It produces Chivas Regal, Ballantine's Beefeater Gin, The Glenlivet, Royal Salute, Aberlour, Scapa, and 100 Pipers.

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Paisley-based Chivas Brother's portfolio includes Chivas Regal, Ballantine's, Beefeater Gin, The Glenlivet and Royal Salute.

BBC: Christian Porta

Royal Salute sales grew by 23% in value, with The Glenlivet and Chivas recording 19% and 11% rises respectively.

BBC: Pernod Ricard boosted by booming whisky sales

Argentina's star Facundo Pieres, for instance, is an ambassador for whisky brand Royal Salute, sponsor of the World Polo Series.

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The Queen will take a royal salute at Portsmouth as she bids farewell to the Royal Navy's aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.

BBC: Queen bids farewell to carrier Ark Royal

In addition to the gun salute from the Royal Citadel, a lone piper played on the bridge as HMS Montrose entered the naval base.

BBC: HMS Montrose returns after south Atlantic deployment

In May 1987 he was given the Cyril Bennett Award by the Royal Television Society as a personal salute from the television profession, with judges describing him as a man who always dared and pushed out boundaries.

BBC: Obituary: Alasdair Milne