Ricard said that the company’s debt should soon be low enough to allow it to consider further acquisitions. Pernod Ricard’s share of the Seagram deal, which it split with Diageo, cost some €3.2 billion. The acquisition doubled the group’s wine and spirits business but in the process increased Pernod Ricard’s debt to €3.7 billion at the end of 2001.
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