{"id":5801,"date":"2026-05-07T22:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=5801"},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:30:18","slug":"ex-edrington-chief-leads-english-distillerys-plans-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=5801","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Edrington chief leads English distillery&#8217;s plans \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <\/p>\n<p>Mark Riley: English revolution<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mark Riley, who has spent 30 years in the whisky industry across three continents, has been hired to head a fast-growing distillery close to Stonehenge in southern England.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Witchmark Distillery, founded in 2022 and now one of England\u2019s largest and most sustainable whisky distilleries, is housed in a 17th-century Wiltshire barn etched with protective medieval witch marks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mr Riley spent a decade as managing director at Edrington, whose brands include The Macallan and Highland Park. His career also includes senior roles at Diageo, Beam Inc and Maxxium UK. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He now leads Witchmark\u2019s ambitions to become one of England\u2019s leading whisky producers. It filled its first casks in 2024, laying the foundation for single malts set to debut in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cAfter nearly three decades working across the great whisky traditions of Scotland, Japan and America, joining the English whisky revolution feels both energising and deeply meaningful,\u201d said Mr Riley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In its first year of trading, Witchmark secured an impressive range of listings spanning premium retail, regional pub groups and high-end cocktail bars. It is also the official spirits supplier to Bath Rugby.<\/p>\n<p>           \t            #ExEdrington #chief #leads #English #distillerys #plans #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Riley: English revolution Mark Riley, who has spent 30 years in the whisky industry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[272,697,306,11368,11364,4968,11367,1785,11365,2754,11366],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}