French luxury goods group Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH) has announced a £45 million pound investment in it's distilling operations - whisky ones that is.

The owners of The Glenmorangie Company also own over 50 luxury brands including Dior, is to sell their  33-acre Broxburn bottling facility to Diageo (having withdraw from blended Scotch whisky) and are to sell the Glen Moray Distillery at Elgin possibly to Whyte & Mackay

The £45 million will be spent on a new bottling facility, an increase in distilling capacity at Glenmorangie, the relocation of headquarters to Edinburgh, and new cask warehouses at Ardbeg - as well as another restyling of the visitor centre.

Good to see that the warehouses are going to be done up - more Islay maturation. I do hope they will use the sad, old, derelict sites - these always reminds me of the hopeless old Allied days. I rather liked the current visitor centre which was done up in the £3m upgrade in 1996  You can bet your bottom dollar that all that  LVMH chic style and experience will be brought to bare and it should look magnificent. Odd how after a century of total non-investment two mind-boggling sums are spent on it in a decade. 

Bet they won't have an internal water feature like ours.