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He said the tariffs on entry of European spirits, including Scotch, into the Indian market should only come down "if there is a level playing field". After more than three years of work on a free trade agreement between India and the European Union, the two sides have set spring of this year as a target date for resolving outstanding issues, and the high tariff on Scotch whisky is a major one.
Dr Mallya wants Indians to be able to describe their exported spirit as whisky, which he says is being blocked in Europe. Business Scotland is available by podcast.
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The company markets beer under the Kingfisher brand , and owns various other brands of alcoholic beverages. It also launched Kingfisher Airlines , an airline in India whose operation has been halted after problems in ,that led to its licence being revoked by the DGCA. The company chairman is Vijay Mallya , who had been a member of the Indian Parliament. Recently, UB financed a takeover of the spirits business of the rival Shaw-Wallace company, giving it a majority share of India's spirits business.
The Group took its initial lessons in manufacturing beer from South India based British breweries. At the age of 22, Vittal Mallya was elected as the company's first Indian director in After a year, he replaced R G N Price as the chairman of the company.
Rangarajan took over from R G N Price. United Breweries made its initial impact by manufacturing bulk beer for the British troops before independence, which was transported in huge barrels or "Hogsheads". Kingfisher, the group's most visible and profitable brand, made a modest entry in the sixties. First was the addition of McDowell as one of the Group subsidiaries, a move which helped United Breweries to extend its portfolio to wines and spirits business.
Strategically, the Group moved into agro-based industries and medicines when Mallya acquired Kissan Products and formed a long-term relationship with Hoechst AG of Germany to create the Indian pharmaceutical company now known as Aventis Pharma , the Indian subsidiary of the global pharma major Sanofi-Aventis.
The Pegasus , which is the symbol of the United Breweries, first found its place as the Group logo in Then, the Helladic horse — associated with beer and nectar in Greek mythology — carried a beer cask between the wings, ostensibly because beer formed the core operations of the Group.
Later, the beer cask was removed to represent the Group's multifaceted operations. Now, it is just the horse. Sales were expected to exceed 70 million cases during the fiscal year —06, making the Group the third-largest manufacturer of spirits products in the world, [4] after Diageo and Pernod Ricard.
In addition, USL is one of only three in the world to own seven millionaire brands and at least five brands rated by Drinks International, UK, to be amongst the ten fastest growing brands in the world in their respective categories. The flagship brand, Kingfisher , is now sold in over 52 countries worldwide, having received many accolades for its quality.
In , the Fergusons left Jura because of a dispute with the laird. No information about the distillery are then available. During the Great War, it was abandoned and left to decay and the roofs were later removed to avoid paying rents and it became a ruin.
In the , Robin Fletcher, the owner of Ardlussa Estate and Riley-Smith owner of Jura House and Ardfin Estate, got together to see if they could restart the distillery and provide work to the islanders.
They raised financial backing eventually, mostly from Scottish and Newcastle Breweries, to build the distillery and rebuilt the distillery between and under the name Jura Distillery Co.
On April 26 th , spirit ran through the stills for the first time. The number of stills was increased from 2 to 4 in Whyte and Mackay was subsequently sold to Kyndal in Source: www.
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