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Archive for March, 2017

Delicato Family Vineyards adds rosé to Noble Vines Collection

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Delicato Family Vineyards, Napa, Calif., announced the addition of a Rosé to its Noble Vines Collection. The 2016 Noble Vines Vine Select 515 Rosé releases nationally this month, the company says. Read more

Delicato and V2 Wine Group Form Partnership

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Delicato Family Vineyards is making a significant equity investment in V2 Wine Group, owner of Bouchaine Vineyards, Donati Family Vineyard, Dry Creek Vineyard, Merryvale Family of Wines, Starmont Winery, Toad Hollow Vineyards among many others. DFV is... Read more

Has Your Winery Tripled Wine Club Conversion Rates?

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Brown-Forman’s U.S. Sales Rise 4% In Fiscal Year To Date

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Brown-Forman continues to show solid organic growth in the U.S. market, with underlying sales up 4% in the nine months through January, although divestitures and foreign exchange issues ate into the company’s results on a reported basis. For the nine-month … Continue reading

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Southern Glazer’s Opens Travel Sales And Export Division

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Top U.S. spirits and wine wholesaler Southern Glazer’s is expanding with the debut of a new Travel Sales and Export unit, which will offer brokerage services to travel and export market channels. The new division will serve Southern Glazer’s supplier … Continue reading

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News Briefs for March 7, 2017

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•Delicato Family Vineyards has taken a “significant stake” in Sonoma, California-based V2 Wine Group. Delicato said the move is part of an ongoing premiumization strategy. V2, a sales, marketing and production company launched in 2010 by Dan and Katy Leese … Continue reading

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CHAMP pulls plug on Accolade Wines sale, hints at future offload

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CHAMP Private Equity has confirmed to just-drinks that it has abandoned plans to either sell or float Accolade Wines, adding that it aims to "enhance" the unit's "attractiveness to investors". Read more

Southern Glazer’s launches Travel Sales and Export division

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Miami-based Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits LLC announced the launch of its new Travel Sales and Export division, becoming the first major U.S. wholesale distributor to offer brokerage services to travel and export market channels, th... Read more

More Bacardi Leadership Changes

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More news from Bacardi this morning, as the Bermuda-based spirits giant has moved Mauricio Vergara, North American cmo, to the role of svp-commercial for Bacardi USA, while Shane Hoyne, the cmo for Europe has added marketing oversight for North America... Read more

Bacardi Names Vergara To New Role, Reshuffles Global Management Team

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Bacardi Ltd has appointed Mauricio Vergara as senior vice president-commercial for Bacardi USA. Vergara, who had been serving as chief marketing officer for Bacardi in North America, will now be responsible for sales and commercialization of the entire Bacardi portfolio … Continue reading

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