BIG DEAL – Diageo to take over Moët Hennessy

FRANCE(Paris) - According to analysts, thanks to the recent involvement of LVMH with Hermès, combined with a possible expansion of the latter, potential buyers may concentrate on buying assets through the LVMH again. These speculations might focus on the sale of 66 percent share of the LVMH to Moët Hennessy to the world's largest wine & spirit's group DIAGEO.

Matthias Wolf - Young boss in Ortenberg

GERMANY (Ortenberg) - No trouper like the longtime director Winfried Köninger, but a young wine business economist will be the new boss in the winery castle Ortenberg. As of January 1st 2010, Matthias Wolf (27) will take...

Crucial vote - new wine president in Franconia

GERMANY (Würzburg) - Actually, Oskar Noppenberger, long-time director of the successful vintagers association Divino in Nordheim, was perfectly sure that after his retirement from the cooperative in beforehand...

Vinum: KünzlerBachmann Medien AG buys Europe's largest wine magazine

SWITZERLAND (St. Gallen) - What began in Zurich more than 25 years ago now has a Swiss flag again: With the takeover of Vinum by the St. Galler KünzlerBachmann Medien AG, after 7 years of effort by the German agriculture...

Helmut Plunien leaves the Episcopal Wine Estates

GERMANY (Trier) - The current edition of Gault-Millau has affirmed Helmut Plumien that he has managed to push the Episcopal Wine Estates in Trier forward, since he had taken over as new managing director at the end of...

Hostile takeover: First Château Lagrange now Orangina Schweppes

JAPAN (Tokyo) - The Japanese beverage giant Suntory is taking over the European softdrink-producer Orangina Schweppes. According to a statement by the company this morning in Tokyo, the takeover was now complete. Only...

Racke sells wine brand: Blanchet becomes a Rotkäppchen

GERMANY (Mainz/Bremen) - Germany's most famous wine brand Blanchet*, which recently became a strong brand in supermarkets with 10.6 million bottles sold, will switch from the Racke GmbH & Co in Mainz/Bremen to the...

Intervinum AG and Vinum GmbH sold

SWITZERLAND (St. Gallen) - The Swiss trade and special interest publishing house KünzlerBachmann Medien AG in St. Gallen, has acquired the majority of shares (86 %) in the Intervinum AG, Zurich, from the...

Belgian business woman buys Avignonesi

ITALY (Montepulciano) - Virginie Saverys, member of the administrative board of the Belgian company "Maritime Belge SA" recently took over the 90 percent share of the Tuscan winery Avignonesi.

Robert of Luxembourg takes over the leadership of Haut-Brion

FRANCE (Bordeaux) - Prince Robert of Luxembourg who now holds the sceptre at Haut-Brion, has hitherto been vice president of the Domaine Clarence Dillon concern. Already at the age of 18, he was named administrator of...

Schlumberger takes over wholesale branch of Mövenpick

GERMANY (Meckenheim-Dortmund) - According to the latest news of the industrial magazine Wein + Markt, on the 1st of August, the Meckenheimer Schlumberger KG is taking over the wholesale branch of the Dortmund-based...