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Who Owns Bruichladdich?

The Bruichladdich Distillery is now a private company, once again.

It is not everyday that one buys a distillery.  Most change hands in big corporate takeovers, mergers and acquisitions  perhaps intentionally precluding any small purchasers.  The distillery had been closed down in 1993, being 'surplus' to the requirements' of Jim Beam Brands.

After 10 years of dogged persistence, on 19th December 2000 , the distillery and all it’s maturing of casks - 7000 casks - some dating back to 1964 - were purchased by Mark Reynier and his two Murray McDavid colleagues Simon Coughlin  and Gordon Wright for £7.5m

The original 1881 company Bruichladdich Distillery Company Ltd was reformed, with Jim McEwan becoming a founder shareholder along with Andrew Gray.

An esoteric group of  35  carefully picked private shareholders provided the equity capital with almost half of it coming from Islay connections.  The Bank of Scotland provided the bank debt.

This is a genuinely 100% privately financed company, there are no corporations, cross shareholdings, venture capitalists etc. involved, because our goal is a long term one, and everyone involved understands this. We all hold the same belief in Bruichladdich’s future as the premium, hand made, natural Islay Single Malt.
 

This is a proudly independent and fiercely private Scottish company - incorporated, capitalised, financed and managed in Scotland.

We are proud that the distillery is once again in private hands for the first time since the death of William Harvey the founder in 1936.