SCOTCH ASSOCIATION APPEALS CANADIAN GLEN BRETON RULING
June 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL and MONICA DOBIE
THE SCOTCH Whisky Association (SWA) has announced it plans to appeal a Canadian court ruling allowing a Nova Scotia distillery to call its product 'Glen Breton'. The SWA is petitioning the Supreme Court of Canada to overturn a the Canadian Court of Appeal decision allowing Glenora Distillers, in Cape Breton, on Canada's Atlantic coast, to use 'Glen' in the name of its single malt whisky. The SWA has claimed this could fool consumers into thinking their product was made in Scotland or is Scotch whisky, and so should not be a ...
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