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...Spirits have been gaining market share for 13 years and overtook beer in 2022, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States....
...The agave-spirit enthusiast created a 41-page spirits menu, my favourites of which include La Paloma de Oaxaca: tequila blanco, mezcal joven, lime, grapefruit soda and worm salt....
...The spirit of Watergate will be missing from the televised hearings, writes Edward Luce....
...A brutal final quarter for some carry-generating investments may dampen spirits slightly, but a new way to compensate private equity millionaires and billionaires has emerged to lighten the mood....
...“We look at food — what’s gaining prominence because of the health movement? We [usually] look at sports events — what colours are most significant within the host country?...
...Younger donors such as Jobs and Chan, who pioneered the use of LLCs, are heralding “a reckoning with the tools of philanthropy”, Brakman Reiser says....
...So keeping spirits up this week has been a challenge. The costs, human and economic, of the coronavirus outbreak are mounting. Share prices have tumbled....
...But the questioning spirit she applies to her day job has led her to challenge this male-dominated world to open up to women....
...Another investment company, Orele Properties LLC, owns a $7m two-bed midtown Manhattan apartment, bought in 2013....
...Franklin Templeton, which holds 4.2 per cent of Stock Spirits, has also said the board would benefit from a “fresh perspective”....
...In response, Breitbart labelled the owner of Rice Krispies, Pop Tarts and Froot Loops “un-American” and “totalitarian”, publishing a story with a headline that claimed the company had been “besieged by food...
...’ takeover of Cadbury and Liberty’s spin-off of Starz....
...been partly a result of the economic slowdown that took place first in developed countries and then in emerging markets, but also because the beer industry has lost consumers to other types of drinks: spirits...
...The giant deal under discussion highlights a backdrop of shifting consumer tastes as smaller craft beer brands steadily erode larger rivals’ market shares and younger drinkers favour wine and spirits....
...Shares in Hillshire were little changed while Pinnacle Foods was down 2 per cent to $31.48....
...to buy canned foods company Del Monte Foods for $1.7bn....
...Milan-based Campari, which owns the eponymous red aperitif brand as well as Wild Turkey bourbon and American spirits maker Skyy Spirits, will buy an 81 per cent stake in Lascelles from C.L....
...The all-cash acquisition of Ypióca launches the UK distiller into the premium market for the spirit used in caipirinha cocktails ahead of the World Cup in 2014 and Olympics in 2016, both in Brazil....
...Diageo, the world’s largest spirits company by sales, is stepping up the pressure on the family owners of tequila maker Jose Cuervo, demanding a resolution to year-long talks over an acquisition within the...
...Now, thanks to a Rbs12bn ($380m) investment from Roman Abramovich’s asset management company Millhouse LLC, the island stands to become both a focal point for contemporary culture – an area of art galleries...
...With Americans spurning beer for spirits, British pubs closing at a rate of 16 a week and Russia slapping punitive taxes on ale, the $160bn industry is increasingly looking to sub-Saharan Africa....
...US beer sales, essentially on an upward trajectory since the end of Prohibition, began flat-lining around the 1980s and went into decline in the past three years as Americans increasingly switched to spirits...
...Diageo, the world’s biggest spirits group, impressed analysts by pulling off organic net sales growth of 9 per cent in the first quarter, ahead of market expectations, although aided by one-offs....
...And Independent Liquor sells spirits and ready-to-drink products which have a higher growth rate than beer....
...Based on this logic, some analysts have floated more inventive tie-ups, such as melding SABMiller with Diageo, the UK spirits maker whose brands include Johnnie Walker whisky and Guinness, or soft drinks...
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