{"id":2079,"date":"2026-05-07T22:35:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:35:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:35:42","slug":"ex-edrington-chief-leads-english-distillerys-plans-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/?p=2079","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Edrington chief leads English distillery&#8217;s plans \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Mark-Riley.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-194918 lazyload\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"537\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Mark-Riley.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-194918 lazyload\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Mark-Riley.png 794w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Mark-Riley-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Mark-Riley-768x519.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Mark-Riley-600x406.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Mark Riley: English revolution<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\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><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.3) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#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 across three continents, has been hired to head a fast-growing distillery close to Stonehenge in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[283,1244,282,3758,3753,3757,3756,1832,3754,649,3755],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-stories","tag-business","tag-chief","tag-daily","tag-distillerys","tag-edrington","tag-english","tag-exedrington","tag-leads","tag-mark-riley","tag-plans","tag-witchmark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gw.adampg777.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}