date:Jan 17, 2014
Suntory Holdings' high-multiple acquisition of Beam Inc boosts the Japanese group's U.S. market share, but the U.S. bourbon maker's sales and distribution networks in Asia and other emerging markets may yet be the deal's trump card.
We will go after (emerging markets) together, Shingo Torii, Suntory's senior executive vice president, told reporters at a media event in Osaka earlier this week.
Creating new value for whisky was the aim (of the Beam acquisition). Of course people care about the f