As the campaign continues to save 700 jobs at the Johnnie Walker bottling plant in Kilmarnock and 200 at the Port Dundas distillery, here is the SNP’s man in the Bahamas doing some promotion for another whisky, Suntory. Or perhaps that’s "whiskey", I’m not sure if the Japanese version of the tipple is spelt with an “e” at the end or not...
(From Bill Cameron via D Wildgoose).
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Connery has been advertising that for years so nothing new there.
Anyway, Suntory has a major stake in the Scotch Whisky. They own Morrison Bowmore and through that the Glen Garioch distillery in Aberdeenshire, Auchentoshen in Clydebank and Bowmore on Islay. It therefore owns not only the malts produced by these disitlleries but also there blended brands as well and have done so also for many years.
The second largest distilling company in Japan, Nikka, owns Ben Nevis distillery. The guy who founded Nikka trained in the Scotch Whisky industry, studied at Glasgow University and married a Scottish girl whom he took back to Japan. He founded the first proper Japanese Scotch-whisky style distillery on Hokkaido island and the town where it is (and company hq) has a Scottish pipe band.
And of course Tomatin distillery is owned by a conglomerate of Japanese companies.
In turn the Kirin brewing company in Japan was founded by an Aberdonian. Kirin is in merger talks with Suntory so this will enforce the Scottish connection.
Anyway, I remember a patriotic Dutch actor flogging a certain Irish beer back in the 80's and 90's rather than Heineken.
I got emailed something along the same lines but they said the advert was from 1992, is he still doing the advert?
Point taken about Suntory's investment in Scottish whisky but which brand is Sean drinking in the advert?
I heard the advert gets repeated regularly although I think his "acting" roles in advertising are over. He still does advertising via pictures for some clothes range apparently as you can see him promoting them in the Economist.
I remember at the beginning of the decade he was promoting some Scotch whisky abroad with flashbacks to his previous roles involved according to the newspapers. Was it Whyte and MacKay or Glenmorangie. Cannot remember.
Connery is promoting Suntory for a Japanese market. Just as Hauer promoted Irish beer for a UK (or even wider) market. Why not Heineken or Amstel? See he returned for a one-off advert in 2004.
(I am more a Gulpener person myself)
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