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Diageo is to buy one of Brazil’s bestselling makers of cachaça, the sugarcane-derived liquor that serves as a base for caipirinhas and ranks first among distilled drinks in the South American country. The all-cash R$900m ($450m) deal for Ypióca, the ...
May 28, 2012 at 10:09 | Source: Financial Times
LONDON—Diageo PLC said Monday it has bought one of Brazil's biggest producers of cachaça, the country's best-selling spirit, as part of the U.K. drink maker's continued expansion into the lucrative Latin American market. Diageo will pay £300 ...
May 28, 2012 at 13:22 | Source: Wall Street Journal
LONDON (Reuters) - British drinks group Diageo is buying a maker of Brazil's most popular spirit, cachaca, for about 300 million pounds ($469 million), boosting its expansion in fast-growing emerging markets while it fights for a bigger prize in tequila.
May 28, 2012 at 08:58 | Source: The Guardian
Diageo (DGE.LN), the premium drinks business, announced Monday it has reached agreement with Ypioca Agroindustrial Limitada to acquire its cachaca brand, Ypioca, and certain production assets, for consideration is BRL900 million in cash, or about GBP300M ...
May 28, 2012 at 14:27 | Source: 4-traders (press release)
With sales of £60m a year, Ypioca is the country’s second largest producer of cachaça, the spirit which forms the basis of the Brazilian national cocktail, the caipirinha. Given that both the World Cup and the Olympics are heading Brazil's way in the ...
May 28, 2012 at 11:49 | Source: Management Today
(RTTNews.com) - Diageo Plc (DEO, DGE.L) has entered into an agreement with Ypioca Agroindustrial Limitada to acquire the premium cachaca brand, Ypioca, and certain production assets, for BRL 900 million or about 300 million pounds cash.
May 28, 2012 at 04:40 | Source: NASDAQ
LONDON, May 15 (Reuters) - British drinks group Diageo is weeks away from buying a minority stake in the owner of the world's no. 1 tequila brand, Jose Cuervo, a business valued at $3 billion-plus, with talks focusing on whether the Beckmann ...
May 15, 2012 at 11:43 | Source: Reuters
NORWALK, Conn., May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Diageo, the world's leading premium drinks company, today announced a year-long commitment to military personnel with an inaugural donation of $10,000 to iPads for Soldiers via the Captain Morgan brand's First ...
May 25, 2012 at 01:30 | Source: Digital Journal
NORWALK, Conn., May 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Diageo, the world's leading premium drinks company, announced today that it has signed letters of intent to foster partnerships and projects that will aid in the agricultural development of Ethiopia ...
May 25, 2012 at 05:26 | Source: Yahoo Finance
Diageo plc (Diageo) is a branded beverage alcohol company. The company produces and distributes branded premium spirits, beer and wine. Key brands offered by the company include Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker, Captain Morgan, Baileys Original Irish Cream, J&B ...
May 20, 2012 at 12:49 | Source: Transworld News