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Diageo launches and prices three-tranche $2.5bn fixed rate Dollar denominated bonds

May 9th, 2012 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

Diageo, the world’s leading premium drinks business, yesterday launched and priced a $2.5 billion bond transaction consisting of $1bn 1.5% May 2017, $1bn 2.875% May 2022 and $500mn 4.25% May 2042…



Constellation Brands Enters Into New Senior Credit Facility

May 3rd, 2012 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

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td.hugin { padding: 3px; border-color:black;}VICTOR, N.Y., May 3, 2012 – Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ), the world’s leading premium wine company, announced today that it has entered into a new senior credit f…



Constellation Brands and Crown Imports Ring in Cinco de Mayo at New York Stock Exchange

May 3rd, 2012 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

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td.hugin { padding: 3px; border-color:black;}VICTOR, N.Y., May 3, 2011 – Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ), the world’s leading premium wine company announced today that representatives from the company and Crown…



Interim Management Statement for the nine months ended 31 March 2012

May 3rd, 2012 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

Strong sales growth continues: 6% organic net sales growth in Q3In the quarter ended 31 March 2012, Diageo delivered 6% organic net sales growth with 3% organic volume growth and 3ppts price/mix…



Fine Wine magazine

Apr 26th, 2012 | By | Category: Feature, Wine Industry Report

Advertise Here A new digital publication from FineWinePress has been launched – FineWineMagazine.com Wine sales, social networking, wine information and [...]



Diageo announces completion of Mandatory Tender Offer for the outstanding shares in Chinese White Spirits Company Sichuan Shuijingfang

Apr 25th, 2012 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

Further to the announcement made on 20th March, Diageo has completed the mandatory tender offer (“MTO”) for the outstanding shares of Sichuan Shuijingfang Co., Ltd. (“ShuiJingFang”) and there was a…



Constellation Brands Completes Debt Offering

Apr 17th, 2012 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

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td.hugin { padding: 3px; border-color:black;} VICTOR, N.Y., April 17, 2012 – Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ), the world’s leading premium wine company, announced today that it has completed the sale of $600 mi…



Constellation Brands Inc : Reports Fiscal 2012 Results

Apr 5th, 2012 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

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td.hugin { padding: 3px; border-color:black;}  Achieves comparable basis diluted EPS of $2.34 and reported basis diluted EPS of $2.13; results reflect favorable tax rate benefits  Generates record free cash fl…



Diageo gains regulatory approval to launch a Mandatory Tender Offer for the outstanding shares in Chinese White Spirits Company Sichuan Shuijingfang Co., Ltd.

Mar 20th, 2012 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (“CSRC”) has issued its approval for Diageo to launch a mandatory tender offer (“MTO”) for the outstanding shares of Sichuan Shuijingfang Co., Ltd….



Costing the earth: The price of biodynamic viticulture

Mar 19th, 2012 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

…it is an illusion to attempt to understand through scientific proof something that you believe in. Manfred Klett More and [...]



Brown-Forman Names Koval Director of Investor Relations

Mar 15th, 2012 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

LOUISVILLE, Ky.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mar. 15, 2012– Brown-Forman (NYSE: BFA)(NYSE: BFB) announced today that it has appointed Jason Koval as director of investor relations for the company, effective March 19, 2012. Koval succeeds interim Director of Inve…



Constellation Brands to Report Fourth Quarter and Full Year Fiscal 2012 Financial Results; Host Conference Call April 5, 2012

Mar 13th, 2012 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

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td.hugin { padding: 3px; border-color:black;}VICTOR, N.Y., MARCH 13, 2012 – Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ), the world’s leading premium wine company, announced today it will report financial results for its fi…



Brown-Forman UBS Global Consumer Conference Presentation Available as Webcast

Mar 8th, 2012 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

LOUISVILLE, Ky.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mar. 8, 2012– Brown-Forman Corporation (NYSE:BFA) (NYSE:BFB) will present at the UBS Global Consumer Conference on March 14, 2012 in Boston.
The audio presentation, accompanied by PowerPoint slides, by Brown-Forman …



Brown-Forman Year-to-Date Performance Remains on Track – Confirms and Narrows Full Year Guidance

Mar 7th, 2012 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Mar 07, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) –For the first nine months of its fiscal year ended January 31, 2012, Brown-Forman Corporation (NYSE:BFA) (NYSE:BFB) increased net sales on a reported basis 8% to $2.8 billion, grew dil…



Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research Announces Donation to Local Cancer Center

Feb 22nd, 2012 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

~H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center to receive funding to help fight childhood cancer; money raised through national campaign sponsored by Constellation Brands

TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 22, 2012  /PRNewswire/ — Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research (…



Brown-Forman Third Quarter Earnings Release and Conference Call Scheduled for March 7, 2012

Feb 22nd, 2012 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

LOUISVILLE, Ky.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Feb. 22, 2012– Brown-Forman Corporation (NYSE:BFA) (NYSE:BFB) will release its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2012 on March 7 by 8:00 a.m. (EST). The company will host a conference call to disc…



Half year results, six months ended 31 December 2011

Feb 9th, 2012 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

Strong performance driven by our brands, our markets and our people
Results summary

3% volume growth. Price increases together with mix benefits drove 7% organic net sales growth
9% organic…



Constellation Brands Donates More Than $160,000 to Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research Through National Campaign

Jan 30th, 2012 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

 

VICTOR, N.Y., Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Constellation Brands, Inc., the world’s leading premium wine company, presented a check today for approximately $163,000 to the Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research (Rally) as p…



Brown-Forman Declares Cash Dividend

Jan 24th, 2012 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

LOUISVILLE, Ky.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 24, 2012– Brown-Forman’s Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.35 cents per share on its Class A and Class B Common Stock. Stockholders of record on March 5, 2012 will receive the …



Diageo announces brewing investment plans in Ireland

Jan 12th, 2012 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

Diageo is today announcing its decision to make a capital investment of €153 million in a brewing centre of excellence at St James’s Gate, Dublin. This announcement follows a major review looking…



Revised segmental information for prior reporting periods

Jan 10th, 2012 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

On 25 May 2011 Diageo announced changes to its reporting regional structure. From 1 July 2011 two autonomous regions, Diageo Latin America and Caribbean and Diageo Africa, replaced the…



Diageo completes acquisition of Meta Abo Brewery, Ethiopia

Jan 10th, 2012 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

• Gains direct access to fast growing Ethiopian beer market complementing existing spirits business• Next step in Africa growth market participation strategy• Appointment of Managing…



Constellation Brands Inc. : Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2012 Results

Jan 5th, 2012 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

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td.hugin { padding: 3px; border-color:black;} Achieves comparable basis diluted EPS of $0.50 and reported basis diluted EPS of $0.52  Strong free cash flow generation drives $100 million increase to annual gui…



The cost of Champagne

Dec 31st, 2010 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

DECONSTRUCTING THE cost of producing a bottle of Champagne is fraught with difficulty. Firstly, it is not a subject many producers, nor their oversight bodies, jump to facilitate. Secondly, Champagne producers are diverse in the quantity and quality of the wine they produce. A producer whose motivation is to maximise his profit from the grapes he presses or the juice he buys has a different set of cost parameters from one who sets out to produce the best Champagne he can almost irrespective of cost.



Social Media: Building communities and understanding them

May 20th, 2010 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

Social media is a way for you to build your own contacts and network, but as importantly, to understand, measure and follow your brand, your market penetration, your influence and the efficiency and thus cost of your marketing strategy.



The Italian Way: sparkling wines

Mar 29th, 2010 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

        Italy is a country of enormous diversity – geographic, cultural, linguistic, culinary and, of course, vinous. [...]



What does 'moderate' drinking really mean?

Dec 31st, 2009 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

“Moderate” drinking means no more than two drinks per day for men and no more than one drink per day for women. Drinking seven drinks in one day and abstaining for the rest of the week doesn’t count.



The pros and cons of drinking: Weighing alcohol's effects on the body

Dec 31st, 2009 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

A few months ago I received a book called “The Two Martini Diet” (Authorhouse, 2008), in which Jerry Sorlucco documents his success at losing more than 100 pounds without forgoing his daily cocktails. He doesn’t break new diet-book ground: Sorlucco follows well-established practices such as controlling portion sizes, eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, and managing his calorie intake and expenditure to accommodate those drinks.



Fine Wine in the UK – the state of the market and outlook

Aug 4th, 2009 | By | Category: Wine Industry Report

Britain’s recession officially started in the middle of 2008, but revised data now contradicts the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair [...]