a spokesman for the Scotch Whisky Association. This is hardly trivial. Scottish whisky accounts for a fifth of the UK’s entire food and drink exports. And the overseas market, as Grieve explains ...
Scotland’s whisky trade is vital to the UK economy, creating 66,000 jobs and bringing in £7.1 billion (€8.5 billion) to the British economy, according to the Scotch Whisky Association.