Fetzer, a unit of beverage giant Brown-Forman, likes the environmentally friendly sheen that comes from using solar power.
The most likely white knights are Brown-Forman (owner of Jack Daniels whiskey) and Constellation Brands (Hardy wine, Corona beer).
So before launching its own premium whiskey, Brown-Forman set about hunting for a suitably romantic place to make it.
Brands (Taco Bell, KFC) and Brown-Forman (the spirits company behind Jack Daniel's and Woodford Reserve), have fifth-floor "Finish Line" suites.
Among the top selling brands of spirituous liquor is Jack Daniels Tennessee Whiskey, which is made by Brown-Forman (NYSE: BF-B).
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Brown-Forman has less exposure in Europe, than it did four years ago.
Brown-Forman, for its Don Eduardo brand, promotes the fact that Don Eduardo Orendain was a real landowner who worked his own agave fields.
Bacardi or Brown-Forman (owner of Jack Daniels whiskey) or Constellation Brands (another American drinks group), would each find it hard to raise the money.
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Diageo is busy absorbing some of its other acquisitions of recent years, and Brown-Forman and Beam have market caps of 13 billion and 10 billion, respectively.
It should shave, at minimum, tens of thousands of dollars a year off its electric bill, says Susanne Zechiel, manager of facility resources for Brown-Forman's California wineries.
Fetzer, a unit of beverage giant Brown-Forman (nyse: BFB - news - people ), likes the environmentally friendly sheen that comes from using solar power.
Brown-Forman (BF-A) announced that net income fell by 37 percent versus the same period last year, when the company realized a gain on its sale of Fetzer Vineyards.
Azer mentions how the company is most popular in southern European countries, which are less stable, while Brown-Forman is more active in the stronger economies of Germany, France and the United Kingdom.
Jim Beam, Fortune's biggest spirits brand (others include Maker's Mark and Old Crow), would allow Diageo to compete more effectively with Brown-Forman, the owner of Jack Daniels, in the lucrative market for bourbon, an American style of whisky.
Two years ago Brown-Forman, the Louisville conglomerate that owns best-selling brands such as Jack Daniels (which is not strictly a bourbon because it comes from Tennessee), Early Times and Old Forester, decided to introduce a bourbon at the very top of the range.
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