Suntory Holdings to Acquire Beam in $16 Billion Transaction

Suntory Holdings to Acquire Beam in $16 Billion Transaction - Business Wire

Agreement Represents a Premium of 25% Over the Closing Price on January 10, 2014 and a Multiple of More Than 20 Times Beam's Latest 12 Months' EBITDA 1 Creates the World's #3 Premium Spirits Player with Portfolio of Leading Brands Across Key Spirits Categories, Enhanced Global Reach and Unparalleled Expertise in the Fast-Growing Whisky Category ...

How to Drink Quinoa

How to Drink Quinoa - Food & Wine

Can't get enough quinoa? Here are 10 inventive products that use it, like Corsair Distillery's quinoa whiskey .

Upcoming Drink Trends: What To Expect In 2014

Upcoming Drink Trends: What To Expect In 2014 - AskMen

Bottle-serviced Grey Goose and Cognac, watch your back. You now have competition from high-end tequilas, ranging from decent to delicious, and all designed to attract the nightclub crowd.

Whiskey insiders: Ky. bourbon truly American, even when foreign companies own distilleries

Whiskey insiders: Ky. bourbon truly American, even when foreign companies own distilleries - Brandon Sun

The planned $13.62 billion acquisition of the owner of Jim Beam and Maker's Mark by a Japanese company adds two more classic brands to the lineup of bourbon staples tied to foreign-based parent companies.

Why Beam's Liquor Is So Valuable, Especially in Asia

Why Beam's Liquor Is So Valuable, Especially in Asia - BusinessWeek

The purchase price is also a 25 percent premium to Beam's closing price on Friday, reflecting above all the popularity of bourbon and the growth Beam and other distillers have seen as they've experimented with whiskey flavorings to expand the market.

How Burns Suppers are celebrated around the world

How Burns Suppers are celebrated around the world - Scotsman

With Robert Burns' most famous ditty Auld Lang Syne paying tribute to old and absent friends, and given the historically far-flung Scottish diaspora, it's hardly surprising that expat Scots and those of Scottish descent have taken the Burns Night or Suppers to heart, with celebrations around 25 January taking place in any country one cares to name.

Some Americans Are Threatening To Stop Drinking Jim Beam Now That It's Owned By A Japanese Company

Some Americans Are Threatening To Stop Drinking Jim Beam Now That It's Owned By A Japanese Company - Silicon Alley Insider

So yesterday, when Japanese liquor giant Suntory announced it is purchasing Beam Inc. - which distills Jim Beam and Maker's Mark - Americans did the only thing that seemed right.