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While each of the BRIC markets continue to throw up their own set of hurdles to sustained, long-term growth, the major spirits companies are becoming ever-more-thankful to the US for its safe bet positioning.

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just-drinks, in association with The IWSR, presents this six-part review of the global rum category. In the final part, we look at the challenges facing the segment and the opportunities that innovation will offer in the months and years ahead.

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just-drinks, in association with The IWSR, presents this six-part review of the non-Scotch whisky category. In part four, we turn our attention to the major whisk(e)y brands.

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Brown-Forman's recent strategic moves represent a narrowing of the company's focus on its core strengths: Whisk(e)y in all its forms, with Tequila playing a supporting role. The big question now is whether that process should continue to its logical conclusion with the disposal of Finlandia vodka, a brand that has hardly been a star performer in recent times.

The head of US spirits company Sazerac has called on the government to safeguard the white oak tree or risk harming the ongoing Bourbon boom.

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Sazerac is ramping up its investment in expanding production at its Buffalo Trace Bourbon distillery, spending US$1.2bn over the next ten years.

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Sazerac Co has rolled out its premium Southern Comfort expression to the Irish market.

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Sazerac's UK spirits bottler The Last Drop has lined up the release of its first fortified wine. The company, which specialises in old and rare spirits, has launched The Last Drop 1870 & 1970 Centenario "Old Colheita" Tawny Port Duo.

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US-headquartered Sazerac is to switch the distribution of its Irish whiskey brand to its own subsidiary in the Irish market.

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Sazerac Co has started distilling whisky at its Old Montreal Distillery in Canada. 

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Sazerac Co's Hi-Spirits Ireland unit will distribute a range of Fratelli Branca Distillerie's products in the country, including the Italian digestif Fernet-Branca. 

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Sazerac Co's UK distributor has announced a seasonal campaign for Southern Comfort as the company looks to further highlight the brand's heritage. 

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The Sazerac Co and Old Rip Van Winkle have lined up the 2017 release of the Van Winkle Bourbon series, which this year will not include a rye. 

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The Sazerac Co has announced the purchase of a stake in India spirits producer John Distilleries. 

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The Sazerac Co is set to release two pre-mixed cocktails in the US, under the Handy & Schiller Barreled Cocktails brand name.

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The Sazerac Co's Buffalo Trace Distillery has lined up the release of its 2017 Antique Collection.

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The Sazerac Co has released an update on its Buffalo Trace distillery expansion project, as it works to keep up with demand for Bourbon. 

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The Sazerac Co's 375 Park Avenue Spirits unit has agreed to import Colombian brand Dictador's aged rum portfolio into the US market.

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Sazaerac Co has followed up the recent repositioning of Southern Comfort with a global packaging update for its other recently-purchased spirits brand, Italy's Tuaca.

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Sazerac Co has unveiled new packaging and a new recipe for Southern Comfort, as it looks to reemphasise the brand's New Orleans provenance cues.

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Sazerac has announced the latest release in its Abraham Bowman line of experimental whiskey.

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The Sazerac Co's Buffalo Trace Distillery has released a four-grain Bourbon, named after former distillery owner Colonel E H Taylor, Jr.

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The Sazerac Co has continued its recent buying spree with the purchase of a stake in San Francisco-based bitters producer Bittermens.

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Sazerac-controlled importer 375 Park Avenue Spirits has appointed a former Bacardi executive to the role of president & COO. 

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The Sazerac Co's Buffalo Trace has outscored Diageo's Bulleit in a new IWSR report that tracks how many times Bourbon brands are listed in craft bars.

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The Sazerac Co has book-ended a year that started with the purchase of Southern Comfort and Tuaca with the acquisition of Cognac producer Domaine Breuil de Segonzac.

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The Sazerac Co is to start producing Tennessee whiskey after buying a distillery in the US state.

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Diageo has confirmed to just-drinks that it has filed a "trade dress" lawsuit in the US against Sazerac regarding alleged similarities between its Bulleit and the US company’s Dr McGillicuddy’s brands.