19 Dec 2016 --- Beam Suntory, the Japanese spirits conglomerate, is to buy the London-based craft gin distiller Sipsmith, indicating the growth that drinks giants see in craft distillers and brewers. Beam Suntory, which makes whiskey, tequila, cognac and whose brands include Jim Beam, is to pay an undisclosed amount for Sipsmith, which was founded only seven years ago in a garage in London.
