Campbell & Clark

Modest sized blender and bottler originally based out of Glasgow as part of Train & McIntyre.

Campbell & Clark was originally founded in 1934 as a blending and bottling subsidiary of Train & McIntyre Ltd., which went on to own several distilleries including Glenury Royal, Glenlochy, Fettercairn and Benromach. The company established Colin Forbes Ross & Co. as an independent bottling subsidiary in 1953, but following World War II, Train & McIntyre’s owner, National Distillers, began selling off its Scottish assets. In 1960 Campbell & Clark was sold to George Christie’s Speyside Distillery Company, which was formed to build Speyside distillery near Kingussie, with America’s Sazerac Company Inc of New Orleans acquiring a 50% share the following year. Christie created a second bottling company, Douglas Murdoch & Co., in 1970, though by 1983 both it and Colin Forbes Ross & Co had become dormant for trading purposes. Their brands were still marketed however. In 1989 Christie bought Sazerac out of its 50% share to assume complete control of the operations. The Speyside Distillery Company was sold to a private investment group headed by Christie’s son, Ricky, in 2000. Campbell & Clark was eventually dissolved in 2010.