Hints and tips:
...I ask González Nieves how she’s able to fight old caricatures, but still let tequila be fun. She thinks....
...Two of the most august names, Harvey and Garvey, are now in the hands of Asian businessmen who have bought them mainly for their brandy assets....
...“Traditionally politicians would retire in their sixties or seventies and sit on various company boards and quaff brandy in London clubs....
...The few people involved with wine then felt like true pioneers in a country devoted to beer, brandy and tequila. Today there are about 150 wineries....
...“I’m not discarding the possibility in the near future,” says Bertha González, the group’s chief executive. But for now, she is focusing on growth markets, chiefly the US and Mexico....
...It also chose to sell Domecq’s most famous brand La Ina, Spain’s most loved Fino (light dry sherry) along with Gonzalez Byass’s Tio Pepe....
...chairman in the 1990s and later as adviser to his son, Mauricio Jnr, the current chairman, he helped oversee the group’s expansion beyond its best known product, Tío Pepe dry fino sherry, to include Spanish brandies...
...In 1983, the socialist government of Felipe González expropriated the business empire of patriarch José María Ruiz-Mateos....
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