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1950
Seagram Company of Canada purchase Distillery at Public Auction and transfer it to Chivas Brothers Ltd, a newly acquired Seagram subsidiary
1942
Distillery issued share capital 35,000 shares of 10s. each and held a stock of 177,000 gallons of whisky. A shareholder, R.J. Cumming and associates bought 34,475 shares and the company was sold through various parties to Jay Pomeroy
1882
William Longmore who had taken over the distillery in 1830, died aged 76, distillery passed to J. Geddes-Brown
1880
William Longmore Ltd. the first distillery to be incorporated. J. Geddes-Brown appointed managing partner, he was the son-in-law of William Longmore
1830
Transferred to William Longmore & Co. William Longmore was a banker and grain merchant
1828
Milton Distillery sold at public auction to John McDonald & Co. who owned a saddler’s business in Keith
1825
McDonald Ingram & Company
1786
Distillery legally established as Milltown Distillery by George Taylor and Alexander Milne under the name of the Keith Distillery Co.