Market Talk with Ian Guider

C&C is certainly full of ambition, but does it have a clear plan?

Drinks company C&C last year staged an audacious attempt to get its hands on a chain of 1,000 pubs across Britain. The €1 billion gambit would have solved the problem of its struggle to get its bottles of cider in front of a huge number of drinkers.

If the takeover offer for ...