FRANCE: Militant Languedoc winegrowers stage fresh attacks (MEM)

Members of militant Languedoc winegrowers union the Comité Régional d'Action Viticole (CRAV) staged fresh attacks at several points across the region on Wednesday (4 November) in protest against the low prices paid to producers.

UK: Spier drops multiples presence to target UK on-trade (MEM)

South African wine producer Spier has abandoned the multiple grocer retail channel in the UK, focusing instead on the country's on-trade.

US: Hansen Natural continues healthy 2009 in Q3 (REG)

Hansen Natural has reported another quarter of rising profits and sales.

• UK: Scotch whisky protection measures set to become law (MEM)
  New legal regulations covering Scotch whisky have been lined up to become law later this month in the UK.
• US: Coca-Cola Consolidated Q3 profits rise, sales slow (REG)
  Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated has posted a healthy set of profits for its third quarter, despite dipping sales.
• US: Jones Soda eats into losses in Q3 (REG)
  Jones Soda Co has posted a narrowing of its losses in the third quarter as sales continued to slow.
• SPAIN: Coca-Cola launches ‘Burn with Juice’ (MEM)
  Coca-Cola Spain has launched energy drink Burn con Zumo (Burn with Juice) in the country.
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• SPAIN: Chocolate shakes firm Cacaolat plans IPO (MEM)
  Spanish investment group Nueva Rumasa plans to float its chocolate shakes division, Cacaolat, next year in an initial public offering that could raise EUR180m (US$267.5m), a company official has confirmed.
• JAPAN: Seven & I Holdings releases own-label Calif wine (MEM)
  Japanese convenience store giant Seven & I Holdings has launched its first global own-label brand Californian wine named Yosemite Road.

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Monster mission fails for Red Bull?
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It seems Red Bull has had its feathers ruffled after the company’s loss of a contract by supply pub chain JD Wetherspoon in the UK. So much so that...

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The food and drink industries of the ten countries that joined the European Union in 2004 have been transformed by this expansion of Europe’s borderless market. Food and drink companies and markets in the countries that joined the EU on 2007, Bulgaria and Romania, are facing a similar transformation. But what of the countries that are still knocking on the door of the EU for future membership? How will their food and drink sectors fare, assuming their countries are admitted. And how could this further expansion impact on the EU’s existing food and drink sectors? Here we investigate and analyse the potential results of more EU expansion.

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