For the first nine months of the current financial year, net sales rose by close to 37 per cent to Rs 1,470 crore (Rs 14.7 billion( over the previous corresponding period, while operating profit increased by another 37 per cent to Rs 322 crore (Rs 3.22 billion).
Now that democracy is creeping up on Myanmar, there are palpable changes. "Sixty five per cent of Myanmar is dependent on agriculture. We grow mostly paddy. Most of the land is owned by the state and you give a share of what you grow to the government, keeping the rest for your own consumption. But now, things are changing.
'Waging battle over a jar of marmalade seemed petty beyond belief so I simply lost my craving for the preserve,' Kishore Singh writes
Formula One was accused of sending out a mixed message on alcohol at the Monaco Grand Prix on Friday by giving extensive publicity to drinks brands while campaigning for road safety.
Launched in March 2010, McDowell's No 1 Platinum is a 100 per cent premium grain-based blend developed by Scottish master blender, Richard Paterson.
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Panicking at the sight of Central Bureau of Investigation sleuths at his doorstep, a customs official on Tuesday allegedly tried to set afire currency notes worth Rs 10 lakh, suspected to be received in bribe, after pouring whisky over them.
Even as politics engaged him more, he never hid his way of life. On one occasion, Morarji Desai pleaded with him to stop drinking publicly. "You stick to your pissky and I'll stick to my whisky'' he is supposed to have told him.
While Maharashtra has increased the minimum age for consuming alcohol to 25 from 21, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi and West Bengal allow their denizens to consume and buy alcohol after they turn 21 and Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh let their denizens consume alcohol after turning just 18, the age at which they are eligible to vote as well as get a driving license. Is the Maharashtra government right in increasing the minimum age limit t0 25? Tell us!
The Didar De girl now features in the raunchy Desi Soda Whisky music video.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, disclosed that he has discovered he is the illegitimate son of Britain's war-time Prime Minister Winston Churchill's private secretary.
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Nobody likes misery for company, especially on a holiday, says Kishore Singh.
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The Year of India in Russia - as 2009 is officially known - has helped India Inc get into a long bear hug with the Russian consumer. They are lapping up everything - from Ratan Tata's marquee cars to Vijay Mallya's whisky.
A confidential note from the Prime Minister's Office has instructed foreign office heads of missions and union ministries to not serve no non-vegetarian food at banquet-dinner or lunches at 7 Race Course Road in the prime minister's presence. The instructions are extended to banquets hosted in the PM's honour on foreign soil as well.
They have everything they wanted as a teenager - only they seem to have got it all 50 years later, says ad guru Sandeep Goyal.
The industry experienced new pressures on its operating margins and sales in the wake of increasing input costs and new excise regime. For the domestic spirits manufacturing industry, the cost of raw materials such as molasses doubled since March. Packaging costs rose by 15-20 per cent. The widening of services tax resulted in 50 per cent new services to be taxed at 12.36 per cent. Besides an increase in labour costs, inflation also played havoc with the operating margins.
Weddings make you wish you had a hundred hands instead of a brain that feels like a sponge attached to 10 different heads being pulled in different directions, says Kishore Singh.
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The popular Russian drink has become the country's number 1 drop of hard liquor, with trendy tipples like Absolut and Smirnoff overtaking traditional-blended whiskies such as Bell's, Teacher's and Famous Grouse. According to trade journal Off Licence News, vodka sales were up by 11 per cent to 747 million pounds in the year to April as compared to blended Scotch which rose by just one per cent to 742 million pounds.
'Local legend has it the West Indians were plied with copious amounts of Ireland's favourite Guinness whisky the night before the match in 1969, though no one is willing to go on record about it!' says Gulu Ezekiel.
According to a notification issued recently by the state government, local tax on imported liquor costing above Rs 2,000 per bottle will be at the rate of 30 per cent while those sold below Rs 2,000 will attract a tax of 20 per cent. Earlier, the local tax on imported whisky, wines and beer was a flat Rs 300, Rs 150 and Rs 30 per bottle respectively.
If you think that you can drown your sorrows by guzzling a bottle of whisky, you are wrong. If a new study is to be believed, alcoholic drinks do not erase, instead prolong, the bad memories.
As part of its consolidation plans in the Indian tequila market, Brown-Forman, makers of Jack Daniel's whisky, is mulling over introducing a host of brands, including Herradura, El Jimador and Don Eduardo in the country in a phased manner.
As an overnight producer of nearly 10 per cent of the world's Scotch whisky, Vijay Mallya has moved to a global liquor arena.
Mr Mallya's United Spirits, the third-largest spirits group in the world, acquires both a global footprint and a quality label.
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The acquisition is likely to be followed by the merger of Shaw Wallace & Company with group flagship United Spirits.
He's also enjoying a new level of corporate respect.
Radico Khaitan Ltd said it increases capacity of its distillery unit at Rampur from 45 million tonne liters to 60 million tonne liters per annum. The company launched Old Admiral VSOP brandy in Kerala market.
Pakistan cricket authorities said their players would not display logos of a whisky brand sponsor in the Super Series matches
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