Constellation's profit rose 78% in its fiscal second quarter as the alcoholic-beverage firm's realignment continued to offset lower sales with improved margins. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Though the Victor, N.Y., alcoholic-beverage maker affirmed its fiscal-year outlook, the company's shares slid 3.5% when its results missed Wall Street's expectations. ❋ John Kell (2012)
As part of a joint venture in China for example, Diageo produces the Shui Jing Fang brand of baijiu, a white spirit that the company says accounts for half of China's alcoholic-beverage consumption by volume. ❋ Dana Cimilluca (2011)
Constellation Brands Inc.'s fiscal second-quarter earnings jumped 78% as the alcoholic-beverage company's realignment continued to offset lower sales with improved margins. ❋ John Kell (2011)
Constellation Brands' fiscal second-quarter earnings rose 78% as the alcoholic-beverage company's realignment continued to offset lower sales. ❋ Steven Russolillo (2011)
Diageo The project comes as Diageo PLC, Guinness's parent company, looks to move away from traditional advertising and use more commissioned content, digital initiatives and live events to plug its alcoholic-beverage brands. ❋ Paul Sonne (2011)
Diageo PLC, Pernod Ricard SA and several other alcoholic-beverage giants agreed to pay a total of about $1.9 million to settle allegations by U.S. regulators that they made illegal payments to gain shelf space at Harrah's Hotels and Casinos. ❋ David Kesmodel (2011)
Me: Have you ever considered expanding into the alcoholic-beverage business? ❋ Unknown (2010)
U. K.-based Diageo — the maker of Guinness beer, Smirnoff vodka and Johnnie Walker whisky — sees an opportunity to move further into the market for Chinese white spirit, or baijiu, a drink that makes up approximately half of China's alcoholic-beverage sector by volume. ❋ Paul Sonne (2010)
Diageo said it will gain greater influence in China's large market for baijiu, a white spirit that Diageo said accounts for about half the nation's alcoholic-beverage consumption by volume. ❋ Paul Sonne (2010)
Some alcoholic-beverage companies and supermarkets oppose the idea. ❋ Jeanne Whalen (2010)
Jim Graham -- that "champion of human services" -- indeed gets that thankless committee, one from which he'll be able to ride herd on the city's juvenile justice and child welfare agencies and, yes, the alcoholic-beverage portfolio. ❋ Mike DeBonis (2010)
In recent weeks, even rivals in the alcoholic-beverage industry began to publicly criticize Four Loko and similar products. ❋ David Kesmodel (2010)
The effort is part of a strategy by Chief Executive Paul Walsh to make Diageo, the world's biggest alcoholic-beverage company by revenue, better at working with supermarket chains, an increasingly important outlets for alcohol sales in Europe and the U.S. In Britain, ❋ Unknown (2009)
In the fourth quarter, Constellation saw consumers turn more cautious on alcoholic-beverage purchases, but the company said some of that may have been an overreaction, and it doesn't expect to see as much of an impact in fiscal 2010. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Pete Wilson is trying to fill the gap with a potpourri of revenue increases - including $7.7 billion in new levies on newspapers and junk food and increases in alcoholic-beverage taxes. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Under draft rules prepared by France's Culture Ministry, supermarket chains and alcoholic-beverage makers could remain off limits to Radio France. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Oenon Holdings Inc., an alcoholic-beverage maker that started out as a sake brewery, is building another rice-ethanol plant, also with government assistance. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Sparks is the No. 1 selling drink in the caffeinated alcoholic-beverage category, with 60% market share, and SABMiller paid $215 million to acquire the brand and other products from McKenzie River Corp. in 2006. ❋ Unknown (2008)
All the paper's revenues come from advertising, much of it from alcoholic-beverage ads of the sort that appear in other free papers distributed around the university. ❋ Unknown (2007)
