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Some of this is old news, some is new news.

The name Duncan Frew might sound familiar. He recently worked for Tennents as their Commercial and Marketing Director. We know Sam did commercials for Tennents years ago with Tim Downie. Well, Duncan has stepped away from Tennents. He has a business called Lucky Lion which you’ll find at the bottom of the FMN Gin website. That much most of us knew. I also added a link to his name above for your perusal of dates and businesses associated with him.

What might be newer is a brand new company called 8833. Also run by Duncan Frew. Duncan was appointed director on August 20, 2020. The pages first post was on October 21, 2020, in time for the gin release. So far Cait’s FMN Gin and a page associated with Tennent’s are part of their business.

Whom do they follow, amongst others?

Again, some of this is old, some is new, but for those trying to keep up with the connections that are not coincidental, here you go.

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We were talking, me and my husband* and a friend** of his who's in the hospitality and drinks business, and we were talking about the Arts and how it's been so underfunded here, abroad, everywhere l travelled. Governments are slashing support for the Arts left, right, and centre, and we were talking about "what if we did something where we could use a percentage of the profits to give back, and that the whole ethos of the brand would be that it's about getting artists to help?" We would fund them, we would support them, and in their turn we could have artists use their art and promote it.

We were just riffing and we were "let's try one batch and see what happens." We did something like 2000 bottles and it sold within a day, and were were "that's kind of cool, let's go and do more of this." And when we did that, were were able to take the order, ship it, get it to anywhere in Europe within two days. And then Brexit happened, and it was like, "well you can't do that." And then to ship to the U.S. there's a lot of complicated loopholes because there's a very strange system in the U.S. that still exists since prohibition. And then I got pregnant, so you can't really be flogging booze when you're pregnant, so we just put a pause on everything. And we're about to launch... well, I don't want to give a time because there's still stuff we're sorting out, but we're going again. It's coming soon. Forget Me Not is not (forgotten). — Caitríona Balfe, April 2023

FMN DRINKS (UK) LIMITED, incorporated 14 December 2022. Directors: Caitríona Mary Balfe, Duncan Glen Frew**, Anthony Gerard McGill*

Brian 11 April 2023