1.   In the past harmonisation has been interpreted to mean an institutionalised discrimination against spirits by having very different tax regimes for competing alcoholic products in different countries.

2.   We regard it as a first step, good though not big, towards equal treatment for all alcoholic products.

3.   The report by the Federal Trade Commission finds that for the most part, companies selling alcoholic products are following their own set codes.

4.   They also damaged signs advertising alcoholic products, witnesses said.

5.   Guinness has been pursuing a strategy of investment, seeing to boost sales of all its alcoholic products through marketing campaigns targeted at specific geographic areas.