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In 1939 Heublein acquired all rights to Smirnoff Vodka, a brand that had been produced in Russia prior to the October Revolution. John G. Martin was president at the time and acquired the rights to Smirnoff Vodka for only $14,000. Even though the price was an incredible deal, the deal was known as "Martin's Folly" as sales were dismal.
The brand was introduced as the "Russian Standard" vodka in 1998 by the Russian Standard company of Roustam Tariko. Two years after a successful Russian market launch, international expansion was started. This was accompanied by the launch of Russian Standard Platinum product in 2001 and the luxury brand Imperia in 2004. [1]
Smirnoff (/ ˈ s m ɪər n ɒ f /; Russian: [smʲɪrˈnof]) is a brand of vodka owned and produced by the British company Diageo.The Smirnoff brand began with a vodka distillery founded in Moscow by Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov (1831–1898), but its modern incarnation traces back to the 1930s, by American liquor distributor Heublein. [1]
Russian and Ukrainian beers. In Russia, beer (Russian: пиво pivo) is tied with vodka as the most popular alcoholic drink in the country. The average Russian person drank about 11.7 liters of pure alcohol in 2016, with beer and vodka accounting for 39% each. [1] Russians categorize beer by color rather than fermentation process: Light, Red ...
The name Stolichnaya is pronounced in Russian [stɐˈlʲit͡ɕnajə]. [2] The word is the adjectival form of столица (stolitsa), meaning "capital city". [3] The Soyuzplodoimport bottle label features the words "Stolichnaya Vodka" in gold cursive script over a drawing of a Moscow landmark, the recently rebuilt Hotel Moskva.
A beloved brand of vodka is on the rocks (and we don't mean the beverage itself). ... Stoli has had a long, complicated history with Russia. Founded in Russia in the 1930s, the company was owned ...
In the 2010s vodka was bottled at the plant for Kristall-Lefortovo (Old Moscow and Festive brands) and the Eastern European Distribution Company VEDK (brands «Putinka», «Dvoynaya», 30.4%). The most famous brands of the plant are vodka «Putinka», «CRISTALL Golden Ring», «Moskovskaya Kristall», «Stary Arbat», «Golden Ring» and others.
Other businesses are ditching Russian vodka as well. Don Podrebarac is the owner of Southern Spirits in Fort Mill, S.C., and says he informed employees last week that all Russian-produced vodka ...