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| | Central European Distribution Corporation (CEDC) - Press Release - March 29, 2000 |
 | | While Polish vodka sales are slowing at home, they are growing abroad, led by brands like Wyborowa, the greenish Zubrowka flavored with bison grass from the Polish prairie and a few new luxury vodkas that sell for more than $30 a bottle in the United States. |
 | | Now, as Poland moves to privatize its vodka factories beginning this spring, it is waking up to the fact that vodka can be a lucrative export, and everyone wants a measure of its potential success. |
 | | In a spirited battle for the right to sell abroad, the country's 21 vodka makers, who see exports as their only salvation, are facing off against the local Polish distributors and the French drinks giant Pernod-Ricard, which owns the export rights to most of Poland's top vodka brands. |
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