What does this article suggest to us about how people should

What does this article suggest to us about how people should go about to truly maximize their level of utility from their limited incomes?

Even so, Suntory is facing “big challenges,” says Jeremy Cunnington, Euromonitor’s alcoholic-beverage analyst. “They can carry on squeezing growth out of core markets, but it’s a tough thing for them to do. And abroad, they’re coming quite late to the party.” The world’s two largest liquor companies, Diageo PLC of Britain (Johnnie Walker Scotch, Smirnoff vodka) and Pernod Ricard SA of France (Absolut vodka, Chivas Regal Scotch) “have been working very hard,” he says.

Global aspirations

Suntory had been looking to break out of the Japanese market for years. Founder Shinjiro Torii, an Osaka shop owner, in the 1930s created the first commercially successful Japanese whisky, modeled after Scotch. Over the years, the company diversified into a sprawling drinks empire that includes whiskies, liqueurs, canned highballs, wine, soft drinks and tea. Although Suntory made a few overseas acquisitions, including the $2.8 billion purchase of Orangina Schweppes Group in 2009, more than 90% of its spirits sales before the Beam deal came from Japan, a troubling prospect given the nation’s sluggish economy and aging population.

It saw Jim Beam as a ticket out. In the 1930s, James B. Beam had set up a distillery and turned a nearly 150-year-old family recipe into Jim Beam Kentucky Straight Bourbon. Beam expanded aggressively overseas after World War II. In 1968, the family’s business partner sold the company to a conglomerate that eventually became Fortune Brands. A 2005 deal added Maker’s Mark bourbon, Canadian Club whisky, Sauza tequila and Courvoisier cognac. In 2011, under pressure from activist hedge-fund investor William Ackman , Fortune Brands sold or spun off its non-spirits businesses, and Beam became a publicly-traded spirits company.

In April of last year, Suntory acquired Beam, where sales had been climbing, at a 25% premium to Beam’s stock price. The deal, valued at $16 billion when debt is included, gave it the world’s top-selling bourbon and a global distribution network—a world-wide sales force of more than 2,200 across the company and its distributors.

Suntory decided to keep the headquarters in the U.S. and have the U.S.-based management team, led by British executive Matt Shattock, run the global liquor operation, including its Japanese brands.

Solution

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