Molson tries an iced tea-flavoured beer

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MOLSON COORS CANADA INC. (Toronto symbols TPX.A $40 and TPX.B $40; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 181.1 million; Market cap: $7.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.1; Dividend yield: 3.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.molsoncoors.com) hopes to spur sales this summer with Coors Light Iced T, a new beer mixed with tea and lemon. Innovative products like this should help the company compete with makers of flavoured vodka and wine drinks. Molson also aims to attract more consumers who don’t typically drink beer, particularly women. Molson Coors is a buy. The class B shares are the better choice. choice…