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Late last month, in Pernod Ricard's full-year results, the spirits company flagged a tough time for Absolut vodka. Richard Woodard surveys the wreckage and considers the brand's future.

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On Thursday, Diageo will report its preliminary full-year results. Here just-drinks takes a look at how the group has fared in its final quarter, the three months to the end of June:

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Mergers and acquisitions have to varying degrees been important in shaping the different alcoholic drinks categories.

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After months of speculation, a buyer for Scotch whisky producer Whyte & Mackay finally emerged today (9 May). Philippines-based Emperador Inc has agreed to acquire the business from Diageo-controlled United Spirits for GBP430m (US$729m). Here, just-drinks offers a more detailed look at Emperador:

Since forming in 1978, privately-owned Halewood Wines & Spirits has quietly carved a niche in the UK's beer, wine, spirits and RTD categories, through the Lambrini, Red Square vodka and Crabbie's Alcoholic Ginger Beer brands. However, performance has suffered in the years following founder John Halewood's death. In the first of a two-part interview, group CEO Stewart Hainsworth talks to just-drinks' deputy editor, Lucy Britner, about his vision for the group's future growth as well as Russian oligarchs and the company's recent stake purchase in The Pogues Irish whiskey.

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Jorge Grosse has been CEO of González Byass since mid-2006. Earlier this year, just-drink editor Olly Wehring met him in London to discuss Sherry, casks and the firm's moves to diversify its portfolio.

International Beverage has confirmed a change of marketing director, with a former Heineken and Whyte & Mackay executive assuming the role.

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Whyte & Mackay has added a gin to its owned spirits portfolio in the UK. The Scotch whisky specialist, which owns the Jura and The Dalmore single malts, as well as its namesake blended Scotch, is launching Wildcat Gin in the country this week.

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Whyte & Mackay has relaunched its Harveys sherry brand in the UK market as it looks to encourage consumers to serve the product chilled.

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Spirits companies Whyte & Mackay and Proximo Spirits have teamed up to create a joint sales force targeting the UK on-premise channel.

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Whyte & Mackay will showcase a brace of single malt Scotch whisky collections for the Global Travel Retail channel at this year's TFWA Exhibition in Cannes.

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Whyte & Mackay has launched a new blended Scotch whisky brand, designed to target younger consumers who have yet to try Scotch.

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Emperador's Whyte & Mackay unit has released the final instalment in a limited-edition range of its Jura brand.

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Emperador's Scotch whisky unit Whyte & Mackay has released a smaller bottle of its namesake blended whisky brand, as it looks to offer consumers a "value-friendly" option, following the introduction of a minimum unit price for alcohol in Scotland.

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Emperador's Scotch whisky unit Whyte & Mackay has secured listings for two single malt brands with Emirates airline.

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Whyte & Mackay is poised to release a limited edition, 45-year-old iteration of The Dalmore.

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Emperador's Whyte & Mackay unit has lined up permanent merchandising for The Dalmore in Global Travel Retail, as it looks to underline the single malt Scotch whisky brand's presence in the sector.

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Emperador has released details of a new, permanent range of single malt Scotch whiskies.

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Emperador’s Whyte & Mackay Scotch whisky unit has lined up a limited edition, no-age-statement expression of its Jura single malt brand.

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Emperador is set to release a new blended Scotch whisky through its Whyte & Mackay division.

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Emperador has released a new permanent extension of its Jura Scotch whisky brand in the US.

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Philippine-based spirits group Emperador has posted an 11% jump in full-year sales as it launches its brandies in the US.

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Emperador has lined up a sponsorship deal for its Whyte & Mackay blended Scotch brand with the British & Irish Lions rugby team.

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Emperador's Scotch whisky unit, Whyte & Mackay, has released a 50-year-old expression of The Dalmore to mark master distiller Richard Paterson's 50th year in the Scotch industry.

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Whyte & Mackay has lined up the roll-out of a 35-year-old iteration of its The Dalmore single malt Scotch whisky.

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Emperador has launched an out-of-home advertising push for the Whyte & Mackay blended Scotch in the UK.

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Emperador has created the role of rare whisky director at its Whyte & Mackay unit, with former Diageo executive Jonathan Driver the inaugural appointee.

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