The Top 5 Best Selling Brands of Scotch Whisky Worldwide

 

 

The Top 5 Best Selling Brands of Scotch Whisky Worldwide

	Brand	Company Name Headquarters	Sales 2010	Percent Change
1	Johnnie Walker	Diageo London, UK	15.90 million cases	+9.7%
2	Ballantine's	Pernod Ricard Paris, France	6.18 million cases	+ 7.3%
3	Grant's	Diageo London, UK	5.9 million cases	+ 4.3%
4	J&B Rare	William Grant & Sons North Lanarkshire, Scotland	4.9 million cases	N/C
5	Chivas Regal	Pernod Ricard Paris, France	4.5 million cases	+ 16.3%

500 years

 

Whisky has been produced in Scotland for over 500 years. 

109 distilleries

There are now over 102 working malt distilleries in Scotland and 7 grain distilleries. 

3 years

For a whisky to be labelled Scotch Whisky it has to be produced and matured in Scotland for a minimum of three years. 

Big 4

Diageo, Pernod Ricard, William Grant & Son and the Edrington Group. These four companies own 62% of the distillation capacity for malt whisky and 85% of the distillation capacity for grain whisky. 

Top 5 UK

1. Bell's (Diageo)

2. The Famous Grouse (Edrington)

3. High Commissioner (Glen Catrine Bonded Warehouse)

4. William Grant's (William Grant & Sons)

5. Teacher's (Beam Global)