A former brewery, Glen Moray was converted into a distillery in 1897 - at the beginning of a difficult time for the Scotch industry. The poor financial outlook for distilleries in the wake of the Pattison crash and increases in duty in the first decade of the new century dealt a fatal blow to the finances of the Glen Moray Glenlivet Distillery Company, and the distillery was closed for most of the period 1910-1923, when it re-opened under the control of Macdonald & Muir, owners of Glenmorangie, who had purchased it three years previously.
