Clynelish employees to distribute free hand sanitisers
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Diageo employees across Scotland – including those at Clynelish Distillery in Brora – will this week begin distribution of more than 55,000 bottles of free hand sanitiser to communities where the company has distilleries and operations.
Working in partnership with local authorities and community organisations, Diageo’s people across its network of sites around the country will distribute the Diageo produced hand sanitiser to where it is most needed in local communities, targeting care homes, care in the community staff and people volunteering to help the vulnerable.
All the brand home distilleries outside of Speyside and Islay, will get three pallets (1944 bottles) to distribute.
The areas to benefit from the distribution include the rural areas where Diageo has distilleries in the Highlands and Islands.
The 500ml bottles of hand sanitiser are being made to World Health Organisation formulation, with the liquid developed by a team at the company’s technical laboratories in Menstrie, Clackmannanshire, and production and packaging undertaken by staff at the Leven packaging plant in Fife.
The direct local production of the batch of hand sanitiser for communities in Scotland is in addition to an earlier global initiative by Diageo which has seen 500,000 litres of alcohol donated to be manufactured into hand sanitiser for the NHS across the UK and Ireland, with the global total now exceeding five million litres of spirit donated.
