Willingness is all very well, but acquire a reputation as a deficient beverage-maker and your stock will plummet.
In 2015 it was announced that the company was acquiring SABMiller, a beverage company based in London, for more than $105 billion.
Starbucks could be the latest target of an international boycott if the rumors are true that the coffee company will acquire a stake in the do-it-yourself beverage company SodaStream.
When acted upon by an enzyme called polyphenol oxidase, polyphenols acquire a reddish colour and form the flavouring compounds of the beverage.
When you join a band, you purchase a costume, acquire a group of like-minded revelers and indulge in the bottomless beverages often including with your participation package.
I continued to consume free beverages, acquired a surprising number of sunglasses, ate a lot of tacos and, most importantly, managed to catch a lot of great bands including SBTRKT, The War On Drugs, Beach House and Deerhoof among many others.
When Danone, a French food giant, acquired a 51% stake in Wahaha Beverage, a Chinese firm, in 1996, it considered it a coup.
CCE will also buy Coke's bottling assets in Norway and Sweden for $822 million and has an option to acquire the beverage maker's equity stake in its German bottling operations.
In Coffee: A Global History, Jonathan Morris explains both how the world acquired a taste for this humble bean, and why the beverage tastes so differently throughout the world.
Last year, Kirin acquired a 14.7 percent stake in Fraser and Neave, a major player in the Singaporean and Malaysian beverage markets, for 84.6 billion yen.
