May 9- A small-batch vodka made in Austin, Texas, has found its way onto one of the world's biggest airlines. Tito's Handmade Vodka, created by geologist and geophysicist Bert "Tito" Beveridge, is now the exclusive vodka supplier to United Airlines, the companies are set to announce on Friday.
April 8- Poland's Central European Distribution Corp, seeking to reduce its debt load, has filed for a pre-packaged bankruptcy that will give Russian businessman Roustam Tariko full control of the vodka producer, a court filing showed.
*South Africa is world's eighth largest wine producer. STELLENBOSCH, South Africa, March 26- At South Africa's Rostberg and Co., green bottles filled with a ruby liquid clink as they march along a conveyor belt, destined for wine-lovers from Paris to Shanghai.
An online poll of 1,538 people conducted March 4-8 by Reuters/ Ipsos found that two-thirds of adults say they are cutting their monthly spending and almost all of the rest say their spending is little changed.
March 6- Worldwide demand for its Jack Daniel's whiskey helped U.S. distiller Brown-Forman Corp to beat Wall Street profit estimates for a third consecutive quarter, and the company said full-year sales would rise. Brown-Forman also reported a surge in sales of whiskey to Russia and other emerging markets over the last nine months.
NEW YORK, March 5- About an hour after the Dow Jones industrial average hit a record high on Tuesday, Overland Park, Kansas- based financial adviser Brad Stratton got an e-mail from a client asking how she could "make hay while the sun shines." Stratton, a former Merrill Lynch broker who set up his own firm last year, said he's been fielding a lot of such calls lately.
*Province of Ontario produces most of Canada's icewine. BEAMSVILLE, Ontario, Jan 22- In the Ontario town of Beamsville, about 40 kilometers west of Niagara Falls, a small crowd of bundled-up figures crouched in a moonlit vineyard on a frigid January night, picking a crop of hard-frozen Gewurztraminer grapes.
*Guoco Group surges on privatisation bid. HONG KONG, Dec 12- Hong Kong shares rose to a 16- month closing high on Wednesday, widening their outperformance over wobbly mainland peers as stepped-up merger activity and a strong showing overnight on Wall Street encouraged investors to extend a recent rally.
HONG KONG, Dec 12- China shares recovered from earlier losses to close higher on Wednesday as financial stocks and liquor producer Kweichow Moutai led an afternoon rebound. The CSI300 closed up 0.4 percent at 2,267.77. The Shanghai Composite also rose 0.4 percent.
TOKYO, Dec 12- Suntory Holdings Ltd plans to raise up to $6 billion in an initial public offering of its food and non-alcoholic beverage unit, sources with knowledge of the matter said, as the Japanese group aims to expand overseas.
**Nexen Inc's chief executive said on Monday that the $15.1 billion acquisition of the Canadian oil producer by China's CNOOC Ltd was not yet wrapped up despite the Canadian government's approval last week.