Tullamore DEW Returns Home With €35m Investment

17th September 2014

The art of whiskey distillation returns to Tullamore today for the first time in 60 years, as a €35m distillery at Tullamore DEW is launched.

Tullamore DEW production returns a pot still and malt distillery on a 58- acre site near Clonminch, Tullamore, Co Offaly for the first time since 1954.

The state of the art plant is capable of producing 1.84 million litres or 1.5 million cases of whiskey a year and 200 jobs were created during construction phase.

Tullamore DEW's parent company, William Grant & Sons, invested heavily in the brand and since 2005 has almost doubled its worldwide sales to 850,000 cases.

The distillery will include two warehouses that hold 55,000 casks of whiskey and 14km of piping to bring water into the distillery.

William Grant & Sons, an independent, family-owned Scottish company, employs more than 90 people in Ireland – in Tullamore, Clonmel and Dublin.