Constellation Brands Inc.

Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ and STZ.B), headquartered in Fairport, New York, is a leading international producer and marketer of beverage alcohol brands with a broad portfolio across the wine, imported beer and spirits categories. Constellation is the largest wine company in the world; the largest multi-category supplier of beverage alcohol in the United States; a leading producer and exporter of wine from Australia and New Zealand; and both a major producer and independent drinks wholesaler in the United Kingdom. With over 250 beverage alcohol brands marketed in nearly 150 countries, Constellation has unequalled breadth, offering consumers their beverage of choice, no matter what the occasion. Since its founding in 1945 as a producer and marketer of wine products, the company has grown through a combination of organic growth and acquisitions.

Globally, Constellation Brands is the largest wine producing company by volume. We are also the third largest U.S. beverage alcohol company based upon retail sales in the food and drug channels. Today, Constellation Brands has gross sales of more than $4.6 billion annually. It operates more than 40 production facilities, has 10,000 employees worldwide and sells or markets products in North America, Canada, South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

Business Structure

Constellation Wines (World Wide Wines)
Constellation Wines is the world's largest wine business, producing, marketing and selling a broad portfolio of wines throughout the world. Within Constellation Wines are six companies, five are brand owners producing, marketing and selling their own brands in their home countries and one is a wine-focused sales and marketing trading company that sells the products beyond the home country borders. The brand owning companies also distribute sister company products in their home countries.
Constellation Wines U.S.
Constellation Wines U.S., which encompasses Centerra Wine Company, Icon Estates, North Lake Wines and Pacific Wine Partners, provides a common platform of services including channel management, finance, operations, human resources and legal services to the four companies.
Centerra Wine Company
Centerra Wine Company, headquartered in Canandaigua, New York, is a sales and marketing company focusing on the popular and premium wine category with more than 20 well-known brands. Leading brands include Alice White, Arbor Mist, Cook's, Covey Run, Inglenook, Monkey Bay, Robert Mondavi Private Selection, Talus Collection, and Woodbridge by Robert Mondavi.
Icon Estates
Icon Estates, based in Napa Valley, California, is Constellation's fine wine company. The Icon Estates portfolio of wines with a reason for being includes Franciscan Oakville Estate, Mount Veeder Winery, Robert Mondavi Winery, Simi Winery, Estancia Estates and Ravenswood wineries in California; Columbia Winery in Washington State; Ruffino Estates of Italy; Drylands and Kim Crawford in Marlborough, New Zealand; Tintara in McLaren Vale, Australia; Veramonte in Chile's Casablanca Valley; and Inniskillin and Jackson-Triggs from Canada.
North Lake Wines
As a sales and marketing company also headquartered in Canandaigua, New York, the company has a portfolio of over 35 classic wine brands. Leading brands for North Lake Wines include Kelly's Revenge, Farallon, Marcus James, Paul Masson table wines, Taylor California Cellars, and Viņa Santa Carolina.
Pacific Wine Partners
Headquartered in Monterey County, California, Pacific Wine Partners is a leading producer of premium California wines and an importer of wines from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Additionally, Pacific Wine Partners produces several top California brands including Blackstone, Black Box, and Hayman & Hill and R.H. Phillips; and is the U.S. importer for Banrock Station, Hardys, Leasingham, Barossa Valley Estate, and Chateau Reynella from Australia; Nobilo from New Zealand; and Kumala from South Africa.
Vincor Canada
Vincor Canada, headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, outside of Toronto, is Canada's largest producer, marketer distributor or wine. Vincor's brand portfolio includes premium New World wines, which are complemented by a variety of popular priced wines, wine kits and refreshment products. Brands in Vincor's portfolio include Jackson-Triggs, Inniskillin, Hawthorne-Mountain, Kim Crawford, Sumac Ridge and Sawmill Creek. Vincor Canada also owns 160 Wine Rack retails stores in Ontario.
Constellation Europe
Constellation Europe, headquartered in Guildford, England, is one of the largest premium drinks companies in Europe and has a strong portfolio of brands from the wine, cider, fortified wine and wine-style drinks. Constellation Europe's wholesale division, Matthew Clark, is the premier wholesaler serving a full range of drinks and business building services to pubs, clubs, hotels and restaurants throughout the UK. Brands in the portfolio include Hardys, Kumala, Turner Road, Nobilo and Stowells wine brands; Blackthorn, Gaymer's Olde English and Diamond White ciders; Stone's Ginger Wine and Babycham.
Hardy Wine Company
Located in Reynella, South Australia, Hardy Wine Company is Australia's largest wine producer with a broad geographic spread of vineyard and winery facilities across Australia's major wine regions. The group has a comprehensive portfolio of brands covering a diverse range of styles and price points that are distributed through a global network of sales and marketing offices. Some of the major brands within this portfolio include Hardys, Banrock Station, Leasingham, Houghton, Tintara, Stonehaven, Barossa Valley Estate, Amberley and Goundrey Wines.
Nobilo Wine Group
Located in Auckland, New Zealand, Nobilo is New Zealand's second largest wine producer and an importer of brands from Australia, Italy and South Africa. The Nobilo Wine Group portfolio in New Zealand includes the New Zealand brands Nobilo, Selaks, Kim Crawford Wines and Drylands as well as a number of Hardy Wine Company's Australian brands including Hardys and Banrock Station. Nobilo also exports key brands primarily to Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia.
  Constellation Wines International
Constellation Wines International, a sales and marketing trading company, ensures a wide global distribution of our brands. This branch is responsible for marketing and selling the Constellation Wine portfolio in Canada, Japan, Asia, Pacific, Middle East, Sub-Continent, Africa, Latin America and Caribbean.
Barton, Inc.
Barton Incorporated is a division of Constellation Brands, a leading international producer and marketer of beverage alcohol brands with a broad portfolio across the wine, imported beer and spirits categories. Constellation Beers & Spirits imports and markets some of the world's best beer brands into the United States, and is one of the largest producers and marketers of distilled spirits in the United States
Barton Beers
Barton Beers, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, represents six of the top 20 imported beers, including #1 import Corona Extra. Barton Beers imports the Modelo portfolio including Corona Extra, Corona Light, Modelo Especial, Pacifico and Negra Modelo in the western United States. The Mexican portfolio is brewed and bottled by the Grupo Modelo Brewery in Mexico. The beer portfolio also includes St. Pauli Girl Lager, Special Dark and Non-Alcohol beers brewed and bottled by the St. Pauli Brauerei in Bremen, Germany and the number one imported Chinese beer in the United States, Tsingtao brewed and bottled by the Tsingtao Brewery in China.
Barton Brands
As the nation's third-largest spirits supplier, Barton Brands operates seven production facilities in North America - five in the United States and two in Canada. Known for their successful new product introductions and line extensions such as 99 Oranges, 99 Black Cherries, Caravella Limoncello, Chi-Chi's, Mr. Boston and Fleischmann's. Barton Brand's portfolio also includes Black Velvet Whisky, which has grown to be one of the top selling Canadian Whiskies in the United States due largely to the revitalization efforts that began when the brand was acquired in 1999. Most recently, Barton Brands has launched 1792, a small-batch bourbon whiskey named for the year the commonwealth of Kentucky entered the Union, Cocktails by Jenn, a range of ready-mixed designer cocktails, and super-premium Effen Vodka.
To learn more about Constellation Brands, Inc. and our brands and companies, visit our website at www.cbrands.com.


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