Despite rosy projections the fact remains that wine in India is not seen as an approachable beverage.

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Import of diary products soared a whopping 275.5 per cent to Rs 2.85 billion (Rs 285 crore) and that of food grains by 211 per cent to Rs 920 million (Rs 92 crore) in April-February of the past fiscal.

United Spirits Limited clocked sales volume of 100 million cases for the fiscal ended March 31, 2010, becoming the world's second largest spirit company by volumes, UB group chairman Dr Vijay Mallya,announced on Wednesday.

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The world's fastest-growing wine market for the past five years, has come crashing down.

UB's beer brand will take on Bacardi's Breezer in the flavoured alcoholic beverage market.

If excise duties are revised upwards, it will affect the FMCG sector, which is witnessing sequential rise in its input costs.

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The Centre has turned down the proposal of the empowered group of state finance ministers to keep alcohol out of goods and services tax.

Edible oil, milk and milk products fall in the sensitive items category and their imports are monitored by the government to ensure that they are not causing any adverse impact on domestic firms, particularly small and medium.

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The below-average monsoon this year and the subsequent shortfall in the production of sugarcane in India will see the prices of Indian Made Foreign Liquor increase by 10-15 per cent in the next financial year, say industry experts.

The alcohol market in India might be a bastion of wines and beers, but the lesser known alcoholic beverage 'liqueur' is slowly carving a niche among consumers with its unique aroma and lower alcoholic content.

Liquor-baron Vijay Mallya today virtually asked the Gujarat government to lift prohibition in force in the state.

Test marketing of bio beer was done some two years ago and there was tremendous response in several places, Dr B Srinivas Amarnath of Advaith Biotech Bangalore, who produced it after several years of research, said in Puducherry on Saturday launching the beverage in the burgeoning beer market of Puducherry.

While there is widespread expectation that excise duty is likely to be raised on revenue considerations, the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector pleads for retaining them at current levels to spur demand.

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Import of refined oil saw a huge jump of 132 per cent, followed by 52.6 per cent in alcoholic beverages and 48.9 per cent in cotton and silk during the April-December period of fiscal 2008-09.

UB Group Chairman Vijay Mallya, who inherited an empire of diverse businesses at age 27, is now trying hard to show that he can be a pragmatic king of bad times, too.That explains Mallya's move to hawk a part of his family silver at a time when the combined debt of his six listed companies has touched a whopping Rs 14,231 crore, as on December 2008. The debt is now more than the group's market cap.

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The move by United Spirits, the Rs 3,500-crore flagship spirits firm of the UB Group, to rope in Diageo as a strategic partner is taking more time than expected. Diageo, a global leader in spirits, is reported to have said it was yet to figure out a structure under which they could forge a strategic relationship with USL.USL has been actively involved in discussions with Diageo for nearly eight months now.

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In a year that saw inflation touching a 13-year high of 12.82 per cent in August, the 150 million cases beer market grew by 15 per cent, according to All India Breweries Association figures. The wine segment, which has a total market size of around 1.5 million cases, posted even a higher growth rate of 30 per cent, as per International Wines and Spirits Record, while other alcoholic beverages, with a market size of 190 million cases, grew at 15 per cent.

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The report was in the context of an objection by the US against India's practice of imposing countervailing duty and SAD on alcoholic beverages. Trade experts said though the trade dispute body ruled in favour of the US, it did not mean much for India as it had withdrawn the CVD on alcoholic spirits in mid-2007.

However, the Appellate Body declined to make any recommendations to the WTO's dispute settlement body what India should do in the light of its ruling. The government has already removed the additional duty on wines and spirits last year. Similarly, it exempted various products from the extra duty, making the case redundant.

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India imported foodgrain worth Rs 2,628.86 crore in the previous fiscal, which was 53.6 per cent less than the Rs 5,666.38 crore (Rs 56.66 billion) imports in 2006-07. The domestic foodgrain production grew by an estimated four per cent to 227.32 million tons in 2007-08, up from 217.28 million tons in 2006-07.

In a sharp mid-course correction, Karan Bilimoria, the NRI beer maker, is in talks for a distribution tie-up in the US with Anheuser-Busch, whose Budweiser lords it over half the beer market in that country. While Cobra managed to hold its own in the SABMiller-dominated South African beer market, it managed only flat results with Krait Prestige, which was marketed as the world's first Champagne Lager.

Soy Sauce contains a chemical that may cause cancer, according to a food regulator. Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ), the governmental body responsible for developing food standards for Australia and New Zealand, says that ethyl carbamate (EC) is found in many common foods including soy sauce.

Mallya is the first Indian ever to become the owner of a Formula One Team. The Netherlands-based Mol Family and Mallya have formed a consortium that is now the joint owner of Force India Formula One, which is also India's first-ever Formula One Team and represents India's first, truly global sports foray.

Airlines earn ancillary revenues from freight, sale of food, drinks and gifts onboard, sale of travel insurance, hotel rooms and car rentals, through frequent flier programmes, and by trying to cross-sell other products like credit cards and medical insurance. Globally, airlines make 4-5 per cent of their revenues from ancillary sources.

With the wine market in India poised for heady growth, liquor companies are ready to uncork their best wines. Currently, the Indian wine market is estimated at 1.2 million cases (one case has 12 bottles of 750 ml each), with imported wines accounting for a mere 200,000 cases.

"The increase in edible oil import is mainly due to significant growth in import of crude palm oil and its fractions, which has gone up by 11 per cent," an official statement said in New Delhi on Tuesday. Imports of fruits and vegetables (including nuts), foodgrain, cotton and silk, automobiles, rubber, alcoholic beverages and tea and coffee have also shown increase during the period under review.

India's United Breweries has suggested close distribution ties with Heineken following the takeover offer by the Dutch brewer and Carlsberg for Scottish & Newcastle, which owns a stake in UB.

Petroleum products such as crude, motor spirit and diesel, and alcohol beverages will be kept outside the dual goods and service tax (GST) structure, which will be implemented from April 2010.

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