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...liquor arm United Spirits, the biggest whisky maker in India, and the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) have been doing a brisk trade in bitter remarks, each charging the other with unfairly blocking its exports. Hardly the spirit, given that "scotch whisky is enjoying its best growth prospects for a generation," according to Alberto Gavazzi, global brands director for Diageo, the producer of Johnnie Walker...
...nearly 20 million last year, but it is still a tiny sliver, less than 1% of the overall whisky market. Scotch sales are stifled by punishing taxes and duties on imported spirits and wines--totaling anywhere from 200% to 550%. Gavin Hewitt, chief executive of the SWA, describes the charges as "discriminatory" and "pure protectionism...
...head of the third biggest spirits producer in the world, Mallya, a flamboyant, bejeweled billionaire, is in a position to be the arbiter of peace in the whisky wars--or to mix it up further. Last year Mallya was so incensed by the SWA's whisky edicts that he called a press conference to vent. "This imposition of British imperialism is unacceptable," he said. Maybe he'll tell the SWA so himself at its next board meeting. Now that he owns 9% of scotch production, he is eligible to join the group. "I'm sure the rest of the industry...
According to senior Emiliano Huet-Vaughn, one of the protestors, SWA believes the University will succumb to the pressure of negative press and potentially deferred recruits, and that administrators will be forced to effect change...
According to Washington University’s official press release to the media, “a collegial, informative meeting” was held yesterday between members of SWA and the administrators to discuss their concerns. Delays in discussion had occurred this week, administrators said, because they had not yet thoroughly read the “Code of Conduct” delivered to them by SWA last Friday...