{"id":67722,"date":"2016-11-10T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=67722"},"modified":"2016-11-04T23:02:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T03:02:51","slug":"spirited-journey-transformation-of-a-220-year-old-start-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=67722","title":{"rendered":"Spirited Journey: Transformation of a 220 Year-Old &#8216;Start-Up&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, November 10\u00a0 12pm<br \/>\nJapan Society<br \/>\n333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/shattock_XL.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[67722]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67723\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/shattock_XL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beam Suntory has come a long way since 1795, when Jacob Beam produced his first barrel of whiskey in the wilds of Kentucky. In 2014, Suntory \u2013 a leading Japan-based company with a family heritage that dates to 1899 \u2013 acquired Beam for $16 billion, and today Beam Suntory is the world\u2019s third-largest premium spirits company. In this program, Matt Shattock, Chairman and CEO of Beam Suntory Inc., discusses how this company with centuries old roots has evolved into a global leader with the energy and ambition of a start-up.  Mr. Shattock shares the keys to the new company\u2019s successful integration and the business\u2019s strategy to outperform its market.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker:<br \/>\nMatt Shattock, Chairman and CEO, Beam Suntory Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Presider:<br \/>\nNoah Rothbaum, Drink + Food Senior Editor, The Daily Beast; author of The Art of American Whiskey and The Business of Spirits<\/p>\n<p>Agenda<br \/>\n12\u201312:30 PM      Registration &amp; Reception<br \/>\n12:30\u20131 PM        Luncheon<br \/>\n1\u20132 PM               Lecture &amp; Q&amp;A<\/p>\n<p>For tickets visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/event\/spirited-journey-transformation-of-a-220-year-old-start-up\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.japansociety.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, November 10\u00a0 12pm Japan Society 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67724,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67722\/revisions\/67724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}