A new £10 million funding package will allow Scottish food and drink companies to upgrade facilities and is expected to generate additional investment of up to £52 million.

Announced by food secretary Richard Lochhead, the funding is the latest round of the Food Processing, Marketing and Co-operation (FPMC) scheme. Over three years, it will help businesses throughout Scotland improve, extend or build new facilities.

The grants announced are:

• Macsween of Edinburgh – up to £114,534 for new equipment to expand production
• Drimnin Distillery, Highland – up to £513,322 towards building a new distillery
• KIC Holdings/Morrison & Mackay, Perth and Kinross – up to £433,689 for a new distillery
• Harviestoun Brewery, Clackmannanshire – up to £25,408 for a kegging and bottling unit
• Roddenloft Brewery, East Ayrshire – up to £10,484 towards the cost of a new warehouse.

Lochhead says, “This £10 million funding over three years is expected to generate additional investment of almost £52 million into our food and drink sector and builds on the achievements of our last funding programme.

“It supported more than 170 projects between 2007 and 2013, with our £47 million investment levering in £114 million of private sector funding and safeguarding or creating about 8,500 jobs. I look forward to seeing similar success this time round as we journey to becoming a good food nation.”