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Chris Mason has been a man of the drinks world for more than 30 years. When he eventually decides to quit the booze-selling game, he will be drawing pensions from Pernod Ricard, Allied Domecq and Bacardi. Had it been the type of company that ‘thought about pensions’, he could have added Seagram to the list. As he says, ‘It’s only Diageo that’s missing for a full set.’ As so often in the drinks trade, it very nearly didn’t work out that way. Had it not been for the antisocial hours, Mason could well be appearing in the pages of Property Week or The Builder, rather than Harpers. It was rugby that saved him from the social-pariah status of his first proper job as an estate agent. ‘I played a lot in those days,’ Mason says, ‘and, though I wasn’t afraid of working long hours, I didn’t want to work on Saturday afternoons. But you can’t be an estate agent without working on Saturday afternoons.’ ...
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