Author Archives: Donna Whitaker

Merry Edwards Sells Winery to Louis Rederer

In addition to the winery, the 71-year-old Edwards sold the tasting room and 79 acres of vineyards to the French Champagne house.

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Wine.Com Revenue Reaches $130 Million in 2018

Wine.com reports revenue reached $130 million in 2018, and has grown 15-20% per year for the last several years. After the launch of

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Jack Daniel’s Distillery Streets Flooded as Cave Overflows

Heavy rain on Saturday (2/23) resulted in a stream that originates in a cave on the property overflowing.  No buildings were damaged,

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Patrón Seeks Nominations for ‘Margarita of the Year’

Patrón Tequila invites fans to celebrate International Margarita Day as it embarks on its search for 2019’s “Margarita of the Year.” The

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What We’re Reading —

It Shook the Food Business by Snagging Burger King, Kraft And Heinz. Now 3G Is Reeling. 3G Capital is the firm behind InBev‘s takeover of Anheuser-Busch.  At the time over the takeover, we noted that the Belgian-

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Kraft Heinz Disaster Shows Brutal Cost-Cutting Won’t Save Packaged Foods

It could soon become a classic Harvard Business School case study in how a new, highly-praised strategy for reviving slogging, slow-

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