Evening Standard: Our love affair with gin just the tonic for Pernod’s new chief

What could a Frenchman know about London dry gin? One Parisian, Alexandre Ricard, is keen to prove he knows quite a bit.

The family drinks business owns Beefeater — the only major brand of gin still made in the capital. Distilled in London since 1860, it has been at its current home in Kennington since 1958.

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