Scotch distillery ownership over time
How Scotland's distilleries consolidated into a handful of corporate groups.
Top — lineage: the ancestry of each surviving giant (e.g. Diageo back through United
Distillers, Guinness, DCL). Bottom — consolidation: every distillery placed at the year
it entered its present-day owner. Built from distilleries.json.
Corporate lineage — how today's groups were built
Each lane is a surviving group; the nodes are the companies that merged into it, oldest at left. ▲ = formed/merged · ● = an acquisition. Hover a node for detail.
Ownership consolidation
One row per present-day owner (largest first; small/family owners pooled into "Independents"). Each dot is a distillery at the year it entered that group — hollow = a now-closed distillery, ringed = new/craft. Filter by region: