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...The whiskey brand’s sales have increased threefold since the takeover in 2009, according to the company’s data....
...He organised a series of nationwide arts programmes, community projects and scholarships promoting African‑American voices, funded by Beefeater gin....
...He sold his Aviation Gin brand to Diageo for $600mn, and T-Mobile is awaiting approval to buy Mint Mobile in a deal that would net the Canadian actor around $300mn....
...(Except the compulsive tidiness of the pocket square, which would garner some puzzled looks over the gin-and-tonics.)...
...Many countries still turned to a spirit of choice: Brazilians favoured gin, Colombians liqueurs and vodka, said Diageo....
...Other household names, including Procter & Gamble, Hendrick’s gin, produced by William Grant & Sons, and the Fossil watch brand have all recently run similar planting campaigns....
...The strategy, which later spread to other generally unloved companies, offered a tantalising return for day traders like DFV....
...Events move rather fast in marketing now: one company’s error is turned into another’s marketing meme before the media hubbub subsides....
...The shortage of premium Japanese whisky was compensated for by the launch of new products such as Toki, a non-aged Japanese whisky for the US market, and Roku, Japanese craft gin....
...A further addition of more mid-sized Chinese companies will lift the weighting to more than 3 per cent by May 2020....
...The “Roaring ’20s” are remembered as a decade of gin-soaked parties, jazz and extravagance....
...At £30 a bottle, its Sipsmith’s London dry gin costs twice as much as Diageo’s Gordon’s and one-third more than its upmarket Tanqueray gin....
...If Mr Smith has ordered a gin and tonic with a double twist of lime on his previous five flights, should a flight attendant offer him one on his next, before he is asked?...
...“The strong trend in gin and tonic looks set fair across gin drinkers,” RBC said. That bodes well for global drinks group Diageo....
...The San Francisco-based company — known for its viral hit, FarmVille — said it would fork over $100m to snap up the Peak Games studio, which is behind Spades Plus, Gin Rummy Plus and popular local Turkish...
...General Mills, producer of Cheerios cereal, used its 301 Inc subsidiary to invest in Rhythm Superfoods which makes broccoli snacks and kale crisps....
...In the UK, net sales grew 7 per cent, primarily driven by growth in gin and beer....
...Take the company’s name off the $1.5bn bond it is readying to issue on Friday and it is doubtful it would gin up the same investor fervour....
...Gin if the single malt had gone down the kitchen sink. Tequila? Pah!...
...Apple passes the time trying to gin up enthusiasm for its services business....
...Investors in Johnson & Johnson have tried to gin up interest among activists in harassing the US healthcare conglomerate into a break-up. They are quite right that J&J could use a good shaking....
...Ricard Travel Retail Europe — sent the group’s 18,000-odd employees worldwide an internal message of support, saying: “This does not change our ambition in the market and for our Scotch whiskies and British gins...
...In the executive dining room, white-gloved staff served pink gins and cigars....
...A wave of new tinned beverages, from gin and tonic and wine, to sports and energy drinks, is driving demand for different sizes, resealable formats and designs that drinks companies can customise....
...The Federal Communication Commission, the US telecoms regulator, has hired boutique company Greenhill & Co to gin up interest in an auction of the 600MHz spectrum band owned by local US broadcast television...
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