Black Tower wine has seen a 30% rise in sales of their Fruity White in stores nationwide during the first weeks of 2021 as shoppers turn to the brands they trust on taste and value for money amid the third national lockdown.
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Subscriber only There s one thing that really gives me the pip: entitled white guys (and women) jumping up and down because their public holiday celebrating good ancestral fortune is threatened by a growing majority who are a bit more compassionate, a bit less afraid of modernity and who appreciate that inclusiveness doesn t really seem the appropriate word for a celebration of one mob s compulsory acquisition of another s land. Paradoxically, confiscation of land and lifestyle isn t even the worst bit of die-hard 26th of January types, it s that even after nearly 250 years some people still think it s a great thing to celebrate, right in the face of the mob they pinched everything from.
Bingo s numbers come up on private equity radar
The company started off with four trucks, 100 skip bins and six staff in 2005 and through hard work and acquisitions transformed into a $2.6 billion player.
Bingo s two largest shareholders, Daniel Tartak and Ian Malouf.
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It s the mouse that eventually roared. A small skip bin company with just four trucks and 100 bins was acquired in 2005 in Sydney by the Tartak family for less than $1 million.
It has transformed into substantial waste management group Bingo Industries, a $2 billion-plus player with more than 300 trucks on the road, and now in the sights of a private equity consortium led by CPE Capital which has made a conditional and non-binding buyout bid pitched at $3.50 per share. The buyout proposal gives Bingo an enterprise value of $2.6 billion.
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The Drinks Business
17 December 2020 By Lauren Eads
Lockdown has given âalternativeâ wine packaging an opportunity to thrive in the UK, with bag-in-box sales in particular boosted by an increase in at-home drinking. But the industry needs to take heed of companies like Tesla if it is to challenge the glass bottle, believes one ambitious start-up looking to capture the next generation of wine drinkers.
Santiago Navarro, co-founder of Garçon Wines
Generally speaking, consumers have become more âopen-mindedâ about alternative wine packaging formats over the past three years, with lockdown boosting this trend, says Wine Intelligence CEO Richard Halstead, calling the UK a âhighly promising marketâ in terms of alternative packaging opportunities.