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...At LVMH, the luxury industry’s bellwether, the wine and spirits division was the only one where sales fell in the first nine months of the year compared to the same period in 2022....
...Scarcity contributes to the mystique of fine wines. But only when the wine rather than the bottles is in short supply. French and Portuguese wineries say they cannot find enough of the latter....
...The magic of the kitchen and the season transformed imported ingredients into the most British of festive foods: mulled wine, Christmas cake, nut roast, marzipan, gingerbread, chocolates, orange jelly, rum...
...“And so the days on the line are hard, bodies are sore, but spirits are high.”...
...Shanxi Xinghuacun Fen Wine Factory Co Sector: BEVERAGES / HQ: SHANXI, china A Chinese spirits maker known for its broad product line, Xinghuacun Fen benefited from China’s post-coronavirus recovery....
...Suits have been brought in a number of states, including California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and New York....
...Upstairs, vendors hawk their latest audience-enticing gizmos, from $2,500 leather chairs and state-of-the-art wine-vending machines to bespoke 3D glasses, 4D seating systems — and bite-sized Snickers bars...
...However, Mr Niinami said Suntory was not interested in knock-on deals, especially since its focus was on brown spirits such as whiskey and bourbon after last year’s $16bn takeover of the Illinois-based maker...
...At the parties thrown by some of the world’s biggest trading houses, refiners and tank owners, spirits were high, having taken advantage of cheap oil and lucrative opportunities to engage in profitable storage...
...But Erik Bouts, who heads the European business of Owens-Illinois, which makes containers for the drinks and food industry such as Dutch brewer Heineken, insists the opposite is true: that glass has now...
...He and I were probably doing a Wine & Spirit Education Trust course at the same time, though I feel sure I would have remembered a rangy, impossibly youthful-looking American drummer....
...of Southern California....
...LVMH already has a nascent hotel group, which is slowly but surely becoming another leg of the business, along with wines & spirits and fashion & beauty, as “experiences” – which BCG recently quantified...
...Brown-Forman, the wine and spirits company that owns brands including Jack Daniel’s and Southern Comfort, says the Beam Inc acquisition by Suntory “doesn’t really change anything”....
...Vintage occasion The annual auction of Hospice di Beaune wines is scheduled to ta...
...“Because at heart, said Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, Aaron was ‘among the best spirits of the Internet generation.’”...
...When I explain this to Shane Smith, hard-partying co-founder and chief executive of Vice Media, his response lifts the spirits on a gloomy winter’s day in southern California....
...European diplomats speak more enthusiastically about reaching a long-awaited bilateral trade deal between European Union and India in coming weeks once sticking points over cars, wines and spirits, services...
...“I am not in a wine-drinking position,” she says with a smile, when the waiter asks if we want a drink. She is nine months pregnant with her first child and the due date is a couple of weeks away....
...Mr Obama’s administration predicted a V-shaped recovery, based on the historical experience of the 1970s and 1980s. Not this time....
...Amazon also moved to close facilities in Arkansas, Connecticut, Illinois and Texas when plans to tax e-commerce were debated....
...It was advised by Morgan Stanley and Centerview Partners. Fortune now intends to separate its home and security businesses, leaving it as a pure-play spirits company trading under the name Beam....
...Richard G Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s hugely influential book The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better (2009) seems to present an obvious truth – that places where the differential...
...After studying chemical engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in 1982, Mr Prasad received a masters in industrial administration at Purdue....
...But to appeal more seriously to its core customer base of beer, wine, spirits and soft drinks manufacturers, Mr Stroucken admits glass companies need to hit commercial as well as environmental objectives...
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