Whiskey brands owner PPI set to spend €22m on new bonded warehouse

The projected premises, in Dundalk, is scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2022 and could be followed by a new distillery in this country

Hendrick Melle and Stefan Hansen, co-founders of Private Pier Industries, which is planning to spend €22 million on opening a second bonded warehouse in Dundalk and doubling the capacity of its whiskey bottling line

Private Pier Industries (PPI), the Berlin-based company behind the Grace O’Malley and Proclamation whiskey brands, is planning to spend €22 million on opening a second bonded warehouse in Dundalk and doubling the capacity of its whiskey bottling line.

The German firm, which also operates a premium pet food brand called Irish Pure that is contract-manufactured in Ireland but sold in European markets, said it may build or buy its own whiskey distillery in the years ...