Alcoholic Beverages Industry Competitors

Beijing Shunxin Agriculture produces and exports spirits and vegetable and fruit juices throughout Asia and beyond. Its spirits are marketed under the Huadeng and Niulanshan brand names, while its juices are typically branded as Qianshou products. The company additionally processes pork and raises livestock....

It's been a long, long time since Messrs. Berry and Rudd took up their premises on St. James's Street in London. Berry Bros. & Rudd, which touts itself as the oldest wine and spirits merchant in Britain, has sold its wares from the same headquarters shop for more than 300 years....

C&C Group (also known as Cantrell & Cochrane) is the beverage company behind such brands as Bulmers cider. C&C also exports its Magners brand cider to Europe, UK, and the US; its Carolans Irish Cream Liqueur, Frangelico liqueur, and Tullamore Dew Irish whiskey are imported to more than 80 markets outside Ireland....

Castle Brands hopes to earn a king's ransom selling imported distilled spirits. Among its brands are Boru vodka (accounts for a third of sales), Sea Wynde rum, and Knappogue Castle whiskey. The company also owns 60% of the Celtic Crossing brand of Irish liqueur....

There's something for just about every thirst at Constellation Europe. A subsidiary of Constellation Brands, Constellation Europe produces wine, flavored alcoholic beverages, cider, and bottled water. Available in approximately 50 European countries, the company's brands include Arbor Mist; Babycham; Blackthorn; Diamond White; Gaymer's Olde English and K ciders; Grants of St James's Wines; Old England, Pony, Red C, and Snoball alcopops; K Vodka Ice; QC; Stowells of Chelsea wine; Stone's Green Ginger Wine; Stowells of Chelsea; and Strathmore bottled waters (the UK's #1 bottled water)....

Duvel has a thing for blondes. Born in 1871, the Belgian brewer specializes in blonde, bottle-conditioned, high-fermentation beers that are enjoyed in more than 40 countries. Its brands include Maredsous, Bel Pils, Steendonk, Bernard, Ommegang, Vedett, and flagship Duvel (originally named Victory Ale to commemorate the end of World War I)....

Some may consider Eckes & Stock International the wild one of the Eckes AG family. Unlike its sister company juice-maker Eckes-Granin, this subsidiary sells wine and spirits. Eckes & Stock manufactures and sells more than 60 brands in 40 countries, including Austria, Italy, and the US....

You could say that Eldridge Pope is the elder statesman of the British hospitality business. Founded in 1837, Eldridge, Pope & Co. operates about 135 pubs and inns in England and Wales, primarily in the south and west of England. During the past several years, the company sold off its high-street Toad bars or converted them into their Que Pasa Bar format....

Empresas Polar is the king of beers in Venezuela. Its Polar beer is one of that country's most popular brews. Empresas Polar also sells both domestic and imported wines and distributes PepsiCo beverages (through its Pepsi-Cola Venezuela subsidiary)....

The North American colonists may have had a bit of applejack for breakfast, but don't think it was a sweet cereal. Applejack is a brandy distilled from -- you guessed it -- apples, and Robert Laird was among the first to make it in the New World. He established the Laird distillery in 1780, and today the ninth generation of the Laird family continues to make applejack at Laird & Co....

Majestic Wine lets even commoners drink like kings. The company sells mixed cases of wine to the public through its more than 120 warehouse stores spread across Britain. Majestic allows customers to order wines in the stores or through its online site. The company uses its own fleet of vans to offer free delivery throughout Britain....

Merrydown would like you to have a merry time with its alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. The company's Merrydown division makes different types of hard cider and juice, including Merrydown Vintage, a premium cider made from dessert and culinary apples, and Pulse Cider, a premium white cider....

Saybrex International exports beer, wine, spirits, liqueurs, fruit juices, and snack foods worldwide. The company specializes in supplying whiskies -- including rare 44-year-old single malts -- tequilas, rums, and cognacs to duty-free shops at airports and other locations....

Suntory Group is the holding company for a large number of subsidiaries around the world that do everything from distill whisky to research new antibiotics. The group has three operating units: the beverage and food unit; the spirits, wine and beer unit; and the foodservice and business development unit....

Barton Incorporated (doing business as Barton Brands and Barton Beers) is one smooth company. It sells more than 185 brands of beverages, including its best-known label, Black Velvet. It also offers other Canadian and Scotch whiskeys, bourbon, gin, rum, tequila, vodka, and frozen, no-mixing-needed drinks such as Chi-Chi's margaritas and piña coladas....

Lion Nathan needed more room to grow than its native New Zealand could offer; so the brewer moved over to that larger country across the down under water. It was a good move: In Australia, Lion Nathan is the #2 brewer, with more than 40% of the market, behind the Foster's Brewing Group....

It is thanks to the hard-working folks at Martini & Rossi that Secret Agent 007 gets to sound oh-so-smartly stylish when ordering his favorite drink. The company, from which the quintessentially "cool" mixture of gin and vermouth takes its name, was founded in Italy in 1863 as Martini, Sola & C....

Mercian would like you to drink up. The company produces and distributes alcoholic beverages, including wine, whiskey, sake, and shochu (a liquor distilled from sweet potatoes or rice). In addition to its flagship Château Mercian wines, the company's products include low-alcohol Original Peachtree Fizz and low-priced Bon Marche wines....

Bill Murray clued Americans in to Japan's oldest whiskey maker with his commercial for Suntory in the movie Lost in Translation. ("It's Suntory Time!") Suntory Limited. is a 100-year-old firm that produced Japan's first whiskey, Kakubin. Its other spirit brands include Hibiki and Yamazaki....

Until July 2002 Taiwan Tobacco & Liquor Corporation (TTL), formerly Taiwan Tobacco and Wine, was the only company that could make authentic Taiwanese beer. The former monopoly, which was founded in 1947, transformed into a corporate body in line with Taiwan's entry into the World Trade Organization....