Originally Posted by
whackyjacky
Agreed. Can't really see how "it takes Beam out of the market". Hard to improve on the small batch Beam products, but I wouldn't put it past Suntory.
There are some folks out there who won't buy from a Japanese owned company (although they'd probably use an impolite monosyllable for the adjective), even if the product is still made in the US.
OTOH, those folks are unlikely to know, unless somehow "Iconic American brand bought by foreigners" gets scared up on a certain cable news channel whose existence is in part to pander to same said folks.