just the Round-Up - The week in drinks

The top ten stories published on just-drinks last week:

• just On Call - Carlsberg Quizzed on Russia

Carlsberg faces an uphill battle to persuade analysts that it can rejuvenate its Russian beer business this year, following a tumultuous 2011.

• UK: Marblehead lines up brand-launches, post-Zubrowka

Marblehead Brand Development is looking to develop its own Polish flavoured-vodka range, once it loses the UK distribution rights for Zubrowka to William Grant & Sons' First Drinks division.

• UK: Diageo gives Vanilla Smirnoff UK ad push

Diageo is to run an outdoor advertising campaign for the vanilla-flavoured variant of its Smirnoff vodka brand.

• UK: Pernod Ricard CEO bemoans tough H1 for Havana Club

The CEO of Pernod Ricard has voiced his disappointment with the performance of Havana Club in the first half of the company's fiscal year.

• just On Call - CAGNY 2012: SABMiller sees brewers "driving blandness"

SABMiller's MD for Europe believes that beer consumption can still rebound in the hard-hit region, but is concerned that mainstream brewers are "driving blandness".

• CZECH: Anheuser-Busch InBev quiet on StarBev offer

CVC Capital is understood to have received takeover interest in its StarBev brewing arm.

• just On Call: Coca-Cola Amatil keeps eye on future in brewing

Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) said it has high expectations of entering brewing again following the sale of its 50% stake in Pacific Beverages to SABMiller.

• just on Call - CAGNY 2012: Coca-Cola Enterprises not fazed by Eurozone crisis

Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has said it is confident its business model can handle any shift in European consumption patterns that may occur as a result of the continent's slow economic recovery.

• US: Gruppo Campari to build US$40m bottling facility

Gruppo Campari is to build a US$44m bottling plant at its Wild Turkey Bourbon Distillery in the US.

• US: Monster Beverage Corp FY profits climb

Monster Beverage Corp has recorded an increase in full-year profits and said it will continue to enter new markets worldwide.