Distilling Industry in Scotland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Details:
- Author(s) Weir, Ron
- Publication type Dissertation, PhD
- Year published 1974
- Publisher University of Edinburgh
- Place Published Edinburgh
Topics:
- Name Taxation inc customs, excise, stamp duties, etc: imposition & impact
- Name Innovation, diffusion & invention, inc technology & products
- Name Competition, collusion, monopoly & cartels inc competition policy & regulation
- Name Marketing inc brand & product development, distribution, etc
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of industries
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Library:
- Name Edinburgh University Library
- City Edinburgh
- County Lothian
- Country Scotland
- Postcode EH8 9LJ
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Notes:
Deals with the industry from the late 18th century when whisky became Scotland's most popular liquor to the decline of the industry just before 1914. Deals with the process of excise reform, 1780-1823; organisation; methods of production ; markets; role of agriculture; implications re the introduction of the coffey still; collusion, trade associations and the formation of the Distillers' Co Ltd and United Kingdom Distillers' Association; the establishment of blending, its marketing aspects and the firms of Arthur Bell & Sons Ltd, John Walker & Sons Ltd, John Dewar & Sons Ltd, and James Buchanan & Co Ltd