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Gin Festival Worth £500k To Scottish Distillers

The second Scottish Gin Festival has been launched, in time to take advantage of the upcoming festive season. Scottish distillers throughout the country will benefit from a combined business deal worth £500,000. Eight artisan producers will bring more than nine different gins to Lidl’s 95 Scottish stores. The Festival follows a hugely popular initial spring promotion, which sold at a rate of more than 130 bottles per hour in the first week of sales.
http://www.businessforscotland.com/gin-festival-worth-500k-to-scottish-distillers/

Brexit Concerns Over Scotland's Seed Potatoes

Scotland produces 80% of the UK’s seed potatoes. It’s an excellent industry with many years of expertise producing a quality product where 13.5% of its sales are to the EU.... (Brexit) means that seed potatoes from Scotland will lose their EU market – they will not be allowed to sell their products in the EU as they did before. They will have to rely on sales within the UK to make up this loss.  BUT to make matters worse  EU countries will be able to export their seed potatoes without hindrance onto the UK market.
https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/11/10/brexit-concerns-raised-over-scotlands-successful-seed-potato-sector/

The UK Fisheries Bill

"The Bill certainly uses the word ‘opportunities’ a lot especially in the place of the word ‘quotas’. Control over quotas, sorry opportunities, will be with the UK Government in London. Management of fisheries will ‘normally’ be with the devolved administrations which means that can also be controlled by the UK Government in London. The whole shebang will cost unknown amounts of money to set up and administer. And we still have to sell the fish."
https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/10/26/seizing-opportunities-the-uk-fisheries-bill/

Scotch Whisky Exports Grow To Almost £2bn

Scotch Whisky exports rose to almost £2 billion in the first half of the year. Exports increased in value by 10.8% to £1.97 billion, compared with the same period in 2017. Analysis of official HMRC figures published by the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) also shows the volume of exports increased by 5.6% to almost 558 million bottles. Exports to emerging markets continued to grow, with a 34.8% increase in the value of Scotch Whisky going to China, and a 44.4% increase to India. The US remains the largest export market by value at over £400 million, with France largest by volume at almost 90 million bottles. The European Union remains the biggest regional destination, accounting for 39% of the volume of Scotch Whisky exports and 31% of their value.’
https://thoughtcontrolscotland.com/2018/10/20/another-case-%F0%9F%98%8A-in-the-real-story-of-scotlands-economy-scotch-whisky-exports-grow-to-almost-2bn/