Jim Beam, Fortune's biggest spirits brand (others include Maker's Mark and Old Crow), would allow Diageo to compete more effectively with Brown-Forman, the owner of Jack Daniels, in the lucrative market for bourbon, an American style of whisky.

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LG, perhaps more than any other handset maker, hopes 2011 will bring a reversal of fortune.

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With HP now the largest PC maker, that could be all AMD needs to reverse its fortune.

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After the fall of the Soviet Union, Mr. Berezovsky built his fortune by gaining effective control of Russia's largest Soviet-era car maker, Avtovaz.

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