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2020 – The British Honey Co buys The London Distillery Co in rescue deal
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UK spirits company The British Honey Co rescued The London Distillery Co from administration through an acquisition.
Anheuser-Busch InBev CEO Carlos Brito reportedly blamed US cannabis tourists for clouding data on whether cannabis legalisation in North America was damaging beer sales.
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2018 – “We can handle Brexit in our stride” – just-drinks speaks to Diageo CEO Ivan Menezes
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On the day that Diageo released results for the first half of its fiscal-2018, just-drinks had a call with CEO Ivan Menezes to talk about the geopolitical issues on the horizon, Bacardi’s takeover of Patron Tequila and what on earth Jane Walker was going to be.
just-drinks met with Miles Beale, the head of the UK’s Wine & Spirit Trade Association, to discuss all things Brexit. In the first of a two-part interview, Beale looked at how the country’s wine and spirits categories had responded to the referendum vote in June, 2016.
The Coca-Cola Co rolled out a limitless line of packaging designs for Diet Coke in a marketing campaign that ran in the US in early-2016.
Consumers are faced with too many choices in the UK on-premise, an analyst warned, after research showed that eight out of ten people were avoiding new alcoholic drinks.
The CEO of Edrington forecast in 2014 that broad-based demand for Scotch whisky had given the category an unprecedented momentum.
ThaiBev was poised to take control of Fraser & Neave after rival bidder Overseas Union Enterprise stepped out of the race to acquire the Singapore conglomerate.
PepsiCo’s Diet Mountain Dew, Brisk and Starbucks soft drinks brands broke the US$1bn annual sales barrier in January, 2012.
The number of alcohol-related deaths in the UK fell by nearly 13% in 2009, according to figures released ten years ago, but remained more than double the figure of the early 1990s.
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