Comment - Spirits - Beam Buy Takes White Rock to End of the Line
By Andy Morton | 18 June 2012
It was the automated switchboard that suggested something had changed. A couple of weeks ago it answered calls with a cheery "Welcome to White Rock Distilleries". When I called last week it said: "Thank you for calling Jim Beam, Maine."
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It was the automated switchboard that suggested something had changed. A couple of weeks ago it answered calls with a cheery "Welcome to White Rock Distilleries". When I called last week it said: "Thank you for calling Jim Beam, Maine."
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