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...On Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach, bartender Luan da Silva Cruz said Jack Daniels — owned by US group Brown-Forman — and Johnnie Walker Black Label tend to sell well....
...She’s aided in her efforts by Esmie and Daniel, twin offspring of a wildlife expert called in to deal with a bat infestation....
...“It was an execution,” says Johnnie Carson, US ambassador to Kenya at the time of the operation. “Gas didn’t kill him. He had been assassinated.”...
...The Game of Thrones themed White Walker by Johnnie Walker also proved a hit. Revenues were up 6 per cent, profits after tax up 5 per cent....
...It sells Johnnie Walker; the best-selling blended Scotch as well as single malts such as Talisker....
...Albert, several years younger, was bewitched; he called her Dollie and she called him Johnnie. Their families did not approve. Mileva became pregnant....
...The UK company, which makes Johnnie Walker scotch and Smirnoff vodka, has been through a difficult three-year turnround under chief executive Ivan Menezes....
...Jim Bean’s parent Beam-Suntory owns Sauza; Brown-Forman, the owner of Jack Daniel’s, produces Herradura; and Bacardi has a minority stake in Patrón....
...One local estimates the going rate for a bottle of Jack Daniel’s bourbon in Riyadh is about $400. In the capital’s diplomatic quarter, consulates and embassies frequently host “wet” events....
...In the US, younger consumers have been knocking back bourbons and flavoured whiskies, such as Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey, at a faster rate than Scotch....
...Vansteenkiste says: “In former days, we had fake champagne, vodka, Johnnie Walker whisky. What we see now is day-to-day consumer goods, [things like] tomato juice and orange juice....
...From Shanghai to São Paulo, a burgeoning new generation of well-heeled drinkers was only too happy to splash out on brands such as Johnnie Walker Black Label, Chivas Regal and Ballantine’s Gold Seal....
...Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey, this year became the first flavoured whiskey to sell 1m cases only three years after its launch in 2011....
...Analysts say the most obvious target is Jack Daniel’s, owned by family-controlled Brown-Forman....
...“These guys [on the Argentine side] are really organised,” says Daniel Mettyear, an analyst with the International Wine and Spirits Record (IWSR), who monitors South American drink consumption....
...The big beneficiaries are Brown Forman – owner of Jack Daniels – and Beam....
...According to Maureen Brekka, director of marketing in North America for Jack Daniel’s owners Brown-Forman, says the bourbon brand’s Tennessee Honey has extended the appeal among women....
...William Chappell, analyst at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, said: “This was the only company really up for grabs, as Brown-Forman, the maker of Jack Daniels, is family owned....
...The latter is a direct challenge to the maker of Johnnie Walker in its biggest market....
...Diageo, maker of Smirnoff vodka and Johnnie Walker whisky, already distributes José Cuervo, which has about $2bn of annual sales, in main export markets....
...Presiding over this sequence like Justice Aretha Franklin is that force of nature Johnnie Fiori. Joseph Drake makes an impressive professional debut as Vernon....
...In the 1990s, when president Daniel arap Moi was in power in Kenya, donors led by the World Bank and IMF cut off lending to the country several times in protest at human rights abuses and corruption....
...The maker of Johnnie Walker and Smirnoff lost 2 per cent to 782p on turnover about twice the average....
...Sorkin had no cards and he played them well,” says Daniel Richman, a professor at Columbia University and a former federal prosecutor....
...David Gates, global brand director for Johnnie Walker....
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