Edrington has announced group profits before tax was up 3% to £174.0m and turnover up 3% to £607.7m, for the year ended 31 March. 
  

Diageo has completed its tender offer for a further 26% share in United Spirits. 

The 86 Company has launched a portfolio of four bartender-focused spirits in the UK. 

William Grant & Sons is rolling out the second release from the Kininvie Distillery, Kininvie 23 Year Old Batch Number Two. 
  

Bushmills master blender Helen Mulholland has created two single malt whiskies for Bushmills Live headliners- The 1975 and Gary Lightbody’s group Tired Pony. 

Highland Park has launched a core expression inspired by founder and distiller Magnus Eunson. 

Gonzalez Byass, the major sherry producer, has unveiled a new whisky which, it claims, is a first and could represent the beginning of a new spirits category.

Emporia Brands unveiled a Polugar range at Imbibe Live yesterday, the first time the product has been available in the UK for more than 120 years.

Emporia Brands’ Ron Prohibido- ‘The Forbidden Rum’- launched in the UK for the first time at Imbibe Live yesterday. 
  

Spirits experts Gaz Regan, Dave Broom and Philip Duff have recreated what they believe to be one of the earliest gin recipes on record.

Bacardi Limited has announced the internal appointments of two new regional presidents.

Sitting in a hotel in Taiwan watching an American in a Scottish kilt playing the bag pipes while a woman dressed in Spanish dress dances flamenco, makes you realise the world is increasingly becoming a smaller place and things you take for granted, well, you shouldn't.

The Auchentoshan Switch, a cocktail competition that offers two bartenders transatlantic internships has announced Mr Fogg’s, London, will host the UK leg.