19-05-2025
Global spirits company invests £7m in Airdrie expansion
International Beverage completed the construction of six new bonded warehouses at the site on Monday, May 19.
The warehouses form part of a wider plan for increased storage and upgraded logistics to further the company's long-term global growth plans.
With this investment, the firm aims to support its premium spirits portfolio, which features Old Pulteney, Speyburn, Balblair, and anCnoc single malt whiskies.
(Left to right) Malcolm Leask from International Beverage + Ian McDonnell from The Malcolm Group (Image: Supplied) The 15-month project was managed in collaboration with The Malcolm Group – a key provider of logistics, construction, and maintenance services in the UK.
The newly built facility can accommodate 60,000 casks, increasing Airdrie's total warehousing capacity to a substantial 700,000 casks, and providing much-needed maturation space for spirit from International Beverage's five distilleries in Scotland.
Malcolm Leask, managing director at International Beverage, said: "The completion of this new warehousing is another major step forward for our business, following a busy period of acquisitions and new additions to our spirits portfolio.
"We now have some of the industry's most modern, high-quality bottling and storage facilities at our Scottish headquarters, allowing us to manage stocks of our premium Scotch whiskies with greater efficiency and scale."
The state-of-the-art warehouses have each been constructed measuring 900 m2 and built to the highest specification, using steel portal frame fabrication.
They also include a full water drainage system and high-tech CCTV and alarm systems.
Mr Leask added: "Whilst current trading conditions in our industry are challenging, whisky is a resilient sector and I'm very proud to be building for the future - and to see the ongoing evolution of our Airdrie site as a thriving hub at the heart of our global business."
Ian McDonnell, senior project manager of Construction Division at The Malcolm Group, said: "The spec and quality we have delivered for these warehouses is at the forefront of what's possible in the Scotch whisky industry and we're very pleased to have played our part in ensuring the continued production of high-quality spirits for International Beverage."
