Scotch Whiskey export on its ten-year peak

Scotch Whiskey export broke its ten-year peak, largely due to the sales increase in the emerging countries.

According to the datas of the Scottish Association of Whisky Manufacturers; between January and June 1.47 billion fontsterlings (2.37 billion dollars) value whisky was sold in abroad, 17 percent more than a year earlier.
In South Korea, sales increased by 69 percent, in China by 66 and in India by 44 percent.

Among the developed countries, in the United States sales increased by 34 percent, to 233.7 million fontsterlings. But the demand also grew in France, Spain, and in Germany.

The Scotch Whisky gives the quarter of the United Kingdom's total food and alcoholic beverages export and 80 percent of the Scottish export – reports MTI.