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...anti-oil" portfolio, as Miller calls it, should rally sharply if the price of crude slumps. But will it happen in time for him to beat the market for the 15th straight year? Miller knows the odds are against him. If only he had bought those oil and gas stocks, he laments, "we'd be nicely ahead of the market now." For once, he understands how hapless the market makes the rest of us feel, but in Miller's case, that lesson in humility may prove as ephemeral as the gathering gloom over the price...
Michel Bord, the CEO of Pernod Ricard USA. It's about the transformational growth of a French spirits company born of wormwood and anise to a "gentlemanly" global gorilla with a premium portfolio of wines and spirits centered on 14 major brands...
...ride the industry's wave of consolidation and, in the process, doubled its U.S. sales. Pernod thinks it can lift sales growth of the acquired brands--including Malibu, Kahlua, Ballantine's and Beefeater--from 3% to match the 9% rate Pernod is getting out of the rest of its portfolio...
...year-old--boosting sales 17% over the past six months. In the U.S., where tequila is the fastest-growing premium category, the company will launch Tèzon (named for the stone that pounds the agave plant in production) at $60 a bottle in January. Its wine portfolio, including Jacob's Creek, surges with more than 150 of Allied's Spanish wineries, particularly in the Rioja region. "Those are going to be one of the hottest segments for wine in the next decade because of value and the depth of variety," says industry expert Paul Pacult...
...probably in a California reservoir where the bigmouths grow to 20 lbs., some angler will reel in a lunker that will be worth a million FLW bucks, televised coast to coast. "I didn't create this need. I recognized it," says Jacobs, who has far bigger businesses in his portfolio that could occupy his time. But he's standing on a dock in Hot Springs at 6 a.m. on a Saturday, watching professional fishing. "I have a passion for it," he says. "This is my story." A fish story, as it were...