Slugger O'Toole: I'll take mine neat, thanks

The story, as detailed in the NYT -

Pernod Ricard has a deal to buy Allied Domecq for about $14 billion, but a second bidding team, led by Constellation Brands, has expressed interest in the company. Both sides have been talking to Diageo in recent weeks in hopes of bolstering their offers.
Diageo has agreed to buy the Old Bushmills Distillery Company of Ireland from Pernod Ricard for 295 million euros ($362 million). In addition, Diageo has an option to buy Montana wines, a brand Allied Domecq owns in New Zealand, for approximately 469 million euros ($575 million), if Pernod Ricard is successful in its takeover.

In return, Diageo, based in London, has promised "not to enter into discussions with any third party" in connection with acquisition of shares or businesses owned by Allied Domecq, Pernod Ricard said in a statement.[emphasis added]

And it's not, necessarily, over yet.. as the NYT also points out at the end of the article

European regulators said on Monday that they needed an additional two weeks to review Pernod Ricard's offer because of the new Diageo involvement.

OK, just a splash of water then..

What is the DUP doing trying to protect the employment of the Devil's buttermilk brewers

DCB,

Whisky/Whiskey is distilled not brewed you fool.

Of course your right, it's still the stuff of the Devil as far as the free p's are concerned.

One sip of it and your likely to be line dancing

If I may, I'd like to pose a question related to this. Ian Paisley Jr is quoted on BBC's website as saying:

"If the brand develops and grows then one would expect to see development at Bushmills and more job opportunities there," he said.

"I would not want to see the brand being taken out of Northern Ireland as this prestigious brand has a distinctive link to County Antrim.

"I will be meeting with the company management to hear at first hand what this purchase offer means for the local economy."

Do readers of Slugger think that politicians should concern themselves so directly in the affairs of individual companies (as opposed to ensuring there is a strong economic basis to support such companies)? Should they assume to have a say in the decisions made by such companies, as the quote implies?


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