MARC HASENFUSS: Cheers, Capevin
Capevin’s surprise plan to sell its Gordon’s Gin rights to Diageo could mean some bumper special dividends, not to mention deals around its undervalued whisky assets
I was pretty much driven to drink last week. Not only was my indecision about increasing my exposure to Montauk Renewables bothering me every waking hour, but there was Nampak bobbing around temptingly in the mid-80s.
I had nocturnal problems to cope with as well. A determined porcupine was persistently trying to dig into our property to ravage the sprawling onion fields. The prickly fellow did an impressive job of trying to get under the fence’s cement foundation. I could have buried my old golf bag, so deep was the ditch dug by the porcupine. Unable to tunnel under, he resorted to ripping the lower sections of the fence boards into splinters. And my reliable and fearless Jack Russells? They are both far smarter than I give them credit for. They would bark and tactically retreat, but make no real effort to confront the quilled creature. ..
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