Inflight Service to list Brown-Forman brands from May – 03/02/09

SWEDEN/US. Inflight Service Europe will begin listing Brown-Forman brands – Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey, Southern Comfort, Finlandia Vodka Classic and Finlandia Flavors – from May this year.

The Stockholm-based travel retailer and wholesaler offers liquor, tobacco, fragrances, confectionery, and accessories to retail customers at airports, charter airlines and ferries in the Nordic travel retail market.

Brown-Forman Vice President and Managing Director Travel Retail Jim Perry said: “Inflight Service Europe is one of the top travel retail operations in the world and to have our brands listed with them will give us a terrific boost in the Nordic markets. Having Jack Daniel’s and Finlandia Vodka selected by Inflight Service Europe speaks volumes about their ever-growing popularity within the travel retail/Duty Free industry.”

Finlandia Vodka Worldwide Ltd (FVW) is wholly owned by Brown-Forman Corporation, a diversified producer and marketer of fine quality beverage and alcohol brands including Southern Comfort, Tequila Herradura, el Jimador, Canadian Mist, Fetzer and Bonterra wines and Korbel California Champagnes.

Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey is hand-crafted, distilled, aged and bottled at the Jack Daniel Distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Officially registered in 1866 by Jack Daniel, it is the oldest registered distillery in the United States and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

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