Brothers Frank & Hugh Baird brewer/maltsters found Great Canal Brewery. Their vision to provide consistent high quality beer to the growing Glasgow population.

The malting business is expanded to supply other brewers. Hugh’s vision is to bring consistent high quality malt supply to brewers across the Glasgow region.

Hugh and Frank receive the Royal Warrant.

Hugh retires and hands over the mantel to sons Hugh(Jnr) & Montague. They follow their father’s vision via the 2 malting sites Port Dundas & Springbank in Glasgow .

Baird's Glasgow Maltings is extended to meet growing demand .

An additional floor maltings at Greenwich, London, becomes the 3rd malt production site, and the first outside of Glasgow.

A purchase of our Witham site which housed a floor maltings helps to meet increasing malt supply demands.

Up to 20 further floor malting sites across the UK are added to the business as demand for a quality malt product grows. Grain is traded through the local corn exchange.

New Storage silos with drying facilities were erected in 1951 on the Witham site.

Witham floor maltings were demolished to make way for the new Wanderhaufen mechanised malting plant.

Canada Malting acquires 50% stake in Hugh Bairds & Sons.

The business makes a purchase of a green field site in Pencaitland, Edinburgh, to build a pneumatic plant. The land is purchased from a local farmer whose family continue to supply quality Barley to Bairds to this day.

The business consolidates to 2 pneumatic malting sites at Pencaitland in Scotland & Witham in Essex, England.

Four industry professionals Hugo Page Croft, Klaus Perch Nielsen, Oliver Griffin and Michael Crowther come together with a common idea to build an innovative malting plant in the Scottish Highlands.

Moray Firth Malt Inverness site built but first load wasn't sold until the following year

On 11th June 1969, the Moray Firth Malting site was officially opened by Mr Jocelyn Hambro, Chairman of Hambros Bank, who were significant investors in the project.

Moray Firth Malting build their Arbroath site

Tate & Lyle buy Hugh Baird & Sons as a wholly owned subsidiary.

Turriff site built to provide barley storage capacity in the heart of Aberdeenshire.

Moray Firth Maltings bought Grantham site from Pauls Malt.

Canada Malting buys Great Western Malting and 60% of Hugh Bairds & sons.

The Beeston maltings were due to become vacant so Moray Firth took them over in January 1991.

Conagra Foods & Tiger Brand buy Canada Maltings and becomes part of ConAgra Malt.

Merger between Moray Firth Maltings and Hugh Baird & sons forms a malting business with 5 malting sites plus barley drying facility.

Approximately 143,000 tonnes of brewing malt and 20,500 tonnes of distilling malt was produced to meet demand in Scotland.

James Brown (owner of Octomore Farm) piping in the first load of Octomore malt into Bruichladdich Distillery from Inverness Maltings.

Castle Harlan buys Conagra Malt which includes Great Western Malting, Canada Malting, Barrett Burston Malting & 60% of Bairds Malt Ltd to create United Malt Holdings (UMH).

Castle Harlan buys last 40% of Bairds Malt Ltd from Scottish & Newcastle.

Graincorp buys United Malt Holdings from Castle Harlan.

Bairds adds an additional new malting plant in Arbroath. Offering 57,000mt additional capacity for the distilling market.

Bairds launches Brewers Select in the UK. A one stop shop offering malt and brewing supplies directly to the UK's craft brewing market.

Bairds Malt announces Project Angel that includes the refurbishment of the clova plant in Arbroath and a new state of the art malt facility in Inverness.

Ground broken in Inverness.

Arbroath Clova plant refurbishment complete.

Bairds Malt complete "Project Angel" adding an additional 57,000 tonnes of capacity.