Ian Macleod cuts production amid muted whisky outlook

Dean Best

Tue, June 30, 2026 astatine 9:12 AM CDT 1 min read

Ian Macleod Distillers has revealed it chopped accumulation astatine 2 distilleries by 30% owed to the muted outlook for Scotch.

In a filing with Companies House, the UK concern register, the institution said it had lowered yearly accumulation astatine its Glengoyne and Rosebank sites "on relationship of the little guardant request outlook".

The distiller said yearly accumulation astatine its Tamdhu tract "remained astatine caller output levels" owed to the timing of "significant onsite engineering works" successful caller years.

It added: "The broader inclination is that Tamdhu's output illustration volition reflector that of the different 2 distilleries."

The comments came alongside the merchandise of Ian Macleod Distillers' accounts for the twelvemonth to the extremity of September 2025.

Turnover stood astatine £118m, down from £128.3m a twelvemonth earlier.

Operating nett dropped from £22.3m to £16.8m, portion nett attributable to members of the institution much than halved from £11.6m to £5.5m.

Ian Macleod Distillers said "cased turnover grew modestly" but turnover from bulk whisky "continued to trim astatine a significant, double-digit rate".

"Cased turnover request for radical products successful Europe and Asia continued to diminution whilst successful the United Kingdom the simplification was mild. Positively, cased turnover grew successful North America," the institution reported.

Ian Macleod Distillers said its bulk concern was deed by "ongoing little demand" from UK-based manufacture buyers for azygous casks, young atom and older blended malt whisky.

It added: "These effects were experienced by astir rival businesses crossed the sector."

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