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A thoroughly researched and definitive history of a major company in a major industry by the expert in the field. The author has penetrated the "tartan curtain" to uncover a great deal of new material on the Scotch whisky industry, such as DCL's organization of bootlegging during American prohibition. But as well as chronicling DCL's potable activities and the development of its chemical activities, he relates his findings to a wide range of issues of current interest in business history, such as diversification, acquisition, and size.
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Description: Contracts, agreements and correspondence from Seagram's business dealings with the Distillers Company Ltd., a Scottish distillery company from which they imported brands of whiskey. Also includes shipment information and sales figures for various brands of whiskey.
The Worshipful Company of Distillers was established in 1638. The author recounts the origins of the distilling industry, the early difficulties in founding a Livery Company, interrupted by the Civil War, and its subsequent rise to prominence when gin became the Londonersâe(tm) favourite drink. Always closely bound up with the commercial distilling industry, the Company has survived through more than three centuries of involvement in the civic life of the City of London and, unlike many other Livery Companies, the close association with its trade still survives today.