John Swinney (Leader of the SNP, North Tayside) led with a question to Jack McConnell about the Scottish whisky industry.

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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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