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Henry William Brands Jr. (born August 7, 1953) is an American historian. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his PhD in history in 1985. He has authored more than thirty books on U.S. history. His works have twice been selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. [1] [2] [3]
William Grant & Sons and the Edrington Group took Highland Distillers private in 1999 [47] forming the 1887 Company, in which William Grant and Sons hold a 30% stake. Brands owned by Highland Distillers at that time: Black Bottle, this brand was sold subsequently to Burn Stewart Distillers in 2004; Gloag's London Dry Gin, brand name owned by ...
William Grant (19 December 1839 – 1923) was a Scottish distiller and entrepreneur who founded William Grant & Sons, the manufacturer of Glenfiddich, as such, the first company in the world to market a true single malt whisky and a leading brand today.
The series expanded in 1953 to include world history as a sub-series called World Landmark Books, and a second sub-series of larger-format books illustrated with color artwork or black and white photographs was introduced in the 1960s as Landmark Giant, which would continue releasing new titles beyond the end of the main series until 1974 ...
Alexander Grant "Sandy" Gordon, CBE (6 May 1931 – 21 December 2020) was a Scottish distiller who was credited with creating a global market for single malt Scotch whisky. [1] As a managing director of the William Grant and Sons Glenfiddich distillery between 1968 and 1996, he is credited with global market success of the Glenfiddich brand.
Pages in category "William Grant & Sons" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Analysis of Grant's presidency by some modern scholars, including Grant biographers Jean Edward Smith (2001), H. W. Brands (2012), Ron Chernow (2017), and Charles W. Calhoun (2017), have generally been more positive about Grant's presidency. Encyclopedic presidential summary biographies of Grant rely heavily on secondary sources and tend to ...
The reason for William Grant & Sons building the distillery was because of a quarrel between the Grant family and the Distillers Company Limited (DCL). Under the close eye of Charles Grant Gordon, the Girvan distillery was built and producing alcohol within nine months of ground break. Girvan contributes for Grant's and Clan MacGregor blended ...