Sentences with phrase «wine end of the business»

«It wasn't long after that Jack's brother, Sam Aaron, got into the wine end of the business.

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NAPA, Calif. (AP)-- Businesses in California's wine capital are mopping up thousands of dollars in high - end vintages and sweeping glass from ghostly downtown streets that officials hope will soon bustle again with tourists following the San Francisco Bay Area's strongest earthquake in 25 years.

AS the time for nominations to the WA Business News Legal Elite nears an end, we are pleased to announce that top WA winemaker Howard Park Wines has come aboard to offer a case of mixed reds to a lucky entrant who gets their nomination form in before the May 21 close.

«As an independent consultant, I found myself missing «water cooler» conversations, professional development opportunities, a sounding board and someone to have a glass of wine with at the end of the day,» says Stephanie Goodell, founder of Samaya Consulting and Business Engagement Lead at IBIS Consulting Group.

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Smart investment bankers are beavering away on potential structures to mesh Treasury and Accolade together and come away with a lower - end high - volume commercial wine giant, and a separate high - end core Treasury business with the jewels of Penfolds and Wolf Blass still intact.

Wine is essentially a regional business and scale works best at the low end of the wine spectWine is essentially a regional business and scale works best at the low end of the wine spectwine spectrum.

The acquisition also gave Treasury options for the future, including a potential split of the entire Treasury business into two parts, with the Blossom Hill brand adding critical mass and bigger scale to the lower - end commercial wine operations, he said.

Accolade has been tilting its business further towards the premium end of the wine sector through a string of acquisitions in Australia, New Zealand and Chile in the past few years.

Mr Clarke also revealed at the strategic briefing that Treasury was still considering a potential de-merger of its lower - priced commercial wine business among a range of future options, which also includes more acquisitions of higher - end wine companies as it heads towards its goal of having profit margins above 30 per cent across the entire business.

«The wine business is a tough business and many family winemakers are no longer owned by the family, and it is always a concern, but at the end of the day it's up to us to do what we can, up to the next generation,» he told the paper.

Treasury, which also owns Rosemount, Lindemans, Wynns and Wolf Blass, revealed earlier on Wednesday that the impairments comprised write downs of historical prices paid for wine businesses before Treasury was de-merged from Foster's in 2011 plus a string of winery assets and infrastructure at the lower - priced commercial end of the market which have shrunk in value.

Having chaired the judging panel since the Boutique Wine Awards began, I never cease to be impressed by what the small end of the wine business can deliWine Awards began, I never cease to be impressed by what the small end of the wine business can deliwine business can deliver.

Treasury's new chief executive Mike Clarke is trying to overhaul the company to act more like the custodian of fine wine brands and less like a grocery business stuffing its product onto shelves in a rush towards the end of each financial year to make sure it meets its profit targets.

This means good prospects for the REWE Group who brought their «Weinfreunde.de» wine management business to market in Summer 2015 or for food retailer LIDL who has already been massively advertising its online wine shop since the end of 2014.

So when wine is allowed to be sold in grocery stores I think the liquor stores instead of fighting this to the bitter end they should be embracing the change and start to approach this like every other business in the US that has competitors and learn what their customers like, and learn about customer service, do a marketing plan, figure out how to compete against the grocer like most liquor stores in other states where wine is sold in grocery stores do.

On the high end, for example, there's Metal Gear Solid wine for $ 499 («A promotional item from Japan... It was handed to Konami's business partners only») and even a complete set of regular MGS trading cards from back in 1998 - which are semi-transparent and smart - looking, btw.

But in recent years, wine producers, concerned about quality control and cost, started shifting to plastic stoppers and plastic - lined aluminum screw caps, which ended up capturing about a third of the billion - dollar wine - closure business.

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