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Mergers, On-Premise Losses Force Change
Past acquisitions have been absorbed and operations realigned to accommodate them, while additional, smaller acquisitions have continued as COVID-19 put pressure on smaller players. The result for wineries has been ongoing challenges getting product to market, a factor complicated by shuttered restaurants and streamlined product offerings at off-premise outlets as consumers gravitated to familiar, large-format […]
Top 10 U.S. Wine Distributors of 2020
After a busy 2019 that saw the merger of Young’s Market Co. and Republic National Distributing Co. (RNDC), and the failed merger of RNDC and Breakthru, the list of the top 10 wine distributors in United States has remained fairly stable through 2020. The same cannot be said of the wholesale market, which has been […]
Fires Shroud Vineyards, Vintage in Smoke
Massive wildfires have spread throughout California and the rest of the western United States with the majority of the red winegrape harvest remaining to be picked. Dozens have died, thousands of structures have been destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people have had to evacuate in what many are describing as the worst fire season […]
Wine Industry Metrics: Total Sales Fall 3%
Value of domestic wine sales for 12 months ended August 2020 – 3% U.S. wine sales including bulk imports bw166 Other Wine Industry Metrics August 2020 (versus August 2019) data: +18% off-premise sales value, Nielsen channels -26% on-premise sales (ended July 11), Nielsen CGA +29% DtC shipments value, Wines Vines Analytics/Sovos ShipCompliant -37% Winery Job […]
Hess CEO Talks Smoke, Pandemic Strategy
Timothy Persson was working as a corporate attorney in London when he met his future wife, Sabrina, who is the stepdaughter of Hess Collection Winery founder Donald Hess. In 2010, Donald Hess invited Persson to join the family firm and two years later Tim and Sabrina moved to Napa, Calif., to oversee the family’s U.S. […]
Upcoming Events
Nov. 10: Winejobs.com Summit The Winejobs.com Summit will be held online this year. The event is intended to help those working in winery human resources connect with their peers and discuss the hiring, retention and training of employees. winejobshrsummit.com Jan. 26-29, 2021: Unified Wine & Grape Symposium North America’s largest wine industry conference and trade show […]