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Luxury Rum launched
Published: Thursday | November 26, 2009
Daviot Kelly, Staff Reporter
The juicy pan-seared fillet mignon with slow roasted rosemary potatoes and vegetables of the market sautéed in garlic butter. – photos by Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
J. Wray and Nephew launched its new luxury rum last Thursday with a delectable seven-course dinner at the Terra Nova All-Suite [...]

Tanduay joins fund-raising bandwagon
Companies
Wednesday, 25 November 2009 18:50
LIQUOR firm Tanduay Distillers Inc. announced on Wednesday that it plans to sell P5 billion worth of retail bonds to fund spending activities and to refinance maturing obligations.
In a filing to the stock exchange, parent company Tanduay Holdings Inc. said the 5-year fixed-rate bonds will be registered with [...]

McDowell to use soccer platform for promoting rum brand
Press Trust of India / New Delhi November 22, 2009, 15:41 IST
Vijay Mallya-promoted United Spirits is focusing on football as platform for promoting McDowell’s Celebration rum.
The company, which spends 50 per cent of its branding budget through sports, is looking at growing sales of Celebration by 12 [...]

Outages dim Chavez popularity
Power failures, unpaid civil servants and falling oil revenue play havoc with support for the Venezuela leader.

By Chris Kraul
November 21, 2009
Reporting from El Consejo, Venezuela – Power outages are hitting Henrique Vollmer’s rum distillery several times a week, interrupting production, damaging equipment and jeopardizing the jobs of his 375 workers.
President Hugo Chavez [...]

Rum Rescue Calls Out to Captain Morgan
TITAN Salvage’s and Crowley Maritime’s Herculean Efforts get Shipment to Safety
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PENNSAUKEN, N.J., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ — Captain Morgan abandoned rehearsals for a very a special music awards event on the west coast to welcome to safety a barge containing 90,000 gallons of his finest rum that is to [...]

Monday, November 16, 2009
Congressional Rum Fight Escalates
By Rich Edson, Washington Correspondent
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With tax revenue and local pride at stake, the U.S. Virgin Islands escalated its multibillion-dollar rum fight Monday, harshly responding to charges of “unreasonable and excessive” corporate subsidizing leveled by the Puerto Rico congressional delegation last week.
“These disturbing attacks were launched solely because of [...]

Lawmakers lean on Pelosi and Rangel as rum squabble mounts
By Susan Crabtree – 11/12/09 The Hill
The tug-of-war between Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands over rum taxes has grown more intense in the wake of House passage of the healthcare bill.
Puerto Rico’s top supporters in the lower chamber this week fired off letters to [...]

Rum with a punch
Grenadian spirit so potent it’s banned from airplanes
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By DIANE SLAWYCH, SPECIAL TO SUN MEDIA

One of many beautiful windswept beaches on the Caribbean island of Grenada. (Toronto Sun/Diane Slawych)
ST. GEORGE, Grenada — There are lots of souvenirs you can bring back from a trip to the spice island of Grenada, but [...]

Interview: Don Navarro, master rum-maker
It was love at first sight when former professor of thermodynamics Don Navarro discovered rum-making – and it’s an enduring affair. He’s now the head master rum-maker for Havana Club. Here he tells Helen Ochyra about his passion for the spirit and why it’s an expression of Cuban culture
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One of biggest rum brands in the world, Tanduay is little known outside the Philippines, but its annual calendar is one of the effective but non-pc ways it makes its presence known back home.
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Nina Jose is Tanduay’s 2010 Calendar Girl
Nov 10, 2009
Written By: Monica Brava
After Katrina Halili, Ehra Madrigal [...]