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Fortune Brands to split company, hold its liquor (Reuters)

5:52am GMT, Thursday, 9 December 2010

Master distiller Jerry Dalton looks at the 10,000,000 millionth barrel of Jim Beam bourbon whiskey (R) in one the many warehouses at the Beam distillery in Clermont, Kentucky April 7, 2005. The over 200 hundred year old firm makes nearly 700 barrels of whiskey a day with number 10,000,000 produced in February of this year. REUTERS/Rick WilkingReuters - Fortune Brands Inc will split off its golf and home products units amid pressure from activist investor William Ackman, raising the odds for a takeover of its most profitable business of alcoholic drinks.



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