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March 12th 2008
Chamarre goes public

by Joel B. Payne

Chamarré was conceived in 2005 as an umbrella brand to market French wines. Last fall its president, Pascal Renaudat, took the company public. Joel B. Payne asks if the money raised will allow Renaudat to build a mass market French brand.

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March 10th 2008
High street bin ends
by Andrew Catchpole

Britain’s former favourite high street retailer, Oddbins, continues to make serious losses for its French owner, Castel. Pinched between the multiples and specialist independents, and with many of its best sites stripped to boost its profitable sister chain Nicolas, Andrew Catchpole looks at whether Oddbins has had its day.
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February 2nd 2008
Southern comfort

by Kevin McCallum

Innumerable producers from around the world pin their dreams on the American market. Kevin McCallum looks at the country’s largest distributor, Southern Wine and Spirits.

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December 20th 2007
Wine financing at the Rabobank

by Cees van Casteren and Joel B. Payne

Although fine wine is a capital intensive business, there is little talk of the banks that make it possible. Rabobank is one of the largest. Meininger’s spoke with their global wine analyst, Arend Heijbroek, at his Utrecht office.

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October 10th 2007
Casella at the crossroads
by Felicity Carter

The world has never seen anything like Yellow Tail, the Harry Potter of wine. It's success on an unprecedented scale, that many people have tried to imitate, but which none have achieved. Felicity Carter meets the people behind the phenomenon and asks them what they're up to next.
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August 27th 2007
LVMH: Sparkling with still

by Jane Anson

Moët Hennessy has one of the strongest prestige portfolios in the business. As Jane Anson discovers, retaining icon status means constant brand vigilance, strategies to connect directly with consumers, plus a willingness to expand into new markets.

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August 27th 2007
Fosters: All things to all people?
by Felicity Carter

Although it began in 1888 as a two-man Australian brewing company, Foster’s is now the world’s second largest wine company, owning icon brands like Penfolds, Wynns, Stag’s Leap and Beringer. As brand equity is more important for a beer company than vines or historic properties, Felicity Carter asks if Foster’s can maintain the legacy.
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June 12th 2007
Baron Philippe de Rothschild
by Jane Anson

The Rothschilds – Lafite and Mouton – have been legendary names in Bordeaux since the late 19th century when, within a few years of each other, branches of the family purchased neighbouring estates in Pauillac. Both remain family-owned, joined in name but entirely separate in business. Jane Anson spoke with the two about their visions.
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December 15th 2006
Tuscan visionaries: Marchesi Antinori and Frescobaldi
by Michèle Shah

Antinori and Frescobaldi are two of Italy’s leading wine brands, but both of these family-owned companies have ambivalent attitudes to the way they use their names – and the investment they are prepared to put into official designations of the region of Tuscany...
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October 10th 2006
Pernod Ricard`s wine empire

by Joel B. Payne

Pernod Ricard's purchase of Allied Domecq in 2005 sent shockwaves through the spirits industry. The group is now the second largest liquor company in the world. Little noticed by many were the wine acquisitions in the deal which turned...

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