You’re helping this whisky company go even further, one bottle at a time

Meet David Stirk, a whisky aficionado, author and dedicated business owner. After graduating with an Honors Business Degree, David went on to work in a few different whisky companies, and even wrote a book called ‘The Distilleries of Campbeltown’. However, despite loving the industry he was in, David found himself yearning to take control of the business and make his own choices.

In 2004, the opportunity arose to buy a fantastic cask of whisky, and it gave David the spark to start his own whisky bottling business, The Creative Whisky Company. Based in the beautiful Lowlands of Scotland, his business has gone from bottling 15 casks a year, to doing seven times that amount today. As with any growing business, things can change over the years, however at The Creative Whisky Company, one procedure has remained: every cask they bottle is ‘nosed and tasted’ by David and his business partner.

The whisky industry is a large and competitive market. To invest in more stock and continue growing, David and his team have borrowed more than £390,000 from Funding Circle investors since April 2017. ‘I’d been in an eight month period of waiting for a mortgage to come through on the buildings that we bought. I just thought, it’s time to try another avenue, so that’s when I went to Funding Circle and I was amazed with the speed and the honesty. Everything they said would happen, happened.’ said David.

In this short video, meet David and hear more about his passion for the whisky industry:

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