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Old 01-14-2014, 10:29 AM
 
Location: Michigan
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Jim Beam, Maker’s Mark, and Knob Creek bourbons will soon have a second home in Japan. Beam, the owner of the whiskeys and the world’s fourth-biggest liquor company by sales, has reached a deal to be purchased by Osaka’s Suntory, a family-owned liquor company that’s No. 15 worldwide, the Wall Street Journal reports. The $13.6 billion cash deal is poised to be the third biggest the liquor industry has ever seen, as well as the third-biggest overseas buy by a Japanese firm.

Japanese Firm Buys Jim Beam for $13.6B - $13.6B deal set to be 3rd-biggest in industry history
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Old 01-14-2014, 01:44 PM
 
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I can get it for much less than that at the liquor store down the street.
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Old 01-14-2014, 01:48 PM
 
Location: where you sip the tea of the breasts of the spinsters of Utica
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Yeah, I thought the title said "13.68" at first too!

Not my favorite bourbon.
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Old 01-14-2014, 01:52 PM
 
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Yeah, I thought the title said "13.68" at first too!

Not my favorite bourbon.
I'm a vodka man, personally. I typically only drink scotch or bourbon after someone I know has died. Don't know why. I just do.
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Old 01-16-2014, 08:05 AM
 
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Wow.

No longer American owned. No longer family owned.

It seems that this is inevitable - family business succeeds, grows, and is then absorbed into a larger corporation. I was recently reading about the Wanamaker business and its multiple changes in ownership - all that we have today is the building in Philly. Sad.
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