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Stock Symbol : FO
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Description
Fortune Brands, Inc. is a holding company with operating companies engaged in the manufacture, production and sale of Spirits, Home and Hardware products, and Golf products. The Company’s principal subsidiaries are not limited by long-term debt or other agreements in their abilities to pay cash dividends or to make other distributions with respect to their capital stock or other payments to the Company. In September 2008, the Company acquired Cruzan rum business from Pernod Ricard S.A. (Pernod Ricard). In June 2009, Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc. (BGSW), the spirits business of the Company, acquired the EFFEN Vodka brand from the Sazerac Company, Inc.
