Liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya-promoted United Spirits on Wednesday said it had acquired Scottish whiskey maker Whyte & Mackay for 595 million pounds (nearly Rs 4,819 crore).
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Fresh trouble seems to be brewing for liquor baron Vijay Mallya, with Mumbai International Airport(MIAL) deciding to sell a mid-sized corporate jet owned by his group company.
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The acquisition is likely to be followed by the merger of Shaw Wallace & Company with group flagship United Spirits.
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Diageo, the world's largest distiller, has been focusing on compliance at United Spirits Ltd (USL) after its acquisition of a controlling stake in India's largest spirits maker.
FIIs have offloaded shares of Bajaj Corp, Nestle, Jyothy Laboratories and Britannia.
Shaw Wallace & Company Ltd, acquired by UB Group, would be merged operationally with the spirits business of United Spirits, chairman of the company Vijay Mallya said.
So what's up? Why are so many promoters heading for the door? It cannot be that all of them lost their appetite for a good fight at the same time.And if Naresh Goyal of Jet Airways and Subhash Chandra of Zee Entertainment do bow out, will it be seen as chickening out when the going got tough or the entrepreneurial instinct of surviving to fight another battle waned, wonders Shailesh Dobhal.
The UB group may introduce a format of lounge bars where it will sell multi-branded merchandise and invest nearly Rs 8-10 crore (Rs 80-100 million) in each of the stores.
Liquor baron Vijay Mallya is believed to have acquired Bouvet-Ladubay, the wine subsidiary of French champagne major Taittinger for $15 million.
The Villa, owned by United Breweries Holding, was mortgaged by KFA to SBI-led 17-bank consortium to obtain loans in 2010
Troubled businessman Vijay Mallya claimed that he paid mere US $100 to buy Barbados Tridents, a franchise in the Caribbean Premier T20 League.
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Diageo, which recently coughed up a total of Rs 18,000 crore (Rs 180 billion) to take majority control of USL, seems to have a lot of faith in him.
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Vijay Mallya had indicated last month that he wanted to move to the UK to be closer to his children.
Nearly 700 of the 1,500 employees, who still claim to be on the payroll of the defunct airline, are women.
'It is surprising and unfortunate that unfounded allegations are now being made without any reference to me whatsoever,' Vijay Mallya said.
UB Holdings facing a slew of legal cases over its exposure to the loans of now-grounded Kingfisher Airlines and increasing pressure from a consortium of lenders, may be forced to seriously go ahead with the transaction this time.
The markets have opened in the red as global peers were down and heavy profit booking was seen in technology, metal, power, auto, cement and telecommunication stocks.
United Breweries says sales could fall by 40% following court ban.
UB Holdings had appealed to the bench, of judges Dilip B Bhosale and B Manohar, to let it use Rs 13 crore (Rs 130 million) from a Rs 380-crore (Rs 3.8 billion) deposit to pay a month's salary to employees of the grounded airline and Rs 47 crore (Rs 470 million) to settle tax dues on capital gains made from the sale of a stake in United Spirits to London-based Diageo that got it Rs 1,460 crore (Rs 14.6 billion).
Vijay Mallya-controlled UB Group's open offer for acquiring stake in liquor firm Shaw Wallace will begin on April 18, the manager to the offer said on Thursday.
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Justice Ram Mohan Reddy asked Mallya to appear in court and bring along his passport.
Decision of Indu Shahani, principal of Mumbai's HR College, to become a director of United Spirits raises an ethical issue.
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