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Allied Domecq PLC was an international company
Corporation

A corporation is a legal entity separate from the persons that form it. It is a legal entity owned by individual stockholders. In British tradition it is the term designating a body corporate, where it can be either a corporation sole or a corporation aggregate ....
, headquartered in Bristol
Bristol

Bristol is a City status in the United Kingdom, unitary authority area and Ceremonial counties of England in South West England, west of London, and east of Cardiff....
, UK that operated spirits
Distilled beverage

A distilled beverage, liquor, or spirit is a drinkable liquid containing ethanol that is produced by means of distillation Fermentation grain, fruit, or vegetables....
, wine
Wine

Wine is an alcoholic beverage often made of fermentation grape juice. The natural chemical balance of grapes is such that they can ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes or other nutrients....
, and quick service restaurant businesses. It was once a FTSE 100 Index
FTSE 100 Index

The FTSE 100 Index is a share index of the 100 most highly market capitalisation UK company listed on the London Stock Exchange. The index began on 3 January 1984 with a base level of 1000; the highest value reached to date is 6950.6, on 30 December 1999....
 constituent but has been acquired by Pernod Ricard
Pernod Ricard

Pernod Ricard is a France company that produces alcoholic beverages. The company's most famous products, Pernod Anise and Ricard Pastis, are both pastis, and often referred to as simply Ricard or Pernod....
.

ed Domecq was the result of a 1994 merger between Allied Lyons and Pedro Domecq. Allied Lyons was the result of a 1978 merger between Allied Breweries
Allied Breweries

Allied Breweries was the result of a 1959 merger between Ind Coope, Ansells, and Taylor Walker & Co..In 1978 Allied Breweries merged with the food and catering group J....
 and the food and catering
Catering

Catering is the business of providing foodservice at a remote site....
 group J. Lyons and Co.

In early 2005, a takeover bid for the company was launched by French-based rival Pernod Ricard
Pernod Ricard

Pernod Ricard is a France company that produces alcoholic beverages. The company's most famous products, Pernod Anise and Ricard Pastis, are both pastis, and often referred to as simply Ricard or Pernod....
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Allied Domecq PLC was an international company
Corporation

A corporation is a legal entity separate from the persons that form it. It is a legal entity owned by individual stockholders. In British tradition it is the term designating a body corporate, where it can be either a corporation sole or a corporation aggregate ....
, headquartered in Bristol
Bristol

Bristol is a City status in the United Kingdom, unitary authority area and Ceremonial counties of England in South West England, west of London, and east of Cardiff....
, UK that operated spirits
Distilled beverage

A distilled beverage, liquor, or spirit is a drinkable liquid containing ethanol that is produced by means of distillation Fermentation grain, fruit, or vegetables....
, wine
Wine

Wine is an alcoholic beverage often made of fermentation grape juice. The natural chemical balance of grapes is such that they can ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes or other nutrients....
, and quick service restaurant businesses. It was once a FTSE 100 Index
FTSE 100 Index

The FTSE 100 Index is a share index of the 100 most highly market capitalisation UK company listed on the London Stock Exchange. The index began on 3 January 1984 with a base level of 1000; the highest value reached to date is 6950.6, on 30 December 1999....
 constituent but has been acquired by Pernod Ricard
Pernod Ricard

Pernod Ricard is a France company that produces alcoholic beverages. The company's most famous products, Pernod Anise and Ricard Pastis, are both pastis, and often referred to as simply Ricard or Pernod....
.

History

Allied Domecq was the result of a 1994 merger between Allied Lyons and Pedro Domecq. Allied Lyons was the result of a 1978 merger between Allied Breweries
Allied Breweries

Allied Breweries was the result of a 1959 merger between Ind Coope, Ansells, and Taylor Walker & Co..In 1978 Allied Breweries merged with the food and catering group J....
 and the food and catering
Catering

Catering is the business of providing foodservice at a remote site....
 group J. Lyons and Co.

