{"id":78124,"date":"2012-04-20T21:34:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T02:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/?p=78124"},"modified":"2012-04-20T21:34:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T02:34:33","slug":"moet-hennessy-posts-record-organic-growth-in-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/20\/moet-hennessy-posts-record-organic-growth-in-first-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo\u00ebt Hennessy Posts Record Organic Growth In First Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mo\u00ebt Hennessy saw global sales jump 16% on an organic basis &#8211; a record performance in the first quarter of 2012, reaching \u20ac926 million ($1.2b). The company\u2019s core Champagne and Cognac businesses drove growth during the period. The Champagne stable (up 5% by volume) benefited from strong sales at the prestige level.<\/p>\n<p>Mo\u00ebt &amp; Chandon continues to lead the U.S. Champagne segment, advanced by 1% to 410,000 cases (excluding Dom Perignon); fellow bubbly Veuve Clicquot was flat by volume at 365,000 cases.<\/p>\n<p>This year Mo\u00ebt &amp; Chandon will abandoning its well-known White Star non-vintage offering in U.S. and replace it with a newer Mo\u00ebt Imp\u00e9rial variant, which has been gradually transitioning into the brand\u2019s primary global non-vintage offering since 2007. Bucking the increasing popularity of sweet wines in the U.S., Mo\u00ebt Imp\u00e9rial is a drier style with 30%\u201340% Pinot Noir, 30%\u201340% Pinot Meunier and 20%\u201330% Chardonnay.<\/p>\n<p>Liz Palmer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Source: Shaken News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Mo\u00ebt Hennessy saw global sales jump 16% on an organic basis &#8211; a record performance in the first quarter of 2012, reaching \u20ac926 million ($1.2b). The company\u2019s core Champagne and Cognac businesses drove growth during the period. The Champagne stable (up 5% by volume) benefited from strong sales at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}