Movistar Team (women's team) Movistar Team (women's team) Movistar Team is a professional road bicycle racing women's team which participates in elite women's races. The title sponsor is the Spanish mobile telephone company Telefónica, with the team riding under the name of the company's brand "Movistar". In September 2017, announced it would join the likes of , , and in the creation of a predominantly Spanish women's team aimed at developing women's cycling within Spain. In early October 2017, the inaugural roster was announced: Mavi García, Spanish national time trial champion - Lourdes Oyarbide and Lorena Llamas joining from . Alicia González Blanco, Eider
Alcohol monopoly alcohol monopoly also formerly existed in Taiwan between 1947 and 2002, when the Taiwanese market was opened to overseas brands as part of its admission to the WTO in 2002. The alcohol monopoly was created in the Swedish town of Falun in 1850, to prevent overconsumption and reduce the profit motive for sales of alcohol. It later went all over the country in 1905 when the Swedish parliament ordered all sales of vodka to be done via local alcohol monopolies. In 1895, Russia established a state monopoly on alcohol, which became a major source of revenue for the Russian government.