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The Hine company 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 ]
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The following is a list of French liqueurs and spirits that are entitled to use the designation Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) on their label. The majority are brandies and eaux-de-vie forming part of the Cognac and Armagnac appellations. Additional appellations cover apple-based cider, pommeau and Calvados, and the rums of Martinique.
The Monnet cognac production facilities were initially built from 1838 to 1848 by the SPVC and covered more than 50,000 square meters, including the chais, cooper's workshop, production workshop, and office, on rue de Pons (now avenue Paul Firino Martell) in the Gâte-Bourse suburban neighborhood of Cognac. [3]
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.
Map of the Cognac growth regions. Grande Champagne is a French district, called a cru, known for its cognac.It produces the finest cognacs in a zone of 34703 hectares, of which 17% is dedicated to production of cognac, which can be marked as Grande Champagne or Grande Fine Champagne. [1]
In 1998, together with Robert Azaryan he established the Great Valley wine and cognac company. In 2003, he founded the Tigran Arzakantsyan Charitable Foundation, which is managed by his mother, Varsenik Grigoryan. [2] In 2008, he bought one of the factories of Hine Cognac House located in France. [3]
The STI has a history dating back to its founding in 1966. [1] Following a major sectoral re-classification of listed companies by the Singapore Exchange, which saw the removal of the "industrials" category, the STI replaced the previous Straits Times Industrials Index (abbreviation: STII) and began trading on 31 August 1998 at 885.26 points, in continuation of where the STII left off.