Global appetite for haggis and whisky on the up
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Haggis exports in 2013 were worth £1.037 million, up from £683,000 in 2011, a rise of 51 per cent.
In the past four years the UK has exported £4.85m of haggis to 28 countries
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According to the figures from HMRC, Scotch whisky is also enjoying rising exports, with a 24 per cent increase between 2010 and 2013.
There were 1.3 billion bottles exported in 2013, worth £4.37 billion and enough to fill Edinburgh’s Royal Commonwealth Swimming Pool 145 times.
Exports of Scotch whisky are worth £135 a second to our growing economy and, along with haggis, contributed to a record year for the UK food chain which generated £103bn in 2013 and now employs one in eight people.
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Hide AdThe UK Environment Secretary Elizabeth Truss said: “Robert Burns called haggis the ‘great chieftain o’ the pudding-race’ and it’s wonderful that more than 200 years later, this delicious, wholesome dish is now being appreciated around the world.”
Scottish haggis brand Macsween sells more than a million units of haggis over the Burns period.