Badachro Distillery toasts Exporter of the Year award acknowledging global reach from remote Wester Ross community
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A WESTER Ross distillery that started in a garden shed and now sells around the world is today toasting an Exporter of the Year Award.
Badachro Distillery won the accolade at the FSB Scotland Celebrating Small Business Awards after years devoted to building export sales.
Exports of its small-batch artisan whisky, gin and vodka account for a remarkable 40 per cent of sales to the likes of Canada, Bermuda, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Italy and Malta.India, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea are in the pipeline following a recent sales mission that managing director Gordon Quinn undertook.
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He said: "We put so much effort and resource into building our export sales and to have this recognised in this manner is just fantastic. We’re very chuffed, and feel very honoured!”
As he returned from a recent trip to India unwell, his son Sean, accepted the award on his behalf.
The Badachro Distillery, established in 2016, now employs a production, sales and marketing team of 10.
The Federation of Small Businesses’ Highlands & Islands development manager, David Richardson, said: “I’m absolutely delighted that the Badachro Distillery has won our FSB Scotland Exporter of the Year Award, for this is a business that I’ve watched grow and develop ever since it was established in 2016.
“Not only is the Badachro Distillery a great West Coast business and visitor attraction, the fact that its top quality products are being marketed and sold all over the world really does help to put Wester Ross and the Northern Highlands on the map, and that is to everyone’s advantage. It is exactly the sort of business that the Scottish Government and its agencies should be supporting.”
