Joint Managing Director of Gordon & MacPhail, David Urquhart, has been honoured by his industry peers with a lifetime achievement award for his services to the Scottish Licensed Trade.
Date:
Thu, 05 Jul 2012
Source:
Pagoda PR
David was presented with the accolade at the DRAM magazine Scottish Licensed Trade Awards 2012. ?
Established over fifteen years ago, the awards were the first in Scotland to recognise the very best of the Scottish on-trade industry.?Due to retire this autumn, David has dedicated 40 years to the work of Gordon & MacPhail, the whisky and licensed trade industry and various local community causes close to his heart, including the Elgin Bid and the Forres bid to host the European Pipe Band Championships.?He has been committed to continuing the work of his ancestors, who have been involved in Gordon & MacPhail since its first year of trading. ?
Established in 1895 as a family run grocers, tea, wine and spirit merchants in Elgin, the company has since grown into one of the UK?s top independent wine and spirits merchants, alongside its others business interests as a bottler and exporter of whiskies from throughout Scotland and a distiller, owning Benromach Distillery in Forres.?
Commenting on his award David said: ?I?m honoured to receive this award, which was a huge surprise for me. It?s come at a very timely point in my career as I prepare to retire and hand over the work that I have achieved, along with my fathers and grandfathers before me, to the next generation coming through in the business.?
?As a family we have grown Gordon & MacPhail to be one of the top independent wholesalers in the UK along with our growing worldwide recognition as experts in the Scotch Whisky industry. I?m proud to have been able to be part of this.?
?I?m confident I?ll be leaving my role in more than capable hands, and locally I hope to keep busy with the many community initiatives Elgin and Forres are involved in.??
Susan Young, Editor of the DRAM comments: "David Urquhart has spent the last 40 years serving the Scottish licensed trade, and helping to grow his family company, Gordon & MacPhail. His passion, commitment, determination, and above all, his integrity made David a very worthy recipient of the DRAM Lifetime Achievement Award.?
Gordon and MacPhail are the World?s Leading Malt Whisky Specialist, offering more than 450 presentations of own ? bottled single malts, aged from five to seventy years old and a stock holding of more than 800 whiskies.
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