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Thomas Hine & Co. is named after its proprietor Thomas Hine (sometimes recorded as Thomas Hone), an Englishman from Dorset, England. The company was founded in 1763. [ 1 ] Following his arrest during the French Revolution , Thomas Hine married a young woman, Françoise Elisabeth Delamain, whose father owned a cognac house in Jarnac . [ 2 ]
The company then adopted the present corporate name Ginebra San Miguel, Inc. on March 7, 2003. [ 3 ] On November 6, 2017, San Miguel Corporation announced the consolidation of its beverage businesses into San Miguel Pure Foods Company, Inc. through a share swap deal.
Jean-Baptiste Camus (1835–1901) started as an independent winegrower, distilling and selling his cognac to established cognac houses. In 1863 he decided to organize a consortium of producers to guarantee a consistent level of quality in terms of production and supplies of mature stocks of cognac, and founded ‘La Grande Marque’ as the brand under which to sell them.
The company was founded in 1869 after the purchase by Thomas H. Handy of the Sazerac Coffee House, a bar and importer of a brand of cognac named Sazerac de Forge. [3] The coffee house itself had been established in 1850. [5] After its purchase, Handy's company began to acquire and market more brands of liquor.
The name Rémy Martin comes from the company founder, born in 1695 near Rouillac in southwestern France. A vintner by trade, in 1724 he created a cognac trading house. On his death in 1773, the business passed to his grandson, also named Rémy. [6] In 1841, Paul-Emile-Rémy Martin assumed control and oversaw great growth.
It is the oldest of the "big four" cognac houses (the others are Hennessy, Rémy Martin and Courvoisier), who together produce most of the world's cognac. [1] Formerly owned by the Seagram spirits empire, it is now part of the Martell Mumm Perrier-Jouët (MMPJ) subsidiary of the French wines and spirits conglomerate Pernod Ricard. [2]
Renault was the first cognac maker to ship his cognac in bottles (instead of barrels) which guaranteed the preservation of original taste and uniform quality. [ 1 ] The corporation has merged with Castillon and Bisquit Dubouché, and is based at Rouillac, Charente , a small village near Château de Lignères .
Heublein Inc. (also known as Heublein Spirits) was an American producer and distributor of alcoholic beverages and food throughout the 20th century. During the 1960s and 1970s its stock was regarded as one of the most stable financial investments, earning it inclusion in the Nifty Fifty.