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O’Neill & Southern-Glazer’s Settle lawsuits over distro agreement termination in Five States

O’Neill Vintners and Distillers (O’NEILL), and Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits (SGWS) have settled a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, over O’Neill’s efforts to terminate distribution agreements with SGWS units in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Iowa, and Indiana. The rest of this article along with 6 major court filings are […]

May 12, 2020 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Bryant Family Vineyards owners win dismissal of consultant’s compensation case

Bryant Family Vineyards has won their lawsuit in New York Federal District Court (Southern District of New York) to dismiss  the compensation claim by former consultant Lauren Ridenhour. According to the judgment by United States District Judge Andrew L. Carter, Jr.: “The dispute stems from Defendants’ refusal to pay Plaintiff, their former employee, for her […]

April 20, 2020 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Special Premium Report: Industry and investor guide to Wine/Viticulture-relevant AgTech technologies and companies

While the pandemic has rattled global financial markets, it will not last forever.   That’s why savvy investors and forward-looking winery and vineyard executives are seeking the new services, technologies and products that will increase operating profits and provide solid investments.   To that end, Wine Executive News has ranked 13 promising AgTech companies that […]

April 14, 2020 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

DTC merger shakes up industry, creates US’s largest AlcBev logistics provider

Reaction continues to come in, but this merger indicates that WineDirect now takes the second place spot in the DTC standings with Copper Peak coming in third. (Comments added in chronological order most recent first.) “WineDirect is proud to provide our clients with best-in-class fulfillment and customer service. Enabling wineries to meet and exceed ever-rising […]

April 6, 2020 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Winc’s registered investment offering closes Friday

This is a draft article updating our previous article:Winc (Formerly Club W) comes in at #7 In WII’s Winetech funding survey. I normally would not publish a draft, but the various Cornonavirus disruptions have put me way off my schedule and I need to get this out quickly because the company has a  SEC-registered Rule […]

March 25, 2020 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Dueling To Kalon lawsuits — Constellation & The Vineyard House — scheduled for trial in federal court

  The dueling lawsuits concerning The Robert Mondavi Winery’s near monopoly over the use of the To Kalon designationon wine played out to a Coronavirus-empty court room in the San Francisco U.S. Federal District Court for the Northern District Of California.   Instead of in-person appearances, Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers ordered lawyers for Constellation Brands […]

March 15, 2020 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Advertising integrity issues still plague Wine Business Monthly as email to advertisers fails to address concerns raised by media buyers, ad agencies and auditors

NOTE: The author of this article, Lewis Perdue, is an award-winning investigative journalist, and has worked in a senior position with J. Walter Thompson advertising, and as a managing director with MSLGROUP/Publicis. He has taught journalism and communications as a member of the regular faculties at Cornell University and UCLA. He is the founder of […]

March 8, 2020 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Anemic subscription base may have prompted Wine Business Monthly’s questionable advertising promotions

EDITOR’S NOTE: It is important to recognize that the news and articles created by Wine Business Monthly’s editorial staff remain a superb and invaluable industry resource. That editorial effort deserves more professional, transparent advertising support that meets industry standards for integrity.   About the author: Lewis Perdue has worked in a senior position with J. […]

March 2, 2020 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

Large block of stock in Wine Business Monthly’s parent company available

NOTE: This article was updated at 6:57 a.m.,  Feb. 27,  after the arrival of new information.   A large  block of equity stock in Wine Communications Group (WCG) — the parent company of Wine Business Monthly (WBM) — is available from the estate of the late Frank LaHaye who passed away April 21, 2019.   […]

February 26, 2020 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

VC wine Investments are hibernating. AgriFoodTech gets no traction.That’s why we’re looking at the AlcBevs that are stealing vino’s market share.

Since late last year, we’ve been trying to update our 2018/2019 WineTech investment series. However, little has happened in the field with existing companies profiled, or with  new investments that meet our “low bar” cutoff of $1 million total investment.   We’ve spent way too many weeks and hours chasing a story that seems in […]

February 20, 2020 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More