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Jose Cuervo is the best-selling brand of tequila, [2] selling a fifth of the tequila consumed worldwide. [3] As of 2012, Jose Cuervo sells 3.5 million cases of tequila in the US annually, accounting for a third of the US tequila market. [3] Jose Cuervo is family-owned and is run today by the Beckmann family, descendants of Don José Antonio de ...
Proximo Spirits was founded in 2007 by the Beckmann family, who also owned and operated Jose Cuervo. [2] In a deal announced in March 2013, Proximo took over the Jose Cuervo distribution rights from Diageo on July 1, 2013. The deal also give Proximo Spirits control over Old Bushmills Distillery.
1800 Tequila is a Mexican brand of tequila owned by the Beckmann family, who also own the Jose Cuervo tequila brand. [1] The 100% blue agave tequila is bottled in Jalisco, Mexico. [2] 1800 is named after the year tequila was first aged in oak casks, [3] and is sold throughout the world.
Diageo acquired a 50% stake in Don Julio tequila through a joint venture with owner Jose Cuervo, for which they paid US$100 million in 2003. [58] They later obtained full ownership of the brand after agreeing to sell Bushmills Irish whiskey to Proximo Spirits , who had since acquired Jose Cuervo, in exchange for US$408 million and full ...
Juan Francisco Beckmann Vidal (born February 1940) [1] is a Mexican billionaire businessman, the owner of 70% of the José Cuervo tequila brand. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Early life
Gold mined from the Cordillera Mountain Range were brought down to the coast through the Aringay-Tonglo-Balatok gold trail, [6] [8] making commercial trade centers out of Aringay and the neighboring settlement of Agoo, [6] whose coast at the time was shaped in such a way that it was a good harbor for foreign vessels coming into Lingayen Gulf.
Jose Antonio de Cuervo, Mexican on whose land granted by King Ferdinand VI of Spain the first blue agave was planted for the production of tequila; Jose Maria Guadalupe Cuervo y Montana, son of Jose Antonio de Cuervo, first to produce tequila in Mexico; José Cura, Argentinian tenor
In order to remedy this damage in the monetary situation, Queen Isabella II issued a decree in 1857 ordering the founding of the Casa de Moneda de Manila in the Philippines in order to coin gold 1-, 2- and 4-peso coins according to Spanish standards (the 4-peso coin being 6.766 grams (0.2387 oz) of 0.875 gold).