Alcohol

With more than 17,000 new food products introduced to consumers annually, Philip Lempert, the "Supermarket Guru", says that 2010 "misses" include products from recognizable brands such as Starbuck's, Wrigley's, Minute Maid and Sun Tropics. Find out which companies had hits this year and which companies missed the mark.

Under an initiative approved by the Board, Fortune Brands would become a pure-play spirits company, spin off home and security to shareholders, and either sell or spin off its golf business.

AB InBev expands its partnership with CAS to drive best practice business processes and efficiencies across its go-to-market operations.

Inan ambitious move set to break new ground in nightlife experiences, one of theworld's leading vodka brands unveils the "Smirnoff Nightlife ExchangeProject".

Mergers and acquisitions have caused Foster's to have a mix of enterprise resource planning systems and different methods for defining and processing key business data, such as information on customers and products.

The Dewar's expansion project, which started in July 2007, will be completed in phases over 10 years.

The Anheuser-Busch InBev wholesalers implement the HighJump route accounting system to manage its growing direct store delivery operations.