In early 2005, a takeover bid for the company was launched by French-based rival Pernod Ricard
Pernod Ricard

Pernod Ricard is a France company that produces alcoholic beverages. The company's most famous products, Pernod Anise and Ricard Pastis, are both pastis, and often referred to as simply Ricard or Pernod....
 SA. Pernod Ricard successfully completed acquisition on 26 July 2005 and sold off the overlapping spirits brands to U.S.-based competitor Fortune Brands
Fortune Brands

Fortune Brands, is a holding company founded in 1969 as American Brands and later re-named in 1997. The corporate headquarters are in Deerfield, Illinois in the United States....
 and British giant Diageo
Diageo

Diageo plc is the largest multinational Alcoholic beverage in the world. The Company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and has American Depositary Receipts listed on the New York Stock Exchange....
. On 12 December 2005, Pernod Ricard announced that it had agreed to sell the restaurant businesses (Dunkin' Brands
Dunkin' Brands

Dunkin' Brands runs several chains of fast food....
) to a consortium of three US
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 private equity
Private equity

In finance, private equity is an asset class consisting of Stock securities in operating companies that are not publicly traded on a stock exchange....
 firms (Thomas H. Lee Partners, the Carlyle Group
Carlyle Group

The Carlyle Group is a global private equity investment firm, based in Washington, D.C., with more than $91.5 billion of equity capital under management....
 and Bain Capital LLP
Bain Capital

Bain Capital LLC is a Boston-based private equity firm founded in 1984 by partners from the consulting firm Bain & Company. Originally conceived as a leveraged buyout and venture capital funding, Bain Capital today manages approximately $80 billion in assets, and its strategies include private equity & venture capital as well as long/short pu...
) for $
United States dollar

The United States dollar is the unit of currency of the United States and was defined by the Coinage Act of 1792 to be between 371 and 416 grains of silver ....
2.43 billion. The closing of the sale occurred on 1 March 2006.

Portfolio at time of takeover

Allied Domecq's spirits division operated a combination of nine core global brands, plus a selection of local market leaders. Their product portfolio included:
  • Beefeater
    Beefeater Gin

    Beefeater Gin is a brand of gin bottled, and distributed in the United Kingdom, by the company of James Burrough. It is a 47% alcohol product in the US and New Zealand, 37.1% alcohol in Australia, and a 40% alcohol product elsewhere in the world ....
     gin
    Gin

    Gin is a distilled beverage flavoured with juniper berries. Distilled gin is made by redistilling neutral grain spirit and raw cane sugar which has been flavoured with juniper berries....
  • Ballantine's
    Ballantine's

    Ballantine's is a range of Blended whiskey Scotch whisky distilled by George Ballantine & Son Ltd in Dumbarton, Scotland.The Ballantine's flavor is dependent on these 50 single malts, four single grains and in particular the fingerprint malts from Miltonduff and Glenburgie....
     whisky
    Whisky

    Whisky or whiskey refers to a broad category of Distilled beverages that are distilled from Fermentation grain Mashing and aged in wooden casks ....
  • Teachers Highland Cream whisky
  • Laphroaig
    Laphroaig

    Laphroaig Distillery is a Scotch whisky distillation situated on the south coast of the isle of Islay....
    , a malt whisky from Islay
    Islay

    Islay , a Scotland island, known as "The Queen of the Hebrides" , is the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides. It lies in Argyll just to the west of Jura, Scotland and around north of the Irish coast, which can be seen on a clear day....
  • Courvoisier
    Courvoisier

    Courvoisier is a brand of Cognac . The company is now based in the town of Jarnac in the Charente department. Although no evidence exists that Courvoisier cognac was the favorite drink of Napoleon Bonaparte, who died in 1821, before Courvoisier was officially established by Felix Courvoisier in 1835, the company website claims the following...
     cognac
    Cognac

    Cognac is a commune in France in the France d?partement in France of Charente, of which it is a sous-pr?fecture. The inhabitants of the town are known as Cogna?ais....
  • Canadian Club
    Canadian Club

    Canadian Club is a brand of whisky from Canada. Popularly known as C.C., Canadian Club began production in 1858. It was established by Hiram Walker, and was known as Walker?s Club Whiskey....
     whisky
  • Kahlúa
    Kahlúa

    Kahl?a is a well known Mexico coffee-flavored liqueur. It is heavy and sweet, with a distinct taste of coffee, from which it is made. Kahlua also contains sugar, corn syrup and vanilla bean....
     coffee liqueur
    Liqueur

    A liqueur is an alcoholic beverage that has been flavored with fruit, herbs, Nut , spices, flowers, or cream and bottled with added sugar. Liqueurs are typically quite sweet; they are usually not aged for long but may have resting periods during their production to allow flavors to marry....
  • Malibu
    Malibu Rum

