McKinney Gets Whiskey Deal
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 12--DURHAM -- Brown-Forman's Southern Comfort brand awarded its interactive advertising account to McKinney, the Triangle's largest ad agency.
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Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc.'s  pact  to import InBev  brands such as Stella Artois gives  the U.S. brewer high-end beers it needs to compete, analysts  agree, but Wall Street is unsure how much the deal may help  Bud's profits.
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The company that makes the UK's best-selling malt whisky is being put up for sale by its family owners.
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Brewers Carlsberg and Heineken will buy beermaker Scottish & Newcastle for $15.3 billion, the companies said Friday.
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Tennessee, known more for its distinctive whiskey from Lynchburg, Tenn., has gained a new player in the distilled spirits market - vodka and rum.
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Business & money: Â· Drinks group signs Â£460m deal with Ketel OneÂ· Dutch vodka expected to cut into top seller's market
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The Cleveland Cavaliers picked up Drew Gooden's contract option for 2005-06, hoping the forward will take the spot vacated by departed free agent Carlos Boozer.
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The buyout for the ice manufacturer is on the rocks.
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Brewer Scottish & Newcastle said Thursday it was in talks with a view to being taken over by Danish group Carlsberg and Dutch peer Heineken for 7.8 billion pounds.
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Brown-Forman Corp., the maker of Jack Daniel&#39;s whiskey and Southern Comfort liqueur, said Monday that is buying the remaining 20 percent of Finlandia Vodka Worldwide Ltd.
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IF Xstrata&#39;s Scotch CEO Mick Davis thought he could get WMC Resources on the cheap he now knows otherwise. The Swiss miner is offering $7.4 billion, or $6.35 a share, for Australia&#39;s third biggest resources company.
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NASCAR teams struggling to finance cars with lucrative sponsorship deals now can begin negotiating with liquor companies after the stock car sanctioning body gave the go ahead Wednesday.
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Left tackle Bryant McKinnie signed a  seven-year contract extension with the Minnesota Vikings on  Saturday, on the same day he and team mate Fred Smoot were  fined by the National Football League for their part in a boat  party scandal last season.
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Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc.'s  pact to import InBev  brands such as Stella Artois gives the U.S. brewer high-end beers it needs to compete, analysts agree, but Wall Street is unsure how much the deal may help Bud's profits.
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No. 2 U.S. beermaker SABMiller's   move to combine American operations with No. 3 Molson  Coors  will likely be approved even though it will  increase market concentration, antitrust experts said.
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An Indian businessman is set to complete a deal to buy Scottish whisky firm Whyte and Mackay for Â£550m.
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The family that controls Glenmorangie, the best-selling Scotch whisky in Britain, announced Tuesday it wants to sell the 161-year-old company.