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- New York Times Best-Seller Jason Peter's Hero of the Underground Gives Us a Portrait of a Red-Blooded Jock Who Becomes a Monster Dope Fiend…
- LINCOLN, Neb. -- EXCERPT FROM BOOK: "When you swallow eighty Vicodin, twenty sleeping pills, drink a bottle of vodka, and still survive," writes Jason, "a certain sense of invulnerability stays with you. When you still wake up to see the same dirty sky over you as the night before, you...
- Research articles 2008-08-26
- Japan PM's life tough, but no vodka please
- TOKYO AFP — Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda admits his job is tough and says a glass of wine can relieve the stress. But he draws the line at vodka. Fukuda was slapped earlier this month with an unprecedented censure motion amid slumping approval ratings, weeks before he hosts...
- Research articles 2008-06-17
- Rum Co. purchase.(Pernod Ricard acquiring Vin & Sprit)(Brief article)
- France-based Pernod Ricard signed a US$8.8 billion agreement to buy Vin & Sprit, the Swedish state-owned maker of Absolut vodka and the parent company of Cruzan VIRIL Ltd. on St. Croix, reports The Virgin Islands Daily News (April 1, 2008). The deal could become final this ...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Absolut vodka sale propels Swedish privatisation project
- STOCKHOLM AFP — Sweden's hugely successful sale of its crown jewel Absolut vodka has given the centre-right government's ambitious privatisation programme a shot in the arm, but shaky financial markets could thwart the remaining sales. "Success", "revenge" and "political resurrection" were among the terms used by Swedish media on...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- Sweden says vodka group sold to Pernod for 5.6 billion euros
- STOCKHOLM AFP — The Swedish government said on Monday that it had sold the Vin & Sprit group which owns Absolut vodka to the giant drinks group Pernod Ricard of France for 5.626 billion euros (8.88 billion dollars). Swedish Financial Markets Minister Mats Odell said in a statement that...
- Research articles 2008-03-31
- Sweden sells Absolut to Pernod for 5.6 billion euros
- STOCKHOLM AFP — The Swedish government said on Monday that it had sold the Vin & Sprit group that owns Absolut vodka to the giant drinks company Pernod Ricard of France for 5.626 billion euros (8.88 billion dollars). With the purchase, Pernod Ricard will become the world's leading provider...
- Research articles 2008-03-31
- Fake Olympic vodka seized in Russia
- MOSCOW AFP — Russian prosecutors have confiscated thousands of bottles of illegal Olympic vodka, six years before the Winter Olympic Games come to Russia, an official said Wednesday. Close to 14,000 bottles of vodka that used the Olympic name without permission were confiscated last month, according to a statement...
- Research articles 2008-03-12
- Commentary: N.O. Mayor Nagin left high and dry as Cerasoli support
- Mayor C. Ray Nagin missed the boat on landing credit for his post- Katrina leadership. The mayor offered creative plans (Remember Casino Alley on Poydras Street?) and was roundly panned for them. He's conferred more closely and effectively with President Bush than Gov. Katherine Babineaux Blanco yet it's explained away...
- Research articles 2007-11-19
- Commentary: Mayor Nagin left high and dry as Cerasoli support mounts
- Mayor C. Ray Nagin missed the boat on landing credit for his post- Katrina leadership. The mayor offered creative plans (Remember Casino Alley on Poydras Street?) and was roundly panned for them. He's conferred more closely and effectively with President Bush than Gov. Katherine...
- Research articles 2007-11-19
- Vodka gifts from Putin's party to lure voters: NGOs
- MOSCOW AFP — Russia's ruling party is trying to lure voters in upcoming elections with free bottles of vodka and other gifts, campaigners from two non-governmental groups said in Moscow on Wednesday. Yelena Panfilova, Russia director for Transparency International, an anti-corruption group based in Berlin, said at a news...
- Research articles 2007-10-31
- Australian doctors use vodka drip to save tourist
- SYDNEY AFP — Australian doctors revealed Wednesday that they drip-fed an Italian tourist a steady dose of vodka over three days to save his life after he poisoned himself. The 24-year-old man was taken to a north Queensland hospital two months ago after he swallowed a large amount of...
- Research articles 2007-10-09
- Investment fund to sell vodka giant.
- MOSCOW: Russian Alcohol, the maker of Russia's bestselling vodka Green Mark, has been put up for sole by its investment fund owner Industrial Investors. The company has appointed investment bank ABN Amro to advise on the sale, and it is expected to value the business at up to $600m (303m...
- Research articles 2007-08-25
- Narva's Russians cross bridge for vodka but prefer their Estonian home
- NARVA, Estonia AFP — There are few better places to get behind the complexities of vexed relations between Estonia and its former overlord Russia than with your feet planted on the river bank in this eastern border city. Separated by a bridge over just 150 metres yards of water...
- Research articles 2007-08-08
- Leading brands of distilled spirits, 2007.(Distilled Spirits)
- LEADING BRANDS OF DISTILLED SPIRITS, 2007 (000 Mixed Cases) Brand Category Supplier ...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Bacardi
- Bacardi has publicly registered its interest in buying V & S Group, the owner of Absolut vodka. In an interview with the Financial Times March 5, Bacardi chief executive Andreas Gembler said V & S and Absolut would be "a terrific fit" for the privately-owned spirits giant. "Of the few...
- Research articles 2007-03-12
- Sweden's Absolut Vodka sale makes suitors drool
- STOCKHOLM AFP — After 90 years in state hands, Sweden plans to sell off one of its crown jewels, the Absolut Vodka brand, sparking interest from suitors in the drinks industry vying for a share of the expanding global vodka market. No sooner had Sweden's centre-right government presented a...
- Research articles 2007-03-06
- Australian man attacks shark with bare hands: report
- SYDNEY AFP — An Australian man reportedly attacked a shark with his bare hands after drinking copious amounts of vodka and deciding to turn the tables on one of nature's deadliest predators. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that Phillip Kerkhof was the talk of his hometown at Louth Bay...
- Research articles 2007-02-16
- Blavod Extreme Spirits PLC announces Trading Statement
- Blavod Extreme Spirits plc ("the Company" or "Blavod") ...
- Research articles 2007-01-11
- Moscow menu
- Rugby players the Moscow Magicians were due to play a challenge match at Fartown but several members of the team found time to visit the Pennine Hilton hotel at Ainley Top, where chef Richard Dunn bypassed caviare and vodka and served them traditional fish and chips. Richard is pictured with...
- Research articles 2006-12-30
- Actor takes long view on drinking buddy Danny DeVito's antics
- NEW YORK -- Instead of talking about The Good German, his experimental postwar film noir directed by frequent collaborator Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's Eleven), George Clooney spent much of this past weekend discussing the misbehaving Italian-American. In what has inflated into Limoncello-gate, a small dinner gathering last Tuesday at Scalinatella that...
- Research articles 2006-12-04
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