The top sellers in the measured channels in 2001 were Smirnoff's Vodka ($138 million, up 21 percent), Bacardi's Rum ($135.8 million, up 10.6 percent with a 44.6 percent share of the rum market),
Meat products, woolens and distilled spirits.
Federal, state, and local governments received more than $7.5 billion per year in tax revenue from the distilled spirits industry and $18 billion from the entire alcoholic beverage industry.
Concentrated alcohols are distilled(boiled then condensed) which create distilled spirits such as vodka.
flavored-malt beverages dubbed "alternatives" were the favored adult beverages of 2002. Spirit-branded products, especially vodka and tequila, were the leaders in this fast-growing segment.
Distilled Spirits - 1915 was released on: USA: 14 January 1915
Distilled Spirits Council of the United States was created in 1973.
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Diageo Plc was the world's leading and most profitable wine and spirits company, with 2002 sales of $17.2 billion and a reported 91 million cases in sales in 2000
Distilled spirits.
In 2002, U.S. consumption of distilled spirits totaled 153.0 million cases, an increase of 1.8 percent from the previous year
Distilled spirits.