Beam Continues to Benefit from Innovations

Dear Client: "We like where we are," said Beam Inc chief Matt Shattock regarding the company's third quarter results (Jul-Aug-Sept) during their first earnings conference call as an independent spirits company. Particularly, "Beam delivered record third-quarter sales that grew faster than our markets," helped partly by some timing benefits in the US and Australia. During Q3 their US distributors were able to build normal stocks on Skinnygirl as supply caught up with demand. Beam continues to see US consumers trading