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How Treasury Wine Estates is rewriting the rule book - Editor's Viewpoint

2016-08-22 16:44:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com

For years, they said it couldn't be done. In wine, the theory goes, if you're playing a volume game then you can't all of a sudden make the switch to a value-focussed strategy. And, for a long time, they were right: Talk in recent years of getting consumers to trade up their wine choices has fallen on deaf ears. Within the space of just two years, however, Treasury Wine Estates has proved the theory wrong.

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Do you buy the Wild Geese, Pernod Ricard conspiracy theory? - Editor's Viewpoint

2016-07-19 15:12:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com

In our coverage of the legal ruling in favour of Irish whiskey brand The Wild Geese in Australia yesterday, I sensed a conspiracy theory of pretty impressive proportions. Could the dominant player in the Irish whiskey sector really have been looking to ride roughshod over one of its much smaller competitors?

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Pie in the sky, but soft drinks is running out of choices - Editor's Viewpoint

2016-05-17 18:08:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com

In a note to clients last week, analysts at CLSA spoke to Dr Robert Lustig, an expert on endocrinology and obesity and professor at UC San Francisco. On the call, Dr Lustig discussed "the case against sugar", the title of CLSA's note.

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Anheuser-Busch InBev and China's Snow - This town ain't big enough for the both of us - Editor's Viewpoint

2016-03-02 15:35:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com

For a company dead set on becoming the biggest in its field - and reportedly beyond - Anheuser-Busch InBev's decision to sell off SABMiller's stake in China's CR Snow to JV partner China Resources Beer looks more like a step backwards - and a very cheap one at that.

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