FORTUNE BRANDS.

Authors :: Benner, Katie
Source :: Fortune; 4/30/2007, Vol. 155 Issue 8, p158-159, 2p
Publication Year :: 2007
Abstract: This article describes how Fortune Brands' profits have jumped 34% in 2006. The company, which was originally incorporated in 1985 as American Brands, traces its lineage to 1795, when a man named Jim Beam started marketing whiskey. By the mid 1990's, Fortune Brands had four divisions: home and hardware, spirits, golf equipment, and office supplies.