Strathisla Distillery

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.