    Malibu Rum is a rum made in Barbados with natural coconut extract. The alcohol content by volume is 21.0% . The brand is owned by Pernod Ricard....
    , a coconut
    Coconut

    The Coconut Palm is a member of the Family Arecaceae . It is the only species in the genus Cocos, and is a large palm, growing to 30 m tall, with pinnate leaf 4-6 m long, pinnae 60-90 cm long; old leaves break away cleanly leaving the trunk smooth....
    -flavoured rum
    Rûm

    R?m, also Roum or Rhum , is a very indefinite term used at different times in the Muslim world to refer to the Balkans and Anatolia generally, and for the Byzantine Empire in particular, for the Seljuk Sultanate of R?m in Asia Minor, and for Greeks inhabiting Ottoman Empire or modern Turkey territory as well as for Greek Cypriots....
    -based spirit
  • Maker's Mark
    Maker's Mark

    Maker?s Mark is a handcrafted, small-batch bourbon whiskey distillation in Loretto, Kentucky. It is sold in unusually-shaped squarish bottles, which are sealed with red wax....
    , a Kentucky
    Kentucky

    The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a U.S. state located in the East Central United States of America. Kentucky is normally included in the group of Southern United States , but it is uncommonly included, geographically and culturally, in the Midwestern United States....
     bourbon whiskey
    Bourbon whiskey

    Bourbon is an United States whiskey, a type of distilled beverage, made primarily from maize and named for Bourbon County, Kentucky. It has been produced since the 18th century....
  • Montana Wines
    Montana Wines

    Montana Wines is New Zealand's largest wine company, owning vineyards in Gisborne, Hawkes Bay, Marlborough, and Waipara....
    , a large New Zealand
    New Zealand

    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
     wine producer.
  • Mumm
    Mumm

    G.H. Mumm & Cie, situated in Reims in northern France, is one of the largest Champagne producers worldwide. It was founded by three brothers, Jacobus, Gottlieb and Phillip Mumm, German people winemakers from the Rhine valley and G....
     champagne
  • Perrier Jouet champagne
  • Don Pedro
    Don Pedro

    Don Pedro may refer to:* Don Pedro Colley , American actor* Don Pedro de Alvarado , Spanish conquistador* Don Pedro Gil de Mogoll?n, Lord of Arroyo del Peche , Spanish nobleman...
     Brandy
    Brandy

    Brandy is a distilled_beverage produced by Distillation wine, the wine having first been produced by Fermentation grapes. Brandy contains 36%?60% alcohol by volume and is typically taken as an after-dinner drink....
  • Stolichnaya
    Stolichnaya

    Stolichnaya is a Russian vodka produced from wheat and rye grains in Russia....
     vodka
    Vodka

    Vodka is a distilled beverage. It is a clear liquid which consists of mostly water and ethanol purified by distillation ? often multiple distillation ? from a Fermentation substance, such as cereal , potatoes or sugar beet molasses, and an insignificant amount of other substances such as flavorings or unintended impurities....
  • Tia Maria
    Tia Maria

    Tia Maria is the brand name of an alcoholic drink produced by the industry giant Pernod Ricard through their Malibu Rum-Kahl?a International subsidiary, Tia Maria is a "liqueur spirit" which resembles a coffee liqueur such as Kahl?a, which is also produced by Pernod Ricard....
     liqueur
  • Cockburn's Port
  • Harvey's Bristol Cream sherry
    Sherry

    Sherry is a fortified wine made from white grapes that are grown near the town of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. In Spanish language, it is called Vino de Jerez....


Brands acquired by Fortune Brands:
  • Sauza tequila
  • Courvoisier cognac
  • Canadian Club whisky
  • Clos du Bois and other Sonoma and Napa wine brands
  • Laphroaig malt whisky
  • Maker's Mark bourbon
  • Teacher’s Scotch whisky
  • Cockburn port
  • Harveys sherries
  • Larios gin
  • DYC whisky
  • Fundador Spanish brandy
  • Centenario
    Centenario

    Centenario is a Mexican bullion coin first minted in 1921 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Mexico's independence from Spain. The coin are not actually intended to be used as currency,...
     Spanish brandy
  • Kuemmerling German bitters