The most likely white knights are Brown-Forman (owner of Jack Daniels whiskey) and Constellation Brands (Hardy wine, Corona beer).
Among the top selling brands of spirituous liquor is Jack Daniels Tennessee Whiskey, which is made by Brown-Forman (NYSE: BF-B).
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And he's buried there in Ketchum, his grave marked by a plain granite slab and, Johnson notes, a carefully placed bottle of Jack Daniels.
Mr. LANDIS: Somehow or another, we ended up with some Jack Daniels there, so I had some of that and then went to sleep.
Bacardi or Brown-Forman (owner of Jack Daniels whiskey) or Constellation Brands (another American drinks group), would each find it hard to raise the money.
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Still a bit tipsy on Jack Daniels, they decided to leave a few of their live duck decoys in the travertine marble fountain located in the lobby.
For those of you not familiar with Dickel, the distillery is the main competitor of Jack Daniels in the highly rarefied world of Tennessee whiskey.
Instead of the complicated deal with Fortune Brands, Diageo could simply try to buy Jack Daniels, whose sales volumes and selling price are higher than Jim Beam's in America.
Jack Daniels licensed its name for use on a mustard, which is no big hit and may be poisoning the name of a high-class liquor with images of hot-dog stands.
In the film, an eye-patched Hopper overacts his head off while chain-smoking, swigging Jack Daniels, and zooming around on a jet ski in some kind of filthy, post-apocalyptic pirate outfit.
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And while I can certainly appreciate differences between Bud Light and a great European lager, such subtleties tend to be neutered when you're using the brew to wash down shots of Jack Daniels.
Banish any images of rock legend: forget about dissipated drummers slumped in a junkie haze in some stadium locker room, forget roadies hurling televisions and empty bottles of Jack Daniels from hotel balconies into the pool.
Example: if you sign up Jim Beam to sponsor a particular section of club seats, as one exec in the crowd spoke about, the door is open to sign up Jack Daniels to sponsor another section.
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.
Two years ago Brown-Forman, the Louisville conglomerate that owns best-selling brands such as Jack Daniels (which is not strictly a bourbon because it comes from Tennessee), Early Times and Old Forester, decided to introduce a bourbon at the very top of the range.
One reason it is especially smooth is because it is triple distilled, using a mix of traditional pot stills and modern column stills, and like Jack Daniels here in the States, it is made from local spring water and filtered through charcoal after distillation, removing additional impurities.
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