[masadaman]

Bushmill’s is from Northern Ireland, not the Middleton facility in Cork. Middleton produces excellent whiskeys including Jameson’s, Powers’ Three Swallows and Red Breast. They co-pack for many of the dozens of new brands on the market although at last count there are over two dozen new distilleries in some form of development. Middleton née Irish Distillers is owned by the French major Pernod Ricard

Bushmill’s is a much smaller operation but was purchased by the Beckmann Group from Mexico which we know as Cuervo. It is distributed by their subsidiary Proximo which also owns and distributes Shanahan’s Whiskey, distilled in Colorado.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

When I was there in 2000, Bushmills was owned by Midleton. I guess they must have sold it off.

What they said on the tour was that at sometime in the past (maybe the 70's) there was a crash in the whisky market (maybe everyone was drinking martinis). In any case the whisky distillers all got together to join forces.

Now that whisky is the IN thing, I guess the distilleries are being bought and sold like casino chips.