From Stuart Nickerson at Glenglassaugh Distillery;

I have designated this week as North American week because we have appointed an importer for Alberta and BC in Canada, who are Purple Valley Imports.  I have been working with Jonathan this week to make sure that he has all the necessary information to get our products listed in these provinces. As Jonathan also imports into the USA then we will be working with him in the USA too, which is a major breakthrough for us and one for celebration.  It will be a few months before we manage to get all of the appropriate authorisation and get product shipped across but at least the process has started and all of you who live in the USA should start to see Glenglassaugh appearing shortly.

However that is not all as we have also identified a route where we will be able to assist anyone from USA who purchases an octave cask of getting their bottles into the USA using an importer who will help us design and submit labels for approval at federal and state level and then import into the country and ship through distributors to retailers for pick-up or in some states ship direct to consumers. This means that we can now sell with confidence to USA customers and indeed this week also saw the first octave cask sale outside Europe and it was to the USA.

I can also reveal though that following fast behind an inaugural USA sale we sold 2 octaves to Japan so we are truly becoming global.

Slange

Stuart

http://www.glenglassaugh.com/

Details and contact for Purple Valley Imports can be found at http://www.purplevalleyimports.com/