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Consolidation: feeling the squeezeConsolidation: feeling the squeeze
1-Feb-2006
Supplier consolidation moved even higher up the list of European travel retailers' concerns last year. Liquor buyers' contact books were looking thin after last July's blockbuster acquisition of Allied Domecq by Pernod Ricard and Fortune Brands
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And with more mergers and acquisitions likely in the next few years, retailer opinion is mixed on whether the trend is having a positive or negative effect on the category.
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