Amazon.com Inc., the Seattle-based world’s No. 1 online retailer, had snatched a clearance to deliver alcohol in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, laying off the groundworks to mark up its first footprints into the world’s fifth-largest economy’s multi-billion dollar sector, a confidential document seen by a press agency reporter had unveiled on Sunday.
In a recent editorial, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy asked why hard liquor needs to be treated so much differently than beer and wine in state law. The answer is simple -- because distilled spirits are much stronger intoxicants than beer or wine.
(Mainichi Japan) "Strong" level chuhai (shochu highball) alcoholic drinks with a typical alcohol by volume (ABV) of around 7 to 9% have quickly become huge sellers in Japan, and while demand for other alcoholic drinks such as beer continues to shrink, they have become market-leading products.
A Europe-wide price comparison index found prices in Finland to be 91 percent higher than the EU average last year.
The Wine Institute, the state’s main lobbying trade group for the wine industry, has a new board and has elected John Sutton, chief financial officer of The Wine Group based out of Livermore, as its chairman.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s alcohol control authority is giving restaurants and bars a little more relief during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Young adults have radically reduced their alcohol consumption. Almost one in three young adults in Finland says they don't drink alcohol at all, according to a new survey conducted for the Finnish Federation of the Brewing and Soft Drinks industry.
It says something about Canada that many famous cases throughout Canadian legal history relate to the regulation of alcohol.
At least 3.9 million early deaths are being averted worldwide every year by people being physically active, according to a new study published in The Lancet Global Health today by researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has published new guidance for marketing terms used to advertise or promote gin and gin products.