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IBG Funding – Investor Update From CEO Jansen

Several investors in Inertia Beverage Group sent Wine Industry Insight the following email update they received from Ted Jansen, President and CEO. The email is being reproduced in its entirety with Jansen’s permission. Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 Subject: IBG – Investor Status Update Dear Investor – The purpose of my note is two-fold – […]

January 29, 2010 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

NEWSFETCH – January 28, 2010

California wine sales drop Wine Industry Searches for Good News Champagne shows signs of recovery UK: Buoyant January fuels fine wine investment optimism Vinexpo chief sees the future in Asia Imports help overall U.S. wine sales; end of ’09 better; slow recovery seen Recession puts cork in 2009 U.S. wine sales Wine fund offers investment […]

January 28, 2010 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWSFETCH – January 27, 2010

Texas Direct Shipping Law Upheld by Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals SWA Applauds Fifth Circuit Decision Upholding States’ Rights and the Three-Tier System U.S. speeds up water deliveries to San Joaquin Valley farmers Beer Distributors Laud 5th Circuit Ruling Supporting Texas Alcohol Laws California farmers get millions for overseas promotions Vinfolio seeks bankruptcy protection Constellation […]

January 27, 2010 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

IBG Closes $14 Million Round, Small Investors Riled At Terms

Inertia Beverage Group (IBG) has closed on the $14 million funding round announced in December and should have the money in the bank Jan. 26, CEO Ted Jansen told Wine Industry Insight today. “It’s been a long tough series of months,” Jansen said, “so this is a good news day for us.” Jansen said the […]

January 26, 2010 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

NEWSFETCH – January 26, 2010

Australian initiative to asses viability of its wineries Passion for wine transforms banker into vintner Calif Storms make for ‘average’ water year TTB Targets Advertising, Labeling, and Contents Compliance PDF: Allied Grapegrowers Supplement to the Unified Symposium presentation Obama to California “Water, It’s Not a Right it’s a Privilege” Presenting a wine bottle is a […]

January 26, 2010 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

NEWSFETCH – January 22, 2010

No Sanctuary in Sumptuary? Brown-Forman Threatens Sonoma Winery Smarter Shoppers Demand Personal Engagement Labor investigators file complaint against Fresno grower Idled Central Valley ethanol plant to be restarted NZ: Villa Maria partners with Ste Michelle Alcohol industry entices youth, report State frost protection water meeting a disappointment Local water control lost because of two giant […]

January 22, 2010 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

No Sanctuary in Sumptuary? Brown-Forman Threatens Sonoma Winery

Sanctuary implies shelter and Sumptuary applies to frugality laws. But the vastly entirely different definitions have provided a small Sonoma winery no protection at all from Brown-Forman’s high-powered lawyers who think the names are so similar that they will confuse consumers. Tom Meadowcroft, owner and winemaker of Meadowcroft Wines in Sonoma County says he has […]

January 22, 2010 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

NEWSFETCH – January 21, 2010

Blanche Mondavi Dies Washington pumps $13 Million to California for pest wars Unified Symposium: Wine show rises above event horizon Restaurant Assn forecasts a better year ahead Missouri winery sues to halt Iowa sales law Maniar Sells Diamond Oaks Winery to Bill Harlan UK: Portman hits back at ad attack Environmentalists sue over state attack […]

January 21, 2010 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More

Does “Trading Down” Really Exist?

“Trading Down” has become the wine industry’s simple explanation for this Great Recession’s shifting consumer wine demand, but it may not actually exist in the way many seem to think. A detailed slicing and dicing of the data shows that — at the very least — it is not a strictly price driven phenomenon, is […]

January 20, 2010 | Filed under Featured Articles | Read More

NEWSFETCH – January 20, 2010

Fresno State to shrink in size Weyrich living high while employees and brides-to-be suffer Fred Franzia: Wine’s Archie Bunker with a dose of Donald Trump State Alcohol Taxes Creep Up, But Not to Benefit of Treatment and Prevention Programs OZ: Scorcher takes toll on grape vines Cash Crunch at Vinfolio West-Side Farmers May Not Benefit […]

January 20, 2010 | Filed under News Briefs | Read More