Sidebar 3: The Big Wineries
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Andrew Peller Ltd is located in Grimsby.
Labels include Schloss Laderheim, Royal, Sommet, Domaine D'Or and Hochtaler. Premium and ultra-premium brands include Peller Estates, Trius, Hillebrand, Thirty Bench, Sandhill, Copper Moon, Calona Vineyards Artist Series VQA wines and Red Rooster.
Andrew Peller owns and operates Vineyards Estate Wines and WineCountry Vintners, independent wine retailers in Ontario with more than 100 well-positioned retail locations. Andrew Peller Limited common shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange (symbols ADW..A and ADW.B)
Source: Andrew Peller Ltd.
In 2006, Rochester New York- based Constellation Brands completed its acquisition of Canadian wine company Vincor International for $1.3 billion. Included were Canada's biggest wine brand, Jackson-Triggs, and Inniskillin, a premier international icewine. With the purchase, Canada became Constellations fifth core market (with the U.S., U.K., Australia and New Zealand). Constellation inherited Vincor's position as Canada's largest wine producer and marketer (Vincor had been the world's eighth largest wine
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Source: Constellation Brands Website.