldwide Beverage has concluded a significant enlargement programme at its headquarters in Airdrie, finishing the construct of six new state-of-the-art bonded warehouses on the website.
Representing a £7 million funding, the brand new warehouses are a part of an improve of storage and logistics capabilities throughout the enterprise, supporting the corporate’s long run international progress plans for its premium spirits portfolio, which incorporates Previous Pulteney, Speyburn, Balblair and anCnoc single malt whiskies and Hankey Bannister blended Scotch whisky.
The 15-month undertaking was managed in partnership with The Malcolm Group, one of many UK’s main suppliers of logistics, development and upkeep companies. The brand new facility can home 60,000 casks, taking the Airdrie website’s warehousing capability to roughly 700,000 casks total, and offering much-needed additional maturation area for spirit from Worldwide Beverage’s 5 Scottish distilleries.
The brand new warehouses / Malcolm Leask from Worldwide Beverage + Ian McDonnell from The Malcolm Group
Positioned on the east aspect of the positioning, every warehouse measures 900 m2 and has been constructed to the best technical, manufacturing and security specification, utilizing metal portal body fabrication. The design additionally features a full floor water drainage system, plus high-tech CCTV and alarm methods.
Toasting the milestone, Worldwide Beverage Managing Director Malcolm Leask mentioned the funding signifies the corporate’s confidence in the way forward for its award-winning manufacturers, regardless of what has been a difficult few years for the Scotch whisky sector.
He commented: ‘The completion of this new warehousing is one other main step ahead for our enterprise following a busy interval of acquisitions and new additions to our spirits portfolio. We now have a number of the business’s most trendy, high-quality bottling and storage amenities at our Scottish headquarters, permitting us to handle shares of our premium Scotch whiskies with higher effectivity and scale. While present buying and selling situations in our business are difficult, whisky is a resilient sector and I’m very proud to be constructing for the longer term – and to see the continuing evolution of our Airdrie website as a thriving hub on the coronary heart of our international enterprise.’
Ian McDonnell, Senior Undertaking Supervisor, Building Division at The Malcolm Group added: ‘Our enterprise is understood for its experience in industrial tasks, and now we have introduced the very highest ranges of design, development and know-how to this new facility. The spec and high quality now we have delivered for these warehouses is on the forefront of what’s attainable within the Scotch whisky business and we’re more than happy to have performed our half in guaranteeing the continued manufacturing of high-quality spirits for Worldwide Beverage.’
About Worldwide Beverage
Worldwide Beverage is the worldwide arm of Thai Beverage Public Restricted Firm. The premium spirits firm’s portfolio is led by a variety of high-quality manufacturers together with Previous Pulteney single malt Scotch whisky, Hankey Bannister blended Scotch whisky, Caorunn Gin, PRAKAAN single malt whisky and Phraya Rum from Thailand, Larsen Cognac, and Cardrona spirits and liqueurs.
A licensed Nice Place to Work, Worldwide Beverage’s success is formed by its 700-strong crew primarily based throughout the enterprise’ community of 9 international websites spanning the UK, France, New Zealand, and Larger China following the corporate’s current acquisition of Asiaeuro Worldwide Beverage (AIB). For extra info, please go to www.interbevgroup.com/.
