DECADES of foreign incursion have turned the Scotch whisky industry into a fiefdom of the major conglomerates, according to the heir to one of Scotland's last independent spirits dynasties.
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Who owns our whisky?
Diageo is cutting 900 jobs at Kilmarnock and elsewhere, and Indian-owned Whyte & Mackay is axing 100 more. But does it matter that conglomerates and firms outside Scotland own most of the whisky industry? Chris Watt has been finding out
