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US: William Grant & Sons appoints new US chief
16 April 2013
William Grant & Sons has promoted one of its senior executives to the role of managing director and president of its US division.
UK: Pernod Ricard to build Beefeater visitor centre
6 February 2013
Pernod Ricard is set to start work on a visitor centre at its Beefeater distillery in London.
UK: Diageo to extend HR manager's role as Lenton moves to Jaguar
6 December 2012
Diageo is to expand the role of one of its management team to cover the post of an HR colleague who will depart for the auto industry.
just The Preview - Pernod Ricard Q1
22 October 2012
Pernod Ricard will release its first-quarter results on Thursday (25 October). Here, just-drinks takes a look at the highs and lows for the company in the three months to the end of September.
FRANCE: Pernod Ricard chairman dies
20 August 2012
Patrick Ricard, the chairman and former CEO of Pernod Ricard, has died aged 67.
UK: Pernod Ricard releases Beefeater London bottle
7 June 2012
Pernod Ricard has lined up a London-centric bottling of its Beefeater gin brand.
Comment - Spirits - Plymouth Gin: West is Best
26 January 2012
When Pernod Ricard said last week that it is updating the packaging for - and raising the price of - Plymouth Gin, there was a run on tonic water at Richard Woodard's local shop. It's taken a while, but the brand is back, and Woodard would like to celebrate.
Comment - Irish Whiskey Goes Plural
18 January 2012
Beam Inc's acquisition of Cooley Distillery puts Irish whiskey entirely in the hands of drinks industry 'big hitters' and looks set to spur an unprecedented level of investment in the category.
Comment - Diageo, Pernod Ricard Ten Years After Seagram
22 December 2011
Ten years on and the legacy of Pernod Ricard and Diageo's carve-up of Seagram is still being felt.
just The Facts - Beam Global Spirits & Wine Performance
4 October 2011
Fortune Brands has turned itself into a standalone spirits company named Beam Inc. Here, just-drinks brings you stats on the company's sales and profits for wine and spirits since 2003.
GLOBAL: SPI Group switches global commercial director
25 August 2011
SPI Group has replaced its global commercial director.
AUS/SINGAPORE: Accolade Wines targets Asia Pacific with exec appointment
2 August 2011
Accolade Wines has turned its attention to Asia Pacific, with the creation of a commercial general manager role for the region.
US: Diageo exec joins Southern Wine & Spirits
21 July 2011
Southern Wine & Spirits of America has lined up two appointments for its North American Spirits & Wine Brokerage (NASW) division.
US: Terlato Wine International gets a president
14 March 2011
Terlato Wine Group has created the position of president at its Terlato Wines International division.
The Wehring Interview - Pernod Ricard
10 March 2011
February's Wehring interview comes ten days late, due to the early arrival of Wehring Junior shortly after our editor returned from France, where he was granted 30 minutes with the CEO of Pernod Ricard, Pierre Pringuet. In their time together, Pringuet discusses the first six months of Pernod's fiscal 2011, as well as Absolut, China and war-chests.
Comment - Spirits - Bye-Bye Caution, Hello Buy?
20 January 2011
A down-in-the-dumps Richard Woodard is a Richard Woodard best-avoided. But, the spirits giants of this world can bring him out of his stupor. And, all it would take is a little bit of spending.
US: Moet Hennessy switches CEO in US
3 December 2010
Moet Hennessy has confirmed a change of leadership at its US unit.
UK: Stock Spirits Group switches CFO in management shuffle
25 November 2010
Stock Spirits Group has announced another change of CFO, its second in less than a year.
Comment - Pernod Ricard calls time on Lindauer
18 October 2010
Pernod Ricard has been shunting Lindauer towards the exit door for some time, so a move to Lion Nathan and Indevin should not be surprising.
Comment - Spirits - Hine-Sight's Fine Sight
27 July 2010
It must be madness, but Richard Woodard is in buying mood. Considering the state of the world's finances, his timing could be well off. But only Hine-sight will show whether he is a genius, or a fool...
The just-drinks Interview - Chivas Brothers' CEO, Christian Porta
1 July 2010
While our paths have crossed on an almost monthly basis over the last six years, just-drinks has never interviewed the chairman and CEO of Pernod Ricard's Chivas Brothers unit, Christian Porta. So, when Olly Wehring was invited to the official opening of The Glenlivet's distillery extension last month, he took the opportunity to finally pin Porta down for a chat on all things Chivas.
NZ: Pernod Ricard changes Montana to Brancott Estate
22 June 2010
Pernod Ricard has announced a global name-change for its New Zealand wine brand, Montana.
US: Foster’s appoints sommelier to head up Wine Estates
20 May 2010
Foster’s Wine Estates has appointed master sommelier Fred Dame as its vice president of luxury sales.
just the facts – Drinks fraud cases
16 April 2010
Earlier this week police in the UK arrested two people in connection to a suspected GBP3m wine investment scam dealing in Australian wine. The operation, codenamed Operation Iceman, has seen a total of eight people arrested in the operation. Here we take a look at other drinks scams.
IRELAND: Diageo lines up Bushmills comp
15 March 2010
Diageo has lined up the launch of a consumer competition on Facebook for its Bushmills Irish whiskey brand.
The just-drinks Interview - Pernod Ricard's MD of Finance
11 March 2010
Late last month, Gilles Bogaert, the recently-appointed managing director of finance - CFO, if you will - for Pernod Ricard came to the UK to look over the company's most recent set of figures. While in the country, Olly Wehring took the opportunity to grill Bogaert about the last six months for Pernod, how the downturn has affected the company, and what Pernod would do if - when? - the bargains come knocking.
Comment - A Word with Woodard - Rowing with Captain Morgan
25 February 2010
It’s already been christened, in typical journalese, the “Rum Wars”. It’s prompted angry exchanges in the Caribbean, questions on Capitol Hill and, most recently, a vitriolic attack by the world’s biggest drinks company on one of its rivals. So just what is going on with Diageo’s new Captain Morgan distillery? Richard Woodard picks apart Captain Morgan's current adventure.
Research - Downturn hampers Tequila export growth
29 January 2010
With Tequila’s sales concentrated in the on-trade in most countries apart from its two principal markets, the US and Mexico, the downturn’s negative impact on the on-premise channel is expected to have hit Tequila volumes, and its drive to develop international sales substantially beyond the US, says a new report from just-drinks/IWSR.
just the decade - The stories that defined the 2000s
24 December 2009
As the decade draws to a close and just-drinks reflects on its first ten years of publication, our editorial team picks the ten stories that defined the noughties for the drinks industry and shaped our editorial coverage as we grew from 600 readers a month to 100,000.
UK: Pernod Ricard confirms UK channel director changes
9 December 2009
Pernod Ricard has announced a brace of channel director appointments in the UK.
