Glen Keith distillery, a Speyside single malt Scotch whisky distillery, was built by Chivas Brothers and has been owned by the Pernod Ricard group since 2001. 

Located near the historic Strathisla Distillery, Glen Keith opened in 1958, marking the first new distillery in Speyside since the 1898 whisky crash, contrasting with Strathisla, one of Scotland’s oldest distilleries. Construction on the site of an old meal-mill began in 1957 and was completed in 1960 with three stills intended for triple distillation. In 1970, the distillery switched to double distillation and added two more stills, incorporating Scotland’s first gas-fired stills and later installing steam coils. 

Initially, Glen Keith’s output was used in blends like Chivas Regal, Passport, and 100 Pipers, and the distillery also served as a testing ground for production innovations, such as developing proprietary yeast strains. In the 1990s, Glen Keith released an official bottling, Glen Keith 1983, followed by a 10-year-old single malt and two peated malts, Glenisla and Craigduff. Mothballed in 1999, the distillery underwent extensive reconstruction and reopened in June 2013, with an annual production target of six million litres of spirit, primarily for use in blended whiskies destined for export.